U.S. Patent 10664305 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on May 26, 2020 and is entitled “Method and apparatus for writing service data into block chain and method for determining service subset.” The first named inventor is Honglin Qiu of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for adding transaction data into a blockchain are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining transaction data to be added into the blockchain, assigning the transaction data into transaction subsets, and executing the transaction subsets in parallel, and storing results of the execution into the blockchain. Pieces of the transaction data having at least one of: a same transaction type or an overlapping scope of data change are assigned into a same transaction subset, and pieces of the transaction data with different transaction types and with no overlapping scope of data change are assigned into different transaction subsets. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 17, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/745519 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10664305. The primary examiner was Bing Zhao.

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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