U.S. Patent 10783190 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on September 22, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based smart contract invocation method and apparatus, and electronic device.” The first named inventor is Honglin Qiu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Techniques for invocating a smart contract are described. One example method includes receiving a target transaction that is used to initiate an invocation of a smart contract, wherein the target transaction comprises invocation data, and wherein the invocation data comprises a data digest associated with target data stored in a third-party storage system interconnected with a blockchain; querying the target data from the third-party storage system; receiving a query result returned by the third-party storage system, wherein the query result comprises encrypted target data; obtaining a key to decrypt the encrypted target data to generate decrypted target data; performing a content verification on the decrypted target data; determining that the content verification succeeds; invoking the smart contract to perform a smart contract computation on the invocation data; and storing a computation result in a distributed database associated with the blockchain after the smart contract computation is completed. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 26, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/453603 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10783190. The primary examiner was Robert Stevens.

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 1 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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