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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Srinath Setty, Redmond, WA (US);
Lidong Zhou, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael Lowell Roberts, Seattle, WA (US);
Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Redmond, WA (US);
Soumya Basu, Ithaca, NY (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); H04L 63/123 (2013.01); H04L 63/14 (2013.01); H04L 2209/38 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods described herein relate to secure, efficient, confidential, and/or outsourced blockchain networks, which can enable a group of mutually distrusting participants to securely share state and then agree on a linear history of operations on that shared state.