Patent ID: 11875345
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for conducting a transaction between a first user on a first partition of a blockchain and a second user on a second partition of the blockchain, the method comprising the following steps:
providing, on the first partition, a first smart contract, and, on the second partition, a second smart contract, wherein the first partition stores a first set of transactions, the second partition stores a second set of transactions, and the first set of transactions and the second set of transactions are independent from each other;
anchoring state channels in the first and second partitions through the first and second smart contracts, wherein the first smart contract implements a first state channel between the first user and an intermediary on the first partition, and the second smart contract implements a second state channel between the second user and the intermediary on the second partition; and
carrying out the transaction between the first and second partitions on the state channels, wherein the transaction includes the intermediary receiving a value from the first user on the first partition using the first state channel implemented by the first smart contract, and the intermediary communicating the value to the second user on the second partition using the second state channel implemented by the second smart contract.