Explore Patent-Protected Configurable Blockchain As A Service
U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,608,829 and 9,836,908
U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,608,829 and 9,836,908
Slidechain: Managed Blockchains Your Way. The security of immutable blockchains and the flexibility to adjust to changing conditions and customer needs in business, commerce, research, academia and government. Contact us at management@slidechain.net.
Review our U.S. patent 9,608,829 https://patents.google.com/patent/US9608829B2/en and 9,836,908 https://patents.google.com/patent/US9836908B2/en.
Cited by over 550 other patent applications as of April 2025.
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Our inventors include a veteran lawyer and Yale Law School graduate, presidential campaign consultants, and noted speakers and writers on blockchain technology since 2013.
Our two patents have been cited over 550 times by other patent applicants or patent examiners judging other patent applications.
Slidechain allows defined-access chains to secure your data. Change chain protocols as desired. Slidechain evolves with you. Ideal for governments, corporations, universities, hospitals. Others give you prefabricated, rigid systems that won't grow as you grow.
Our voting patent 9,829,908 understood before anyone else (applied in 2014) the untrustworthy election problem is not cured by fixing election-day conduct, but needs a holistic solution which recognizes elections will be viewed as legitimate only when people are confident that voting is limited only to valid, eligible participants. This requires voter registration data be collected and managed to ensure participation is restricted to those who meet eligibility and registration procedures. Individual slidechains within system can guard against "cross-contamination" performance issues. But the patented voting solution is easily adaptable to other event management use cases needing both credentialing (eligibility) and contest (game) functions, The slidechain patents can solve data management problems as diverse as:
Slidechain makes two evolutionary mprovements over conventional blockchain, allowing for modifications to the protocols such as rules governing how data is stored or interpreted, how block validity is verified, how consensus is achieved, and criteria for generating a new block,.
and accommodating multiple valid forks of a blockchain. We treat forks as great!
The key is the payload., the data stored in each block. It may relate to transactions, ownership, data, access protocols (such as restrictions or conditions), document versioning or anything else.. A payload can be a fixed size, or flexible, and provides the input for the hash, which produces the payload hash. Slidechain distinguishes between planned valid forks and invalid forks. A valid fork has a hash representing the root block (which is the genesis block for the new chain, the fork) which is also stored in the fork block. This creates a two way link where the fork block and root block each contain a hash reference to each other.
We see a block being able to self trigger a fork, and leave a code opening for the block owner (and only the owner) to activate this power. The new "trigger" portion of the code can then be a special "marker" in the new chain, while subsequent chain blocks would have their hashes contain summaries of all their predecessors. A fork block may store more than one authorized hash to create multiple authorized forks from a single fork block. These hashes are stored in a flexible structure that allows storage of one or more short hashes corresponding to one or more root blocks. The protocols for each valid fork may be stored in the fork block payload, or in the root (genesis) blocks for each authorized fork chain. Protocols are able to specify that a genesis or root chain remains valid, with no limit on how many forks branch from it. Our system reflects the vision for a protocol which enables future users to more fully own their blocks, fully customize rules for that block, and preserve the rules or rights of earlier chains, earlier blocks or earlier (and separate) forks
Check out this explanatory video, narrated by one of our inventors, introducing you to the slidechain concept.
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