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Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026

Filed:

May. 24, 2023
Applicant:

Block, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Daniel Buchner, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0884 (2013.01);
Abstract

Decentralized trust establishment using sentiment documents is described. In an implementation, a decentralized network of nodes is generated. A first entity is associated with a select node of the nodes. A user interface is presented including one or more options at an edge device of the first entity. The options support inputs specifying identification of a second entity, sentiment regarding the second entity, and supporting information describing why the sentiment is expressed towards the second entity. A plurality of sentiment documents are collected, respectively, from the plurality of nodes of the decentralized network. A sentiment is determined as associated with an entity by processing the plurality of sentiment documents. The determined sentiment is output.


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