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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Optum, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Inventors:
Jianping Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Soleh Udin Al Ayubi, Newton, MA (US);
Rick A. Hamilton, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Michael N. Jacobs, Jordan, MN (US);
Assignee:
Optum, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 16/2365 (2019.01);
Abstract
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for creating and using heterogeneous pools of validators to implement blockchain consensus. The specialized validators can be segmented and pooled based on their roles and functionalities in the consensus mechanism.