U.S. Patent 10382388 was awarded on August 13, 2019 and is entitled “Determining consensus in a decentralized domain name system.” The first named inventor is Han-Che Wang of Sugar Land, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method comprising: A. forming a consortium blockchain network using domain network nodes and selecting committee members from top-level domain nodes; B. the committee member who received most votes packs the genesis block and generates a random number; C. the housekeeper having the same number as the random number packs the current block and generates a random number for selecting a next housekeeper to pack the next block, each block is approved by more than half of the committee members; D. during the duty cycle, each housekeeper takes turns packing blocks and generating random numbers and the process is repeated. If a block is not approved, the housekeeper with the next number is requested to repack the block; and E. the last random number generated by a housekeeper before the duty cycle ends is used to select the housekeeper to pack the first block of the next duty cycle. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 05, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/997710 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10382388. The primary examiner was Andrew C Georgandellis.

This blockchain patent has been cited 4 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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