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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 19, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Fenglian Xu, Hampshire, GB;

Jake Turner, Ferndown, GB;

Liam Grace, Eastleigh, GB;

Anastasia Paterson, Guildford, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/102 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/1042 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is disclosed including receiving a request for changing a privilege of a peer of the public blockchain network, in response to receiving the request for changing the privilege, automatically submitting a trust query to a trust verification entity, receiving from the trust verification entity, a trust score associated with the peer, comparing the received trust score to a pre-determined threshold, determining, based on the comparison, that the trust score is greater than the pre-determined threshold, in response to determining that the trust score is greater than the pre-determined threshold, automatically voting that the request be granted, receiving votes of other privileged peers of the public blockchain network, determining that a number of the votes for granting the request is sufficient to grant the request, and in response to determining that the number of votes is sufficient, automatically executing the requested changing of the privilege of the peer.


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