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Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 12, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeremy R. Fox, Georgetown, TX (US);

Liam R. Harpur, Skerries, IE;

Chris Kau, Mountain View, CA (US);

John Rice, Tramore, IE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 2209/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a transaction request for a first transaction into a blockchain network, determining one or more potentially linked transactions subsequent to the first transaction, determining one or more nodes required for the first transaction and the one or more potentially linked transactions, determining an availability for the one or more nodes, for example, by analyzing social network usage at the respective nodes, and determining, from the availability of the one or more nodes, a preferred time to initiate the first transaction.


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