Patents by Inventor Benjamin Mark Roberts

Benjamin Mark Roberts has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • TECHNIQUES TO INCENTIVIZE A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK TO PRIORITIZE STATE CHANGES
    Publication number: 20200396082
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include techniques to increase the probability that network validators will include a specific transaction in a target block of a blockchain. The method includes creating and signing in real-time a transaction and loading copies of the transaction at agent nodes connected to a network of peer nodes. An agent node can obtain an indication of an opportunity to write the transaction to a target block. The method can further include broadcasting the transaction to the network of peer nodes based on the obtained indication of the opportunity to write the transaction, to improve a probability of having the transaction written to the target block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin Mark Roberts, Brett David Bergmann
  • Techniques for increasing the probability that a transaction will be included in a target block of a blockchain
    Patent number: 10812270
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include techniques to increase the probability that network validators will include a specific transaction in a target block of a blockchain. The method includes creating and signing in real-time a transaction and loading copies of the transaction at agent nodes connected to a network of peer nodes. An agent node can obtain an indication of an opportunity to write the transaction to a target block. The method can further include broadcasting the transaction to the network of peer nodes based on the obtained indication of the opportunity to write the transaction, to improve a probability of having the transaction written to the target block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Citizen Hex Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Mark Roberts, Brett David Bergmann
  • TECHNIQUES FOR INCREASING THE PROBABILITY THAT A TRANSACTION WILL BE INCLUDED IN A TARGET BLOCK OF A BLOCKCHAIN
    Publication number: 20180294967
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include techniques to increase the probability that network validators will include a specific transaction in a target block of a blockchain. The method includes creating and signing in real-time a transaction and loading copies of the transaction at agent nodes connected to a network of peer nodes. An agent node can obtain an indication of an opportunity to write the transaction to a target block. The method can further include broadcasting the transaction to the network of peer nodes based on the obtained indication of the opportunity to write the transaction, to improve a probability of having the transaction written to the target block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin Mark Roberts, Brett David Bergmann