Patents by Inventor MARTIN C. SINCLAIR

MARTIN C. SINCLAIR 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).

  • Runtime endorsement policy determination
    Patent number: 11238029
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a blockchain storage request from a client, where the blockchain storage request is signed by an endorser node dynamically selected at runtime, identifying performance information included in the blockchain storage request, determining whether the dynamic selection of the endorser node is valid based on the identified performance information, and in response to a determination that the dynamic selection is valid, storing the blockchain storage request in a data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin C. Sinclair, James McCulloch, Stephen Pipes
  • RUNTIME ENDORSEMENT POLICY DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20210256010
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a blockchain storage request from a client, where the blockchain storage request is signed by an endorser node dynamically selected at runtime, identifying performance information included in the blockchain storage request, determining whether the dynamic selection of the endorser node is valid based on the identified performance information, and in response to a determination that the dynamic selection is valid, storing the blockchain storage request in a data block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: MARTIN C. SINCLAIR, JAMES MCCULLOCH, STEPHEN PIPES