US 11,734,296 B2
Off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain
Stephen Opferman, Denver, CO (US); William R. Benassi, Elk River, MN (US); and James P. Gately, Boulder, CO (US)
Assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed by CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/721,028.
Application 17/721,028 is a continuation of application No. 16/798,861, filed on Feb. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,314,763.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/823,778, filed on Mar. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0245166 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/25 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/254 (2019.01) [G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, with a computing system, a first instance of a blockchain of a blockchain system;
extracting, with the computing system and from the first instance of the blockchain, one or more first blocks of the blockchain from the first instance of the blockchain;
extracting, with the computing system and from the one or more first blocks of the blockchain, data contained in each block of the one or more first blocks of the blockchain and a hash value of each corresponding first block;
generating, with the computing system, a second instance of the blockchain, the second instance of the blockchain containing one or more second blocks, wherein the one or more second blocks each contains the hash value of each corresponding one or more first blocks, without containing the data contained in each block of the one or more first blocks; and
storing, with the computing system and in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.