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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:
Jul. 02, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2019
Applicant:

Nchain Licensing Ag, Zug, CH;

Inventors:

Dean Kramer, London, GB;

Martin Sewell, London, GB;

Bassem Ammar, Lancaster, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); G06Q 20/22 (2012.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2013.01); G06F 9/3836 (2013.01); G06F 16/2246 (2019.01); G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 16/278 (2019.01); G06F 16/9027 (2019.01); G06Q 20/065 (2013.01); G06Q 20/0658 (2013.01); G06Q 20/223 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3674 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3678 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3827 (2013.01); H04L 9/0618 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05); H04L 2209/56 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method of partitioning a blockchain network into shards is disclosed. The method comprises identifying a parent blockchain transaction, the parent transaction defined by an output which corresponds to an input of a child blockchain transaction, and allocating the parent transaction and the child transaction to the same shard.


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