U.S. Patent 10657151 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on May 19, 2020 and is entitled “Method and apparatus for communication between blockchain nodes.” The first named inventor is Honglin Qiu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A communication request sent by a second node in a blockchain network is received by a first node in the blockchain network. Whether the second node has a mapping relationship with the first node is determined by the first node. A communication connection to the second node is established by the first node in response to determining that the second node has a mapping relationship with the first node. Establishment of a communication connection to the second node is refused by the first node in response to determining that the second node does not have a mapping relationship with the first node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 19, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/040376 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10657151. The primary examiner was Nicholas P Celani.

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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