U.S. Patent 10764032 was awarded to Alibaba Group Holding Limited on September 01, 2020 and is entitled “System and method for managing user interactions with a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Shifeng Wang of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for obtaining blockchain information. One of the methods includes: receiving a user input in a command line interface (CLI), wherein the user input comprises a reference to one or more configurations and a reference to a blockchain; determining, by a command manager based on the user input, a blockchain-related operation and a command plug-in associated with the blockchain-related operation; generating, by the determined command plug-in, a command based on the determined operation and the one or more configurations; identifying a software development kit (SDK) associated with the referenced blockchain from a plurality of SDKs respectively associated with the plurality of blockchains; obtaining, by the identified SDK from one or more blockchain nodes associated with the referenced blockchain, information on the referenced blockchain that corresponds to the command; and providing the obtained information for display in the CLI. Link to Full Patent
This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 14, 2020 as U.S. Patent Application 16/742710 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10764032. The primary examiner was Phy Anh T Vu.
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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