US 12,411,915 B2
Storing a program on a blockchain
Brock Doiron, London (GB); and Craig Steven Wright, London (GB)
Assigned to nChain Licensing AG, Zug (CH)
Appl. No. 17/642,144
Filed by nChain Holdings Limited, St. John's (AG)
PCT Filed Aug. 21, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/057858
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 10, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/048665, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1913145 (GB), filed on Sep. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0358189 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/12 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 21/12 (2013.01) [G06F 21/602 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of running a program, the method comprising, by computer equipment of a consuming party: retrieving a header file of a program file from a first transaction recorded on a blockchain maintained across a plurality of nodes of a blockchain network, the header file comprising: program header information, and reference information comprising one or more respective transaction identifiers (IDs) of one or more respective second transactions stored on the blockchain, wherein each respective one of the second transactions comprises a respective section of respective sections of a body of the program file, at least one respective section of the respective sections comprising runnable program code; from the blockchain, retrieving the respective section of the program file from at least one of the one or more respective second transactions based on the reference information; and running a program comprising the program header information and the at least one retrieved section.