U.S. Patent 11212371 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on December 28, 2021 and is entitled “Operation request allocation methods, apparatuses, and devices.” The first named inventor is Yanpeng Li of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Embodiments of the present specification disclose operation request allocation methods, apparatuses, and devices. One method includes: obtaining, by a server, an operation request sent by a client device for performing an operation associated with a blockchain; obtaining, by the server, attribute information of a user of the client device; determining, by the server, a node condition selected by the user based on the attribute information; determining, by the server based on the node condition, a target node from a set of nodes that have persistently connected to the server; and assigning the operation request to the target node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 29, 2021  as U.S. Patent Application 17/162801 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11212371. The primary examiner was Michael A Keller.

Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1031 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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