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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:
Jun. 21, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Pengfei Wu, Shanghai, CN;

Zhi Ying, Shanghai, CN;

Kun Wang, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 67/1061 (2022.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1065 (2013.01); G06F 16/1834 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 2209/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a multi-cloud computing environment comprising a plurality of cloud platforms with each cloud platform comprising one or more nodes, a method maintains at a given one of the nodes in the multi-cloud computing environment a blockchain instance in accordance with a decentralized blockchain network comprised of at least a subset of the nodes in the multi-cloud computing environment wherein each of the subset of nodes locally maintain a blockchain instance. Further, the method maintains at the given one of the nodes a global state database which is locally synchronized with the locally maintained blockchain instance and stores identifying information about nodes in the multi-cloud computing environment, wherein the identifying information comprises information on how to find one or more of the nodes.


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