US 12,007,972 B2
Systems and methods for processing blockchain transactions
Paul Snow, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to Inveniam Capital Partners, Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed by Inveniam Capital Partners, Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jun. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/844,012.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/213,958, filed on Jun. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/212,622, filed on Jun. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0405260 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/2255 (2019.01) [G06F 16/27 (2019.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A blockchain system comprising:
a hardware processor; and
a memory device storing instructions that, when executed by the hardware processor, generate a blockchain organized as a merkle tree having a continuously increasing number of leaves, the merkle tree spanning a plurality of consecutive temporal blocks of a predetermined duration,
wherein an end of each consecutive temporal block of the plurality of consecutive temporal blocks constitutes a corresponding reference point, and
wherein a first plurality of roots of non-overlapping subtrees of the merkle tree summarizes a cumulative state of the blockchain at a particular temporal block's reference point, and
wherein the first plurality of roots differs from a second plurality of roots of non-overlapping subtrees of the merkle tree that summarizes a cumulative state of the blockchain at an earlier block's reference point.