Patent ID: 11880228
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A system for processing a blockchain comprising a plurality of immutable records, the blockchain maintained by a plurality of nodes connected via a network, the system comprising:
a first node of the plurality of nodes, the first node configured to maintain a first copy of the blockchain;
a second node of the plurality of nodes, the second node connected to the first node via the network and configured to maintain a second copy of the blockchain;
a first processor implemented in the first node and configured to:
receive a transaction request initiated by a requesting node,
verify the transaction request by verifying an identity of the requesting node, wherein verifying the identity of the requesting node includes:
querying a permissions database to determine a permission level associated with the requesting node, and
determining, based on the permission level, that the requesting node has permission to submit the transaction request;

responsive to determining that the requesting node has permission to submit the transaction request, add a record to a new block to add to the blockchain, and
transmit, via the network, the new block to at least the second node, wherein the second node updates the second copy of the blockchain to include the new block.