U.S. Patent 10762056 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on September 01, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based data processing method and device.” The first named inventor is Honglin Qiu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Techniques for processing blockchain data are described. A node in a blockchain network receives service data generated by a first service, wherein the service data comprises a data structure having a field a value of which indicates that the first service is associated with a first processing level. The node stores, based on the value of the field, the service data in a first data processing queue selected from a plurality of data processing queues, wherein the first data processing queue corresponds to the first processing level, and each of the plurality of data processing queues corresponds to a different processing level. The node generates a new block that stores the service data read from the first data processing queue, and additional service data read from one or more of the plurality of data processing queues. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 27, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/586051 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10762056. The primary examiner was Kimberly L Wilson.

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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