Patents by Inventor Liam Grace

Liam Grace 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).

  • Building trusted public blockchain networks based on participants' digital social behavior
    Patent number: 10924489
    Abstract: A method is disclosed including receiving a request for changing a privilege of a peer of the public blockchain network, in response to receiving the request for changing the privilege, automatically submitting a trust query to a trust verification entity, receiving from the trust verification entity, a trust score associated with the peer, comparing the received trust score to a pre-determined threshold, determining, based on the comparison, that the trust score is greater than the pre-determined threshold, in response to determining that the trust score is greater than the pre-determined threshold, automatically voting that the request be granted, receiving votes of other privileged peers of the public blockchain network, determining that a number of the votes for granting the request is sufficient to grant the request, and in response to determining that the number of votes is sufficient, automatically executing the requested changing of the privilege of the peer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fenglian Xu, Jake Turner, Liam Grace, Anastasia Paterson
  • BUILDING TRUSTED PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN NETWORKS BASED ON PARTICIPANTS' DIGITAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
    Publication number: 20190230089
    Abstract: A method is disclosed including receiving a request for changing a privilege of a peer of the public blockchain network, in response to receiving the request for changing the privilege, automatically submitting a trust query to a trust verification entity, receiving from the trust verification entity, a trust score associated with the peer, comparing the received trust score to a pre-determined threshold, determining, based on the comparison, that the trust score is greater than the pre-determined threshold, in response to determining that the trust score is greater than the pre-determined threshold, automatically voting that the request be granted, receiving votes of other privileged peers of the public blockchain network, determining that a number of the votes for granting the request is sufficient to grant the request, and in response to determining that the number of votes is sufficient, automatically executing the requested changing of the privilege of the peer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Fenglian Xu, Jake Turner, Liam Grace, Anastasia Paterson