U.S. Patent 11188961 was awarded to Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. on November 30, 2021 and is entitled “Service execution method and device.” The first named inventor is Qiang Tang of Wuhan, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

This specification describes techniques for executing services. One example method includes receiving, by a service platform, a qualification acquisition request from a first end-user device of several end-user devices that participate in a service qualification activity corresponding to a service; returning a qualification acquisition rule and a result generation rule that are based on the qualification acquisition request to the first end-user device to enable the first end-user device to generate a to-be-verified result corresponding to the result generation rule; in response to a determination that the service satisfies the predetermined condition, obtaining the blockchain corresponding to the service from at least one end-user device of the plurality of end-user devices; selecting, from the blockchain, at least one block that satisfies the qualification acquisition rule; and executing the service for a user that corresponds to a user identifier included in the at least one block. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 25, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/664020 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11188961. The assistant examiner was Nilesh B Khatri.

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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