U.S. Patent 10860710 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on December 08, 2020 and is entitled “Processing and storing blockchain data under a trusted execution environment.” The first named inventor is Huabing Du of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing blockchain data under a trusted execution environment (TEE). One of the methods includes receiving, by a blockchain node, a request to execute one or more software instructions in a TEE executing on the blockchain node; determining, by a virtual machine in the TEE, data associated with one or more blockchain accounts to execute the one or more software instructions based on the request; traversing, by the virtual machine, an internal cache hash table stored in the TEE to determine whether the data are included in the internal cache hash table; and in response to determining that the data is included in the internal cache hash table, executing, by the virtual machine, the one or more software instructions by retrieving the data from the internal cache hash table. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 16, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/902864 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10860710. The primary examiner was Teshome Hailu.

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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