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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:
Dec. 20, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Ripple Labs Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Ethan MacBrough, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Ripple Labs Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/18 (2006.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 11/28 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/182 (2013.01); G06F 11/187 (2013.01); G06F 11/28 (2013.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); H04L 9/3236 (2013.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01); H04L 63/00 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05);
Abstract

Systems and techniques are provided for Byzantine agreement in open networks. An indication to change a validation network for an open network from a current validation network to a next validation network may be broadcast. An agreement to change to the validation network to the next validation network may be. An instance of external validity multi-valued Byzantine agreement may be run to determine a continuing sequence number to be used by the next validation network based on the sequence numbers of amendments applied to decentralized database copies stored node computing devices of the open network. The next validation network may be switched to as the validation network for the open network after the continuing sequence number is determined. An amendment validated by the next validation network may be applied to a decentralized database copy. The amendment may include a sequence number that is higher than the continuing sequence number.


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