Patent ID: 11972400
Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A system for enabling faster proof-of-work in a distributed ledger, the system comprising:
one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, and instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the instructions comprising:
instructions to generate, first computing device, a first hash having a first difficulty level as a first proof of work associated with a first plurality of selected transactions, wherein the first hash is not accepted by a distributed ledger network;
instructions to receive, by the first computing device, a second plurality of selected transactions;
instructions to determine, by the first computing device, a second difficulty level for a second proof of work associated with the second plurality of selected transactions;
instructions to compare, by a processor of the first computing device, the first difficulty level to the second difficulty level; and
in response to determining that the first difficulty level is less than the second difficulty level, instructions to generate, by the first computing device, a second hash as a second proof-of-work for the second plurality of selected transactions having a residual difficulty level.