Patent №
US 6,957,331
Granted
2005-10-18
Filed 2001
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09759127
Byzantine Agreement requires a set of parties in a distributed system to agree on a value even if some parties are corrupted. The invention comprises a method for achieving agreement among participating network devices in an asynchronous network is disclosed that makes use of cryptography, specifically of threshold digital signatures and a distributed coin-tossing protocol.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 117670422
Assignors
KURSAWE, KLAUS, SHOUP, VICTOR, CACHIN, CHRISTIAN
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