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US 11,842,335 B2Granted
Blockchain communications and ordering
AssigneeQuant Network Ltd.
InventorsGilbert Verdian, Colin Paterson, Gaetano Mondelli, Paolo Tasca
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a computer implemented method for maintaining a record of an order of messages appearing on one or more blockchains, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of messages, wherein each of the messages in the plurality of transactions is included on any of the one or more blockchains; and storing a record of the plurality of messages in a data store, wherein the record is indicative of the relative order of the plurality of transactions.
Claims16
A computer implemented method for effecting a communications layer that maintains a record of an order of messages appearing on two or more distributed ledgers, the method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of messages, wherein each of the messages in the plurality of messages is recorded on at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers,
- wherein the transaction confirmation timings for each of the two or more distributed ledgers are unsynchronized;
- determining a message identifier for each identified message based at least in part on content of the corresponding identified message;
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- storing the message identifiers in a data store that is separate from the two or more distributed ledgers as a record of the plurality of messages, wherein the record includes order data indicative of the relative order of the plurality of messages and includes a pointer to each of the messages on a corresponding distributed ledger of the two or more distributed ledgers, and wherein the record of the plurality of messages comprises a plurality of consecutive verification sets, and wherein at least some of the plurality of consecutive verification sets comprise one or more of the message identifiers corresponding to a respective one or more of the plurality of messages;
- storing, on at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers, a record of the most recent verification set of the plurality of consecutive verification sets, whereby the record of the plurality of messages can be used to provide at least one of increased security of one or more of the two or more distributed ledgers and/or interoperability between applications and one or more of the two or more distributed ledgers;
- checking that a record of the preceding verification set in the plurality of verification sets is present on the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers, and if a record of the preceding verification set is not present on the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers:
- replaying a record of the preceding verification set onto the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers.
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A computer architecture for effecting a communications layer that maintains a record of an order of messages appearing on two or more distributed ledgers, the architecture comprising:
- at least one computer processor;
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- at least one memory device storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one computer processor, cause the at least one computer processor to:
- identify a plurality of messages, wherein each of the messages in the plurality of messages is recorded on at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers, wherein the transaction confirmation timings for each of the two or more distributed ledgers are unsynchronized;
- determine a message identifier for each identified message based at least in part on content of the corresponding identified message;
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- cause the message identifiers to be stored in a data store that is separate from the two or more distributed ledgers as a record of the plurality of messages, wherein the record includes order data indicative of the relative order of the plurality of messages and includes a pointer to each of the messages on a corresponding distributed ledger of the two or more distributed ledgers, wherein the record of the plurality of messages comprises a plurality of consecutive verification sets, and wherein at least some of the plurality of consecutive verification sets comprise one or more of the message identifiers corresponding to a respective one or more of the plurality of messages;
- cause a record of the most recent verification set of the plurality of consecutive verification sets to be stored on at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers, whereby the record of the plurality of messages can be used to provide at least one of increased security of one or more of the two or more distributed ledgers and/or interoperability between applications and one or more of the two or more distributed ledgers;
- check that a record of the preceding verification set in the plurality of verification sets is present on the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers, and if a record of the preceding verification set is not present on the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers:
- cause a record of the preceding verification set to be replayed onto the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers.
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Non-transient computer readable media having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by at least one computer processor, cause the at least one computer processor to:
- identify a plurality of messages, wherein each of the messages in the plurality of messages is recorded on at least one of two or more distributed ledgers, wherein the transaction confirmation timings for each of the two or more distributed ledgers are unsynchronized;
- determine a message identifier for each identified message based at least in part on content of the corresponding identified message;
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- cause the message identifiers to be stored in a data store that is separate from the two or more distributed ledgers as a record of the plurality of messages,
- wherein the record includes order data indicative of the relative order of the plurality of messages and includes a pointer to each of the messages on a corresponding distributed ledger of the two or more distributed ledgers, and
- wherein the record of the plurality of messages comprises a plurality of consecutive verification sets, and
- wherein at least some of the plurality of consecutive verification sets comprise one or more of the message identifiers corresponding to a respective one or more of the plurality of messages;
- cause a record of the most recent verification set of the plurality of consecutive verification sets to be stored on at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers, whereby the record of the plurality of messages can be used to provide at least one of increased security of the one or more distributed ledgers and/or interoperability between applications and the one or more distributed ledger;
- check that a record of the preceding verification set in the plurality of verification sets is present on the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers, and
- if a record of the preceding verification set is not present on the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers:
- cause a record of the preceding verification set to be replayed onto the at least one of the two or more distributed ledgers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.