U.S. Patent 11159391 was awarded to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. on October 26, 2021 and is entitled “Instantiation of a telco blockchain in a NFV environment.” The first named inventor is Gary Dean Iosbaker of Fort Collins, CO. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system and method are provided for instantiating a blockchain in a telecommunications network. The method includes identifying a smart contract having S transactions; encoding the S transactions into a sub-blockchain; selecting K edge gate nodes of the telecommunications network from among N of the edge gate nodes according to an ant colony system algorithm, wherein each of the edge gate nodes operates at an edge of the telecommunications network, and wherein S≤K; and allocating the sub-blockchain as one or more virtual network functions among the K edge gate nodes. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 08, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/242925 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11159391. The primary examiner was Hee Soo Kim.

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 37773 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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