U.S. Patent 10719377 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on July 21, 2020 and is entitled “System and method for blockchain-based notification.” The first named inventor is Rubing Shi of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for blockchain-based notification are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining information in a block of a blockchain to determine a current state of a workflow, wherein a blockchain contract deployed in the blockchain is executable to update the current state among one or more states of the workflow; updating a locally-maintained state machine based on the determined current state; and in response to determining that the updated state machine corresponds to one of the one or more states, transmitting a notification message to one or more subscribers subscribing to the one state. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 20, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/722405 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10719377. The primary examiner was Umut Onat.

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 6 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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