U.S. Patent 10740325 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on August 11, 2020 and is entitled “System and method for deleting node in blockchain network.” The first named inventor is Ning Xia of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for deleting a node in a blockchain network are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining, by a first consensus node of the blockchain network, a transaction comprising a request for deleting a second consensus node of the blockchain network; in response to that consensus verification of the transaction succeeds, executing the transaction and sequentially numbering in a node list a plurality of remaining consensus nodes of the blockchain network excluding the second consensus node; and performing view change for the remaining consensus nodes to participate in future consensus verification. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 16, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/715963 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10740325. The assistant examiner was Hubert Cheung.

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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