U.S. Patent 10924489 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on February 16, 2021 and is entitled “Building trusted public blockchain networks based on participants’ digital social behavior.” The first named inventor is Fenglian Xu of Chandlers Ford, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method is disclosed including receiving a request for changing a privilege of a peer of the public blockchain network, in response to receiving the request for changing the privilege, automatically submitting a trust query to a trust verification entity, receiving from the trust verification entity, a trust score associated with the peer, comparing the received trust score to a pre-determined threshold, determining, based on the comparison, that the trust score is greater than the pre-determined threshold, in response to determining that the trust score is greater than the pre-determined threshold, automatically voting that the request be granted, receiving votes of other privileged peers of the public blockchain network, determining that a number of the votes for granting the request is sufficient to grant the request, and in response to determining that the number of votes is sufficient, automatically executing the requested changing of the privilege of the peer. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 19, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/875421 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10924489. The primary examiner was John A Follansbee.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 150818 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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