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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Konstantinos Christidis, Durham, NC (US);
Anna D. Derbakova, Durham, NC (US);
Nitin Gaur, Austin, TX (US);
Praveen Jayachandran, Bangalore, IN;
Srinivasan Muralidharan, Resaerch Triangle Park, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to the enforcement of a smart contract execution hierarchy on a blockchain. A method includes receiving a submission of a first smart contract to be appended to a blockchain, comparing a priority value of the first smart contract to a priority value of a second smart contract previously appended to the blockchain, determining based on the comparison that the first smart contract has a lower priority than the second smart contract, comparing the terms of the first smart contract to the terms of the second smart contract, determining at least one of an overlap and a conflict between the terms of the first smart contract and the terms of the second smart contract, resolving any terms of the first smart contract that are determined to overlap or conflict with the terms of the second smart contract, and appending the resolved first smart contract to the blockchain.