Patent SG-11201903566X-A (SG)
Title: Regulating blockchain confidential transactions
Inventor: LIU ZHENG
Filed: 2018-11-07
Abstract: balanceb Create and submit confidential transaction TX Obtain TX information from blockchain Audit/supervise each TX 308 Blockchain network FIG. 3 N O ON O C (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (43) International Publication Date 18 April 2019 (18.04.2019) WIPO I PCT 1111111111111101111111111111111011111010011111111111011101111111101111111011110111111 (10) International Publication Number WO 2019/072261 A2 (51) International Patent Classification: Not classified (21) International Application Number: PCT/CN2018/114314 (22) International Filing Date: 07 November 2018 (07.11.2018) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (71) Applicant: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED [—/CN]; Fourth Floor, One Capital Place, P.O. Box 847, George Town, Grand Cayman (KY). (72) Inventors: LIU, Zheng; Alibaba Group Legal Department 5/F, Building 3, No.969 West Wen Yi Road, Yuhang Dis- trict, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121 (CN). LI, Lichun; Al- ibaba Group Legal Department 5/F, Building 3, No.969 West Wen Yi Road, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121 (CN). WANG, Huazhong; Alibaba Group Legal Department 5/F, Building 3, No.969 West Wen Yi Road, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121 (CN). (74) Agent: BEIJING BESTIPR INTELLECTUAL PROP- ERTY LAW CORPORATION; Room 409, Tower B, Ka With Building, No.9 Shangdi 3rd Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100085 (CN). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JO, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, (54) Title: REGULATING BLOCKCHAIN CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTIONS (57) : Implementations of the present disclosure include obtaining, by a client node of a blockchain network, a public key of a regulator node; generating, by the client node, one or more commitment values of a confidential transaction of the client node by applying a cryptographic commitment scheme to transaction data of the confidential transaction; generating, by the client node, encrypted regulatory information of the confidential transaction by encrypting the transaction data using the public key of the regulator node; and transmitting, by the client node to a consensus node of the blockchain network, a content of the confidential transaction for execution, wherein the content of the confidential transaction includes: the one or more commitment values; the encrypted regulatory information; and one or more zero-knowledge proofs of the transaction data. [Continued on next page] WO 2019/072261 A2 111111 11111111 0111010111111110111110 1 001 II 1111101110111111110 SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Published: upon request of the applicant, before the expiration of the time limit referred to in Article 21(2)(a) without international search report and to be republished upon receipt of that report (Rule 48.2(g))