U.S. Patent 10970307 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on April 06, 2021 and is entitled “Information transparency control.” The first named inventor is Hiroaki Nakamura of Sakai, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a broker node, to a blockchain comprised of an arranger node and a plurality of client nodes, retrieving from the blockchain, by the broker node, a request for information sent by a client node of the plurality of the client nodes, decrypting, by the broker node, the request for the information with a private key of the broker node, extracting, by the broker node, a public key of a client associated with the client node from the decrypted request for the information, selecting, by the broker node, a set of client properties based on the public key of the client, generating, by the broker node, a modified request for information based on the request for the information and the set of the client properties, and sending, by the broker node, the modified request for the information to the arranger node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 03, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/179903 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10970307. The primary examiner was Morshed Mehedi.

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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