U.S. Patent 9807106 was awarded to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company on October 31, 2017 and is entitled “Mitigating blockchain attack.” The first named inventor is Joshua DANIEL of London, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer implemented method for detecting malicious events occurring with respect to a blockchain data structure comprising: defining a transaction creation profile according to which transactions can be generated and submitted to the blockchain; submitting a transaction to the blockchain, the transaction causing the generation of a profiler data structure in the blockchain including executable code to generate profile transactions to be submitted to the blockchain according to the transaction creation profile; monitoring the blockchain to identify profile transactions; and comparing identified profile transactions with the transaction creation profile to detect a deviation from the transaction creation profile, such detection corresponding to a malicious event occurring with respect to the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 29, 2016  as U.S. Patent Application 15/223261 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 9807106. The primary examiner was Longbit Chai.

BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1615 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 24 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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