Patent ID: 11961070
Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a system provider device, transaction information for a transaction that is configured to provide for a transfer of a digital asset between a payer device and a payee device via a distributed public ledger;
accessing, from the system provider device, resource information of each mining device in the plurality of mining devices, the resource information associated with energy consumption expanded by that mining device for mining a block for the distributed public ledger and energy cost associated with operating that mining device;
determining, at the system provider device, a score for the each mining device based on the energy consumption and the energy cost associated with the resource information of that mining device;
selecting, using scores of the plurality of mining devices, a subset of the plurality of mining devices for processing the transaction; and
broadcasting, via a network to the subset of the plurality of mining devices the transaction information for the transaction to cause one of the subset of the plurality of mining devices to include the transaction in the block on the distributed public ledger.