US Patent Issued to Institut Mines Telecom on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for implementing linear view-change in a byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) protocol" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,734, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Institut Mines Telecom (Palaiseau, France).

"Systems and methods for implementing linear view-change in a byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) protocol" was invented by Matthieu Rambaud (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing linear view-change in a BFT protocol running on a distributed system including n replicas, wherein no more than t of the n replicas are faulty, and wherein the BFT protocol enables the non-faulty replicas to agree on how to sequence execution of a plurality of service operations originating from one or more clients. The method including executin...