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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:
May. 19, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Nchain Licensing Ag, Zug, CH;

Inventors:

Steven Coughlan, London, GB;

Ambrose Sraha, London, GB;

Dulan Weerasin-Ha, London, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/3825 (2013.01); G06Q 20/065 (2013.01); G06Q 20/389 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a first aspect, the present disclosure proposes methods, devices and systems for implementing a payment service for enabling transactions associated with a client to be written into, or stored in a distributed ledger, i.e. a blockchain. The payment service is implemented as an API to which one or more clients have access to processing digital asset payments pertaining to a respective client. In a first aspect includes obtaining mining fee quotes from a plurality of miners for a client and processing a request for submitting a transaction to the blockchain based on a selected fee quote. In a second aspect, the present disclosure proposes methods, devices and systems for requesting a transaction associated with a digital asset payment to be mined in a blockchain, based on a digital asset payment between a client (payer) and a customer (payee) of the client. The request being associated by a selected fee quote and/or service level associated with the selected fee quote among the received fee quotes in the above aspect. In a third aspect the method includes creating, processing and mining a blockchain transaction associated with a client by a miner, based on the miner satisfying the selected fee quote from the client, as mentioned in the above aspect.


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