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Patent No.:

US 12489649 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2024

Method and apparatus for providing secure information to a decentralized computing environment

Applicant:

Smartcontract Chainlink Limited Sezc, Grand Cayman, KY;

Inventors:

Lorenz Breidenbach, Grand Cayman, KY;

Christian Cachin, Grand Cayman, KY;

Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Grand Cayman, KY;

Assignee:

SmartContract Chainlink Limited SEZC, Grand Cayman, KY;

Attorneys:

Potomac Law Group, PLLC

Marc S. Kaufman

Primary Examiner:

Alexander Khong

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/2458 (2019.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/50 (2022.05); G06F 16/2471 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01);
Abstract

A system and method in which a network of offchain oracle nodes are used to provide dynamic information to consuming smart contracts in a decentralized computing environment. The off-chain oracle network and a corresponding protocol reduces the likelihood of damage from rogue oracles acting in concert. Periodically, the oracle nodes, jointly and in concert, run the protocol to sign a report containing observations from many of the oracles in the network. The report is transmitted to a smart contract C running on a DLT. The smart contract C can validate the report, pay each oracle node that contributed an observation to the report and expose the median, or other calculated value, of the reported values to the on-chain consuming smart contracts.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Breidenbach, Lorenz. (2025). Method and apparatus for providing secure information to a decentralized computing environment (U.S. Patent No. 12489649). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12489649

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