Granted Patent B2

US 12,328,382 · App. 18/421,885 · Granted Jun 10, 2025

Inventors: Craig Steven Wright (London, GB); Stephane Savanah (London, GB)

Assignee: NCHAIN LICENSING AG

H04L9/0618G06F8/31G06F8/41G06F8/433G06F8/443G06F8/452G06F8/51H04L9/0637H04L9/0643H04L9/3247H04L9/3297H04L9/50H04L2209/56

Abstract

Claims (27)

1. A method to implement control flow activities on a blockchain network, comprising:

determining how a logic is to be controlled and stored as a portion of code;

generating an input by a computing resource as a result of a computation;

retrieving the stored portion of code;

inserting, based on the input, the stored portion of code into a blockchain transaction script associated with a blockchain transaction on the blockchain network; and

executing the blockchain transaction script, wherein executing the blockchain transaction script provides a functionality of a control flow mechanism to implement the control flow activities on the blockchain network, and wherein a behavior of the functionality of the control flow mechanism is controlled or influenced by the input.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the blockchain transaction script is associated with an input of the blockchain transaction or an output of the blockchain transaction.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the blockchain transaction is generated in accordance with a block chain protocol.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the blockchain protocol is a Bitcoin protocol or a variant of the Bitcoin protocol.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising inserting the stored portion of code into the blockchain transaction script more than once.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising using the input to determine how many times at least one portion of code is inserted into the blockchain transaction script.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the control flow mechanism is a loop, and wherein the logic comprises a statement that is executed per iteration of the loop.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the input is derived from a compiler arranged to translate code from a High Level Language (HLL) into the blockchain transaction script.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the stored portion of code includes a counter or index that is incremented at least once upon execution of the blockchain transaction script, and wherein the counter or index is used to control or influence the execution of the blockchain transaction script.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the counter or index is incremented or otherwise manipulated using values stored in two stack-based data structures.

11. A computer-implemented system comprising:

an electronic device;

one or more processors coupled to the electronic device; and

a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement the method of claim 1 .

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, configure the processor to perform the method of claim 1 .

13. An electronic device comprising:

an interface device;

a processor coupled to the interface device; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having stored thereon computer executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to perform the method of claim 1 .

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:

the control flow mechanism is a selection control mechanism comprising a switch statement; and

the logic comprises a plurality of statements to be executed for each option of the switch statement.

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