U.S. Patent 10833846 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on November 10, 2020 and is entitled “Shared blockchain data storage based on error correction coding in trusted execution environments.” The first named inventor is Haizhen Zhuo of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing blockchain data. One of the methods includes receiving a request from a blockchain node of the blockchain network to execute one or more software instructions in a trusted execution environment (TEE). One or more blocks infrequently accessed for executing the one or more software instructions are determined. Error correction coding of the one or more blocks in the TEE is performed to generate one or more encoded blocks. Each of the one or more encoded blocks are divided into a plurality of datasets based on the one or more software instructions. The plurality of datasets and a data storage arrangement are sent to blockchain network nodes, where the data storage arrangement indicates at least one of the plurality of datasets to be stored by each of the blockchain nodes. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 12, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/712828 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10833846. The primary examiner was David J Pearson.

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 2 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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