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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2020
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Petr Novotny, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Qi Zhang, Elmsford, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); H04L 67/01 (2022.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1837 (2019.01); G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 67/01 (2022.05); H04L 9/50 (2022.05);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for loading balancing among blockchain peers by using a probing transaction from a client node to identify a latency of each blockchain peer. The client node can then select which blockchain peers to use based on the identified latencies.