US 11,748,811 B1
Blockchain instrument for transferable equity
Thomas Marshall Gordon, III, Raleigh, NC (US); Joseph W. Forbes, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US); and Gregory Frederick Bush, Cary, NC (US)
Assigned to EQUITY SHIFT, INC., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed by Equity Shift, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/66,669.
Application 18/066,669 is a continuation of application No. 16/910,936, filed on Jun. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,532,047.
Application 16/910,936 is a continuation of application No. 16/518,329, filed on Jul. 22, 2019, granted, now 10,699,340, issued on Jun. 30, 2020.
Application 16/518,329 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/271,447, filed on Feb. 8, 2019, granted, now 10,713,722, issued on Jul. 14, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/630,559, filed on Feb. 14, 2018.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 40/04 (2012.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 40/04 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/0658 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3678 (2013.01); G06Q 20/389 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for performing transactions of tokenized securities during a tokenized securities offering, comprising:
a distributed ledger-based tokenized securities platform in network communication with a server computer for a tokenized securities offering entity and at least one user device;
wherein the distributed ledger-based tokenized securities platform deploys tokenized securities contracts for the tokenized securities on the distributed ledger-based tokenized securities platform;
wherein the server computer for the tokenized securities offering entity receives user input data from the at least one user device for registering to purchase at least one securities token via a graphical user interface (GUI);
wherein the server computer sends a link to documents related to the at least one securities token to the at least one user device;
wherein the at least one user device reviews and signs the documents related to the at least one securities token;
wherein the distributed ledger-based tokenized securities platform records the tokenized securities contracts for the transactions of the tokenized securities on a distributed ledger;
wherein the distributed ledger-based tokenized securities platform retires a node of the distributed ledger and adds new nodes to the distributed ledger using the retired node as a genesis node;
wherein each of the at least one user device is associated with at least one unique, personalized watermark; and
wherein the distributed ledger-based tokenized securities platform automatically embeds the at least one unique, personalized watermark into documents uploaded and/or updated by the at least one user device.