U.S. Patent 10684925 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on June 16, 2020 and is entitled “Method for view switching in a blockchain network.” The first named inventor is Qiang Tang of Wuhan, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Implementations of the present solution disclose a method for triggering view switching in a blockchain without requiring a separate consensus to be executed by the backup nodes. The blockchain primary node receives a trigger that indicates a view switching condition. Then the primary node selects a successor node, and initiates a view switch, where the successor node will act as a new primary node in the next view. The new primary node can then initiate a consensus in the next view. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 13, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/440782 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10684925. The primary examiner was Amine Riad.

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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