Patent ID: 11888730
Assignee: BLOCK, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. The system of claim 11, wherein the node operator obtains at least a portion of the state data by probing the decentralized network, and wherein to probe the decentralized network to obtain the portion of state data, the node operator is further configured to:
probe the decentralized network at a first time to determine balances of channels between nodes of the decentralized network at the first time;
probe the decentralized network at a second time to determine balances of channels between nodes of the decentralized network at the second time; and
determine network traffic over the channels based on a difference between the balances of the channels at the first time and the balances of the channels at the second time.