U.S. Patent 10135834 was awarded to Social Patent LLC on November 20, 2018 and is entitled “System and method of executing operations in a social network application.” The first named inventor is Stephen H. Galebach of Medford, MA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Embodiments are directed to improving social network applications using the power of the blockchain (or other repository of facts as a service). The embodiments include methods and systems that register users with a social network application coupled to the blockchain, including providing respective user identifiers recorded in the blockchain. The methods and systems, for each user, configure a set of verification parameters enabled to filter the participation of the respective user identifier in operations. The methods and systems initiate, by a querying user, an operation that causes the social network application to: (a) query the blockchain to locate attested-to facts specific to user identifiers of the registered users and (b) filter participation of at least one user identifier in the operation based on the attested-to facts meeting the verification parameters. The methods and systems execute the operation based on the filtering and return results based on the attested-to facts meeting an operation parameter of the executed operation. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 20, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/789724 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10135834. The primary examiner was William J. Goodchild.

Social Patent LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 33 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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