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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Francis Mcnamee, Newry, GB;
Paula May Tomaszko, Belfast, GB;
Andrew Jack Bell, Belfast, GB;
Robert Kerr, Cambridge, GB;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A node in a blockchain network may invoke a process comprising receiving one or more operations for inclusion in a block, receiving a previous Merkle root created from previously determined account dispositions from a previous block, resolving the one or more operations based on the previous account dispositions to determine one or more current account dispositions, creating a current Merkle root for the one or more current account dispositions, and hashing current data for the current block, the data comprising the current Merkel root and the previous Merkle root to generate an account disposition block.