Patents by Inventor William Blake Copeland

William Blake Copeland 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).

  • PROOF OF PLAY BLOCKCHAIN MINING
    Publication number: 20230377417
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for proof of play (PoP) blockchain mining. In some implementations, a corresponding method may include providing a set of one or more task parameters for a group task to each of two or more users; responsive to a consensus among the two or more users, storing a start-task transaction that includes the set of one or more task parameters signed by each of the two or more users; storing an end-task transaction at an address of a blockchain; determining respective rewards for at least a subset of the two or more users based at least on the start-task transaction and the end-task transaction; and recording the respective rewards in the blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: William Blake Copeland
  • Proof of play blockchain mining
    Patent number: 11823531
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for proof of play (PoP) blockchain mining. In some implementations, a corresponding method may include providing a set of one or more task parameters for a group task to each of two or more users; responsive to a consensus among the two or more users, storing a start-task transaction that includes the set of one or more task parameters signed by each of the two or more users; storing an end-task transaction at an address of a blockchain; determining respective rewards for at least a subset of the two or more users based at least on the start-task transaction and the end-task transaction; and recording the respective rewards in the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GAD Research, LLC
    Inventor: William Blake Copeland
  • PROOF OF PLAY BLOCKCHAIN MINING
    Publication number: 20230360479
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for proof of play (PoP) blockchain mining. In some implementations, a corresponding method may include providing a set of one or more task parameters for a group task to each of two or more users; responsive to a consensus among the two or more users, storing a start-task transaction that includes the set of one or more task parameters signed by each of the two or more users; storing an end-task transaction at an address of a blockchain; determining respective rewards for at least a subset of the two or more users based at least on the start-task transaction and the end-task transaction; and recording the respective rewards in the blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: GAD Research, LLC
    Inventor: William Blake Copeland