US 12,169,814 B2
Blockchain-based transaction mechanisms
Joshua Mitchell Povsner, Ashburn, VA (US); Christopher Michael Carthy, Carmel, CA (US); and John Ellis Stafira, Dallas, TX (US)
Assigned to NATIONAL CURRENCY TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Ashburn, VA (US)
Filed by NATIONAL CURRENCY TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Ashburn, VA (US)
Filed on May 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/203,120.
Application 18/203,120 is a continuation of application No. 17/154,331, filed on Jan. 21, 2021, granted, now 11,741,439.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/963,907, filed on Jan. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0297977 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/00 (2012.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 20/065 (2013.01) [H04L 9/0618 (2013.01); G06Q 20/36 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05); H04L 2209/56 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for dedicating a set of digital tokens of a single type to a use, the method comprising:
obtaining a set of digital tokens of the single type at a first networked transaction node from a pool of digital tokens of the single type that includes the set of digital tokens of the single type; and
individually, separately and uniquely marking a record for each of the set of digital tokens of the single type with a first identifiable characteristic dedicated only to the set of digital tokens of the single type by adding data with the first identifiable characteristic and limited only to the set of digital tokens of the single type to the record for each of the set of digital tokens of the single type, wherein the set of digital tokens of the single type are exchangeable in transactions at a first value common to the pool of digital tokens of the single type, and at a second value common only to the set of digital tokens of the single type.