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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:
Aug. 09, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2017
Applicant:

Nchain Holdings Limited, St. John's, AG;

Inventors:

Craig Steven Wright, London, GB;

Stephane Savanah, London, GB;

Assignee:

nChain Holdings Limited, St. John's, AG;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/12 (2012.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/1235 (2013.01); G06Q 20/0658 (2013.01); G06Q 20/389 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3829 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 9/3073 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/00 (2013.01); H04L 2209/38 (2013.01); H04L 2209/56 (2013.01); H04L 2209/603 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure relates to a blockchain-implemented system and method of controlling the transmission and/or distribution of digital content. A first user is associated with a deposit quantity of cryptocurrency at a common address. A first node associated with the first user sends a request to the second node to provide an episode of digital content from a series of digital content; determines a payment transaction to transfer a payment quantity of cryptocurrency to the second user, wherein the payment quantity is based on a quantity of episodes of digital content in the series; and signs and sends the payment transaction to a second node. The second node associated with the second user: receives the request and the payment transaction; verifies the payment transaction; and based on the result of verifying: provides access to the episode of digital content to be available to the first node; and co-signs and sends the payment transaction to a distributed ledger.


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