Distributed hash table based blockchain architecture for resource constrained environments
US12058271B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 27, 2019 |
| Grant date | Aug 6, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 27, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2209/56
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A blockchain architecture operating over a skip graph-based P2P overlay to improve a communication and storage efficiency, a convergence to centralization, and consistency problems of existing blockchain solutions is provided. The blockchain architecture provides addressable peers, blocks, and transactions within a network; making the addressable peers, the blocks and transactions efficiently accessible in an on-demand manner by peers using a skip graph lookup operation where no peer is required to store an entire blockchain, and stores a replicated subset of the blocks and transactions and answers queries of other peer on the blocks and transactions. The blockchain architecture discloses a fair blockchain with a uniform chance for participating peers to be involved in a consensus protocol regardless of an influence of the participating peers in a system with an improved consistency governing a deterministic fork-resolving policy.
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