Patents by Inventor Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton

Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton 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).

  • Patent number: 11922403
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media disclosed herein relate to reducing computation and computing resources for certain blockchain related transactions. Specifically, software algorithms and architecture allow some transactions to avoid the need for recordation on a blockchain, which can be computationally expensive both for a requesting device and for various nodes on the blockchain. Thus, a computer system may receive indications of incoming transactions transferring digital assets to particular user accounts, and in response to requests from user accounts, the computer system facilitates one or more internal transactions between those accounts. In response to a request from a particular internal user account, the computer system may perform an outgoing transaction transferring one or more digital assets to an external user account from one or more internal user accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton
  • Publication number: 20230342735
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a carbon neutral blockchain protocol for resolving carbon offsetter payments for cryptocurrency transactions. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide a green wallet and network protocol that provides carbon offsetting fees and payments to carbon offsetters in order to account for carbon emissions and usage when processing cryptocurrency transactions on a blockchain network protocol. A green wallet may be provided, which allows registration of carbon offsetters and use of green addresses to cause cryptocurrency to be processed in a green transaction. A user's digital wallet may sign an initial cryptocurrency transaction and provide the fee to the green wallet. The green wallet may then resolve the cryptocurrency transaction by further signing the transaction and transmitting the fee to a digital wallet of the carbon offsetter over another cryptocurrency processing network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Sujay Vijay Purandare, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Michael Charles Todasco, Norihiro Edwin Aoki, Suryatej Gundavelli
  • Publication number: 20230291544
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein may implement non-fungible tokens that implement a programmable grammar-based syntax in a variety of environments. In an embodiment, a first non-fungible token that implements a programmable grammar-based syntax standard and includes a first updatable programmable section is generated. The first non-fungible token includes at least one of first executable instructions or first data, and a first portion of the at least one of the first executable instructions or the first data is stored, according to the grammar-based syntax standard, in the first updatable programmable section. The first non-fungible token may then be stored at a first blockchain address on a blockchain, and the first portion of the at least one of the first executable instructions or the first data in the first updatable programmable section of the first non-fungible token is subsequently changed to at least one of second executable instructions or second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Bradley Turner, Michael Jim Tien Chan, Jonathan Michael Padilla, Liam Julian DiGregorio, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton
  • Patent number: 11727365
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a carbon neutral blockchain protocol for resolving carbon offsetter payments for cryptocurrency transactions. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide a green wallet and network protocol that provides carbon offsetting fees and payments to carbon offsetters in order to account for carbon emissions and usage when processing cryptocurrency transactions on a blockchain network protocol. A green wallet may be provided, which allows registration of carbon offsetters and use of green addresses to cause cryptocurrency to be processed in a green transaction. A user's digital wallet may sign an initial cryptocurrency transaction and provide the fee to the green wallet. The green wallet may then resolve the cryptocurrency transaction by further signing the transaction and transmitting the fee to a digital wallet of the carbon offsetter over another cryptocurrency processing network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Sujay Vijay Purandare, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Michael Charles Todasco, Norihiro Edwin Aoki, Suryatej Gundavelli
  • Publication number: 20230177489
    Abstract: Novel technical ways of facilitating secured execution of blockchain transactions are presented. In various embodiments, A system, comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform operations comprising: receiving a set of biometric identifiers; in response to receiving the set of biometric identifiers, validating the set of biometric identifiers; in response to validating the set of biometric identifiers, encoding, using a synthesizer, the set of biometric identifiers with a digital-key to generate a multi-factor signature; and causing a block-chain transaction to be executed using the multi-factor signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Jim Tien Chan, Suryatej Gundavelli, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Michael Charles Todasco, Mehak Jethmalani, Liam Julian DiGregorio, John Lucas Timoney
  • Publication number: 20230177507
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein may implement blockchain cryptocurrency transactions in a variety of environments. An online transaction processor may provide operations for user activity detection for locking cryptocurrency conversions. The transaction processor may detect used activities for a user online or at a physical location and determine that those activities indicate that the user will engage in electronic transaction processing at an upcoming time. The transaction processor may determine that the user has available cryptocurrency and may want to convert at least a portion of the cryptocurrency to another currency for the electronic transaction processing. Using a cryptocurrency exchange, the transaction processor may determine a price to convert the cryptocurrency to the other currency and may lock that price for a time period for the user. A notification may be transmitted to the user with a user interface element to accept this offer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Michael Charles Todasco, Michael Jim Tien Chan, Suryatej Gundavelli, John Lucas Timoney
  • Patent number: 11652604
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein improve blockchain storage operations in a variety of environments. A blockchain compression system may determine that a blockchain compression condition associated with a blockchain having a first plurality of blocks has been satisfied. In response, the system compresses the first plurality of blocks using a first hash tree into a first root hash value and stores the first plurality of blocks in a first database. The blockchain compression system generates a first new era genesis block that includes the first root hash value and a first database address of the first database at which the first plurality of blocks are stored. The blockchain compression system stores the blockchain at one or more nodes in a blockchain network. The blockchain includes the first new era genesis block and any previous new era genesis blocks. This may effectively reduce storage requirements for the blockchain, in various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Suryatej Gundavelli, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Michael Jim Tien Chan
  • Patent number: 11652605
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein may implement non-fungible tokens that implement a programmable grammar-based syntax in a variety of environments. In an embodiment, a first non-fungible token that implements a programmable grammar-based syntax standard and includes a first updatable programmable section is generated. The first non-fungible token includes at least one of first executable instructions or first data, and a first portion of the at least one of the first executable instructions or the first data is stored, according to the grammar-based syntax standard, in the first updatable programmable section. The first non-fungible token may then be stored at a first blockchain address on a blockchain, and the first portion of the at least one of the first executable instructions or the first data in the first updatable programmable section of the first non-fungible token is subsequently changed to at least one of second executable instructions or second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Turner, Michael Jim Tien Chan, Jonathan Michael Padilla, Liam Julian DiGregorio, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton
  • Publication number: 20230048376
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a carbon neutral blockchain protocol for resolving carbon offsetter payments for cryptocurrency transactions. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide a green wallet and network protocol that provides carbon offsetting fees and payments to carbon offsetters in order to account for carbon emissions and usage when processing cryptocurrency transactions on a blockchain network protocol. A green wallet may be provided, which allows registration of carbon offsetters and use of green addresses to cause cryptocurrency to be processed in a green transaction. A user's digital wallet may sign an initial cryptocurrency transaction and provide the fee to the green wallet. The green wallet may then resolve the cryptocurrency transaction by further signing the transaction and transmitting the fee to a digital wallet of the carbon offsetter over another cryptocurrency processing network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Sujay Vijay Purandare, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Michael Charles Todasco, Norihiro Edwin Aoki, Suryatej Gundavelli
  • Publication number: 20230040773
    Abstract: Mechanisms for efficiently transferring multiple unspent transaction output (UTXO) tokens in a blockchain network operating a UTXO-based token transaction model are disclosed herein. These methods allow for the use of less computer processing and network bandwidth resources in the transfer of blockchain items, particularly in blockchain schemes with lineage tracking mechanisms (e.g. as may allow for clawback of tokens). Some embodiments comprise generating a delegated account and transferring the UTXO tokens into the delegated account. The ownership of the delegated account can then be transferred to another use of the blockchain network in a single transaction, thereby avoiding the need to individually transfer the UTXO tokens and incur the memory and computational resource burden and costs associated with therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Liam Julian DiGregorio
  • Patent number: 11568393
    Abstract: Mechanisms for efficiently transferring multiple unspent transaction output (UTXO) tokens in a blockchain network operating a UTXO-based token transaction model are disclosed herein. These methods allow for the use of less computer processing and network bandwidth resources in the transfer of blockchain items, particularly in blockchain schemes with lineage tracking mechanisms (e.g. as may allow for clawback of tokens). Some embodiments comprise generating a delegated account and transferring the UTXO tokens into the delegated account. The ownership of the delegated account can then be transferred to another use of the blockchain network in a single transaction, thereby avoiding the need to individually transfer the UTXO tokens and incur the memory and computational resource burden and costs associated with therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Liam Julian DiGregorio
  • Publication number: 20220318788
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media disclosed herein relate to reducing computation and computing resources for certain blockchain related transactions. Specifically, software algorithms and architecture allow some transactions to avoid the need for recordation on a blockchain, which can be computationally expensive both for a requesting device and for various nodes on the blockchain. Thus, a computer system may receive indications of incoming transactions transferring digital assets to particular user accounts, and in response to requests from user accounts, the computer system facilitates one or more internal transactions between those accounts. In response to a request from a particular internal user account, the computer system may perform an outgoing transaction transferring one or more digital assets to an external user account from one or more internal user accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton
  • Patent number: 11449938
    Abstract: Tracking and clawing back unspent transaction output (UTXO) tokens mechanism are disclosed for distributed ledger technology-based networks (DLTNs) operating a UTXO-based token transaction model (which can include blockchain networks). Some embodiments comprise receiving a request to transfer a UTXO token in a DLTN operating a UTXO-based token transaction model. Further, the embodiments can include determining that a clawback list includes the genesis token identifier and barred token identifiers of UTXO tokens barred from being transferred on the DLTN. In addition, the embodiments can include determining whether the clawback list includes any of the ancestral token identifiers of the UTXO token and generating an instruction regulating the transfer of the UTXO token in the DLTN based on the determining whether the clawback list includes any of the ancestral token identifiers. Such techniques improve the security and functionality of DLTNs such as a blockchain network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Liam Julian DiGregorio
  • Publication number: 20220271915
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein may implement non-fungible tokens that implement a programmable grammar-based syntax in a variety of environments. In an embodiment, a first non-fungible token that implements a programmable grammar-based syntax standard and includes a first updatable programmable section is generated. The first non-fungible token includes at least one of first executable instructions or first data, and a first portion of the at least one of the first executable instructions or the first data is stored, according to the grammar-based syntax standard, in the first updatable programmable section. The first non-fungible token may then be stored at a first blockchain address on a blockchain, and the first portion of the at least one of the first executable instructions or the first data in the first updatable programmable section of the first non-fungible token is subsequently changed to at least one of second executable instructions or second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Bradley Turner, Michael Jim Tien Chan, Jonathan Michael Padilla, Liam Julian DiGregorio, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton
  • Patent number: 11424922
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to generation of cryptographic private keys. In some embodiments, a computing system receives a request for a private key for use with a service that uses a key of a first length, where the request specifies a key of a second length that is less than the first length. The system then generates a hashing scheme based on the second length and a key computation time, where the hashing scheme includes a number of hashing rounds and a set of hashing functions. The system creates a synthetic key of the second length and uses the synthetic key and the hashing scheme to create a normal key of the first length, where the synthetic key permits a user to access the service by supplying the synthetic key and without having to supply the normal key. The disclosed cryptographic techniques may advantageously allow for memorization of private keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Suryatej Gundavelli
  • Publication number: 20220198441
    Abstract: Mechanisms for efficiently transferring multiple unspent transaction output (UTXO) tokens in a blockchain network operating a UTXO-based token transaction model are disclosed herein. These methods allow for the use of less computer processing and network bandwidth resources in the transfer of blockchain items, particularly in blockchain schemes with lineage tracking mechanisms (e.g. as may allow for clawback of tokens). Some embodiments comprise generating a delegated account and transferring the UTXO tokens into the delegated account. The ownership of the delegated account can then be transferred to another use of the blockchain network in a single transaction, thereby avoiding the need to individually transfer the UTXO tokens and incur the memory and computational resource burden and costs associated with therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Liam Julian DiGregorio
  • Publication number: 20220198559
    Abstract: Tracking and clawing back unspent transaction output (UTXO) tokens mechanism are disclosed for distributed ledger technology-based networks (DLTNs) operating a UTXO-based token transaction model (which can include blockchain networks). Some embodiments comprise receiving a request to transfer a UTXO token in a DLTN operating a UTXO-based token transaction model. Further, the embodiments can include determining that a clawback list includes the genesis token identifier and barred token identifiers of UTXO tokens barred from being transferred on the DLTN. In addition, the embodiments can include determining whether the clawback list includes any of the ancestral token identifiers of the UTXO token and generating an instruction regulating the transfer of the UTXO token in the DLTN based on the determining whether the clawback list includes any of the ancestral token identifiers. Such techniques improve the security and functionality of DLTNs such as a blockchain network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Liam Julian DiGregorio
  • Publication number: 20220150050
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein improve blockchain storage operations in a variety of environments. A blockchain compression system may determine that a blockchain compression condition associated with a blockchain having a first plurality of blocks has been satisfied. In response, the system compresses the first plurality of blocks using a first hash tree into a first root hash value and stores the first plurality of blocks in a first database. The blockchain compression system generates a first new era genesis block that includes the first root hash value and a first database address of the first database at which the first plurality of blocks are stored. The blockchain compression system stores the blockchain at one or more nodes in a blockchain network. The blockchain includes the first new era genesis block and any previous new era genesis blocks. This may effectively reduce storage requirements for the blockchain, in various embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Suryatej Gundavelli, Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Michael Jim Tien Chan
  • Publication number: 20210359853
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to generation of cryptographic private keys. In some embodiments, a computing system receives a request for a private key for use with a service that uses a key of a first length, where the request specifies a key of a second length that is less than the first length. The system then generates a hashing scheme based on the second length and a key computation time, where the hashing scheme includes a number of hashing rounds and a set of hashing functions. The system creates a synthetic key of the second length and uses the synthetic key and the hashing scheme to create a normal key of the first length, where the synthetic key permits a user to access the service by supplying the synthetic key and without having to supply the normal key. The disclosed cryptographic techniques may advantageously allow for memorization of private keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton, Suryatej Gundavelli
  • Publication number: 20210357917
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for an account rebalancing daemon for use with secure digital asset custodians. A service provider server, such as an electronic transaction processor, may provide cryptocurrency functions and operations associated with use of an online digital platform that trades and secures cryptocurrencies. The service provider may have a digital wallet that allows for storage of cryptocurrency on the online platform. However, these digital wallets may be vulnerable to computing exploits that may obtain cryptocurrencies through computing attacks, hacking operations, and the like. Thus, the service provider may provide for an automated daemon application or process that utilizes a secure digital wallet using secure computing hardware and authorizations to maintain a balance between the digital wallets to reduce risk. This daemon may automatically detect balance data and may execute operations to rebalance the digital wallets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventor: Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton