Patent ID: 11881980
Assignee: RED HAT, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:
responsive to detecting an unavailability of a first node device of a plurality of node devices of a network, activate a proxy device to correspond to the first node device;
detect a consensus operation among the plurality of node devices for a blockchain operation of a blockchain within the network, wherein the consensus operation comprises a plurality of vote transmissions associated with the blockchain within the network, wherein to detect the consensus operation is further to examine the approval status of each of the plurality of vote transmissions;
control, by the processing device, content of a proxy vote transmission provided by the proxy device by setting the content of the proxy vote transmission based on an approval status of each of the plurality of vote transmissions, wherein the proxy vote transmission is associated with the blockchain and is provided by the proxy device as part of the consensus operation for the blockchain;
on a condition that a count of the plurality of vote transmissions that indicate approval exceeds a defined vote threshold, transmit instructions to the proxy device to transmit the proxy vote transmission comprising an approval of the consensus operation; and
on a condition that the count of the plurality of vote transmissions that indicate approval does not exceed the defined vote threshold, transmit instructions to the proxy device to transmit the proxy vote transmission comprising a disapproval of the consensus operation.