PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16249514
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["713", "176000"]

Abstract:
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing blockchain transactions, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for securing a blockchain with proof-of-transactions. In various embodiments, the blockchain system utilizes a proof-of-transactions approach that is based on a multi-player voting system and that is not susceptible to a free-rider problem that affects many other cryptocurrencies. The proof-of-transactions approach allows the cryptocurrency network to divide revenue between the nodes in the peer-to-peer network that provides bandwidth and connectivity and a set of other nodes that solve computational puzzles that safeguard the security of the blockchain system.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n embedding, by a first node among a plurality of nodes in a peer-to-peer blockchain network and into an unconfirmed transaction being propagated across said network for eventual inclusion in a block, a cryptographic signature and a network address that combines with other cryptographic signatures and network addresses that have been previously embedded in the unconfirmed transaction by one or more other nodes of the plurality of nodes in the blockchain network to create a chain of signatures that constitutes an independently-verifiable and unforgeable record of a routing path that the unconfirmed transaction takes as it propagates across the peer-to-peer blockchain network; and validating, with a second node among the plurality of nodes, the chain of signatures embedded in the transactions included in a block of a blockchain to confirm that the block itself is valid in accordance with a set of consensus rules of the blockchain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 713.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16052912', '16136637', '15392389', '15942604', '16135701']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3458846165341978
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.625818251605037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3738779800412817
- Mean Citation Score: 318.853112
- Max Citation Score: 546.57135
- Similarity Product: 544.6576418948115

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test