U.S. Patent 10615964 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on April 07, 2020 and is entitled “Cross-blockchain interaction method, apparatus, system, and electronic device.” The first named inventor is Honglin Qiu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A subscription request initiated by a blockchain node associated with a first blockchain is received by a cross-blockchain interaction end, where the subscription request includes a subscription condition. A message that satisfies the subscription condition is obtained by the cross-blockchain interaction end and from a publishing client that corresponds to a second blockchain. The message is sent to a subscribing client that corresponds to the blockchain node a from the cross-blockchain interaction end, where the blockchain node calls a first smart contract associated with the first blockchain to trigger a corresponding contract operation based on the message. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 03, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/374273 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10615964. The primary examiner was Peter C Shaw.

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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