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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2019
Cypherium Blockchain Inc., New York, NY (US);
Yangrui Guo, Long Island City, NY (US);
Qiandong Yang, Shenzhen, CN;
Hui Zhou, Hong Kong, CN;
Weiqiang Lu, Shenzhen, CN;
Sheng Zeng, Shenzhen, CN;
Liang Yang, Shenzhen, CN;
Sicong Zhuang, Shenzhen, CN;
Cypherium Blockchain Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments provide a distributed transaction system including a group of validator nodes that are known to each other in a network but are indistinguishable to other network nodes. The validator nodes form a Committee including a Leader node and one or more Associate nodes. The Committee may be dynamically changed, such that new network nodes may be added to the Committee or may replace existing validator nodes. The Associate nodes also may coordinate with each other to select a new Leader node. The disclosed embodiments reduce the distributed system's reliance on the stability of any particular node(s) in the network, as the validator nodes in the Committee may be changed at a sufficient frequency to remove unreliable, unavailable, or otherwise untrusted nodes. Further, the disclosed embodiments provide a scheme that helps ensure the Leader node, as well as the other Committee members, functions properly.