U.S. Patent 10594489 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on March 17, 2020 and is entitled “Method and device for processing service request.” The first named inventor is Ning Li of Guangdong, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Implementations of the present application disclose a method and device for processing a service request. If a service request passes consensus verification, each consensus node stores a digest of service data in a blockchain, instead of storing the service data in the blockchain. As such, the digest of the service data is stored in the trustworthy blockchain, and authenticity of the service data can still be verified. In addition, the service data is not stored in the blockchain so that the service data cannot be obtained by a blockchain node irrelevant to the target service. Therefore, each consensus node does not need to consume computing resources to encrypt the service data any more, thereby improving efficiency of performing consensus verification on the service request by each consensus node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 10, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/507822 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10594489. The primary examiner was Ponnoreay Pich.

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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