U.S. Patent 10459990 was awarded on October 29, 2019 and is entitled “Data processing method and device, medium and terminal thereof.” The first named inventor is Jia Li of Xi’an, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A data processing method, apparatus, medium and terminal thereof are disclosed in the present disclosure, the method comprising: determining data-to-be-processed based on data provided by a data provider, the data-to-be-processed includes plaintext description data; storing the plaintext description data to a database, the database may be used to support a search engine; and in response to confirmation of search results from the search engine by a data requestor, triggering a smart contract running on blockchain, the smart contract includes communication and records between the data requestor and the data provider. The technical solution in some embodiments improves search efficiency of data in blockchain technology applications. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 27, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/366043 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10459990. The primary examiner was Alexander Khong.

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