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Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2021
Applicants:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);

Inventors:

Angelo De Caro, Zürich, CH;

Andrew Miller, Champaign, IL (US);

Amit Agarwal, Champaign, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/3676 (2013.01); G06Q 20/0658 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05);
Abstract

A method for a fully distributed privacy-preserving multi-lateral netting between parties is disclosed. The method comprising collecting pending transactions between at least a part of the parties, publishing a commitment of pending transactions to a bulletin board, secretly sharing de-commitments among the parties, and publishing, by each party, its determined liquidity status, to the bulletin board. Furthermore, the method comprises upon determining a failure in the publishing of any liquidity status, performing the following MPC by determining whether all pending transactions are settable maintaining positive liquidity for each party, and upon determining a failure in the determining, for each party, whether all pending transactions are nettable determining an optimized subset of transactions that are nettable without violating liquidity requirements for each party.


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