US 2023/0267153 A1 · INTEGRATED INDEX BLOCKS AND SEARCHING IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS

Abstract

Systems and methods for indexing blockchain data in a blockchain system. These systems and methods receive a set of transactions from one or more transaction blocks of a blockchain, wherein the transactions in the set have been validated by one or more peer systems of the blockchain. The systems and methods further generate an index to one or more fields of one or more transactions in the set of transactions of the transaction block generate an index representative of at least one field in the set of transactions of the transaction block and provide the generated index for validation by a peer system of the blockchain. After receiving verification from at least a threshold number of peer systems that the generated index has been validated by the peer system, the generated index is stored as an index block in the blockchain.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving a set of transactions of a transaction block of a blockchain, wherein the set of transactions have been validated by one or more peer systems of the blockchain;
generating, by a processing device, an index to one or more fields of one or more transactions of the transaction block;
providing the generated index for validation by a peer system of the blockchain;
receiving verification from at least a threshold number of peer systems that the generated index has been validated by the peer system;
and
storing, by the processing device, the generated index as an index block in the blockchain.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

receive a set of transactions of a transaction block of a blockchain, wherein the set of transactions have been validated by one or more peer systems of the blockchain;
generate an index to one or more fields of one or more transactions in the set of transactions of the transaction block;
provide the generated index for validation by a peer system of the blockchain;
receive verification from at least a threshold number of peer systems that the generated index has been validated by the peer system;
and
store the generated index as an index block in the blockchain.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/306,000Filed 24 Apr 2023

Priority

27 Sep 2018

Published

24 Aug 2023

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

G06F 16/90335
Querying: query processing
H04L 9/3239
Using cryptographic hash functions: involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD
G06F 16/13
File systems; File servers: file access structures, e.g. distributed indices
G06F 16/1805
File system types: append-only file systems, e.g. using logs or journals to store data

Family

Application16/144,861Continuation · filed 27 Sep 2018

Application17/169,243Continuation · filed 5 Feb 2021

Application18/306,000Continuation

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Integrated index blocks and searching in blockchain systems

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Abstract

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