U.S. Patent 10649859 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on May 12, 2020 and is entitled “Performing a recovery process for a network node in a distributed system.” The first named inventor is Peng Lin of Shandong, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method for performing a recovery process of a network node of a blockchain network includes broadcasting a state request message by the network node to the other network nodes of the blockchain network to recover a target transaction of a target sequence number, receiving state reply messages that each includes a sequence number from the other network nodes, identifying the target sequence number based on the sequence numbers in the state reply messages, sending a requesting message to the other network nodes to request an ECHO message from each of the other network nodes, determining a number of valid ECHO messages that are sent by the other network nodes, recovering the target transaction based on the number of valid ECHO messages, and sending a message to the other network nodes indicating that the network node has been recovered. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 24, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/421922 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10649859. The primary examiner was Etienne P Leroux.

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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