Patent ID: 11947522
Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 3:
4. A system for confirming configuration of a new genesis block in a blockchain configured to enable pruning prior to the current genesis block, comprising:
a blockchain network;
another node in the blockchain network; and
a blockchain node in the blockchain network including
a receiver receiving a genesis response message from another node in the blockchain network, the genesis response message including at least a (1) configuration value that is an aggregation of identified state changes in smart contracts since a most recent genesis block record and (2) an ordinal value that indicates a number of the new genesis block in relation to all past genesis blocks, and
a processor
identifying a plurality of blocks in the blockchain added subsequent to an earlier genesis block that includes a number preceding the ordinal value,
aggregating state changes from each of the identified plurality of blocks, and
validating the configuration value included in the received genesis response message based on the aggregated state changes.