Patent ID: 11861427
Assignee: nan
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A method, comprising:
managing a cloud-hosted permissioned blockchain network that includes transaction nodes for consortium members of the cloud-hosted permissioned blockchain network, and further includes a shared pool of validator nodes, wherein each transaction node of the cloud-hosted permissioned blockchain network is separate from each validator node of the cloud-hosted permissioned blockchain network, wherein a first consortium member of the consortium members is enabled to communicate with a first transaction node of the transaction nodes via an exposed remote procedure call (RPC) endpoint of the first transaction node and a second consortium member of the consortium members is enabled to communicate with a second transaction node of the transaction nodes via an exposed RPC endpoint of the second transaction node, and wherein each validator node in the shared pool of validator nodes do not have an exposed RPC endpoint, preventing the first consortium member and the second consortium member from communicating with the shared pool of validator nodes,
wherein managing the cloud-hosted permissioned blockchain network includes:
via at least one of the transaction nodes of the cloud-hosted permissioned blockchain network, responsive to receiving requests for blockchain transactions, performing the blockchain transactions;
via the validator nodes of the shared pool of validator nodes, performing validation on the performed blockchain transactions based on a byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) consensus protocol; and
via the validator nodes of the shared pool of validator nodes, responsive to successful validation of the blockchain transactions based on the BFT consensus protocol, committing the blockchain transactions.