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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:
Jan. 31, 2023

Filed:

May. 31, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Rishi Saket, Bangalore, IN;

Pankaj S. Dayama, Bangalore, IN;

Nitin Singh, Bangalore, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3213 (2013.01); H04L 9/0816 (2013.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01); H04L 63/0838 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05);
Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, from an executing client, a blockchain transaction comprising an anonymous rating related to an authorizing client, a merkle tree root node value, a proof, and a nullifier, and in response, executing, by a smart contract, a valid historical value assert call on a lookback key storing the merkle tree root node value, verifying, through a valid historical value assert call, that the merkle tree root node value is a current or previous value of the merkle tree root node value, verifying the proof with the merkle tree root node value and the nullifier, adding the anonymous rating to a shared ledger, marking the nullifier as used, and storing the marked nullifier to the shared ledger.


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