U.S. Patent 10664469 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on May 26, 2020 and is entitled “Accelerating transaction deliveries in blockchain networks using acceleration nodes.” The first named inventor is Ning Xia of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Using a blockchain transaction acceleration system, a first transaction generated by a first node is sent to an acceleration node in a blockchain, where the first transaction is sent to the acceleration node instead of being sent directly to a second node that is the intended recipient of the first transaction, and where the first node, the second node, and the acceleration node are different nodes. The blockchain transaction acceleration system forwards the transaction from the acceleration node to the second node. The blockchain transaction acceleration system executes the transaction by the second node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 23, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/421377 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10664469. The primary examiner was Mahesh H Dwivedi.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1834 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 7 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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