U.S. Patent 10956204 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on March 23, 2021 and is entitled “Free-riding node identification for blockchain.” The first named inventor is Sayandeep Sen of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving system calls captured from a plurality of peer nodes of a blockchain that occurred within a predetermined period of time, determining a subset of system calls among the received system calls that correspond to a blockchain process performed during the predetermined period of time, detecting a free-riding peer node from among the plurality of peer nodes based on the identified subset of system calls with respect to system calls of the free-riding peer node within the predetermined period of time, and storing an indicator of the free-riding peer node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 14, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/601563 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10956204. The primary examiner was Djenane M Bayard.

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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