Patent ID: 11928222
Assignee: BLOCKFRAME, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a first synchronization group of nodes of a distributed ledger network;
wherein each node of the first synchronization group of nodes is time synchronized to participate in at least one consensus process of a set of consensus processes using a trust-based consensus model, wherein, to use the trust-based consensus model, each node of the first synchronization group of nodes is associated with a respective trust value indicative of trust in participating in the at least one consensus process, and wherein each respective trust value is updated based on success of participation of the node in the at least one consensus process;
wherein the first synchronization group of nodes comprises a first node; and
wherein, to participate in the at least one consensus process, the first node is to participate in at least one of:
a primary consensus process to generate, by the first synchronization group of nodes after a primary synchronization period defined for the first synchronization group of nodes, a first primary consensus block based at least in part on a content block obtained by the first node;
a bridge consensus process asynchronously performed to generate a bridge consensus block by synchronizing the first primary consensus block generated by the first synchronization group of nodes with at least a second primary consensus block generated by a second synchronization group of nodes of the distributed ledger network; or
a global consensus process to generate, after a global synchronization period defined for the distributed ledger network, a global consensus block by synchronizing a plurality of bridge consensus blocks comprising the bridge consensus block.