Patent ID: 11861558
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 20:
21. A blockchain computer system, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory on which are stored machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
receive an order for an item from a retailer node;
acquire an encrypted average volume of inventory of an item from a plurality of supplier nodes and an encrypted incoming inventory of the item for the plurality of supplier nodes;
generate an order distribution policy specifying how much of the item of the order is to be provided from each respective supplier from among the plurality of supplier nodes via execution of an algorithm on the encrypted average volume of inventory of the item and the encrypted incoming inventory of the item for the plurality of supplier nodes included in the encrypted average volume and incoming inventory via a processing device; and
invoke execution of a smart contract on a blockchain peer node on a blockchain ledger of the blockchain network which executes the algorithm to split the order into a plurality of orders based on the order distribution policy and submit the plurality of orders to the plurality of supplier nodes over the blockchain network.