U.S. Patent 10795882 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on October 06, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based data compression and searching.” The first named inventor is Yanpeng Li of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer-implemented method includes: compressing, by a service party, target data to be stored according to a preset compression template; assembling the compressed target data and a unique identifier of the preset compression template into storage transaction data; and transmitting the storage transaction data to a node device on a blockchain, so that the node device, in response to the storage transaction data, searches for a smart contract published on the blockchain, in which the smart contract corresponds to the unique identifier, invokes the preset compression template to determine that a data format of the target data conforms to a data format specified by the preset compression template, and in response to determining that the data format of the target data conforms to the data format specified by the preset compression template, stores the compressed target data. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 10, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/786794 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10795882. The primary examiner was Angelica Ruiz.

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 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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