Method, apparatus and electronic device for blockchain transactions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11144918-B2
Application number	US-202016738055-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2020
Priority date	Aug 6, 2018
Publication date	Oct 12, 2021
Grant date	Oct 12, 2021

Abstract

A method comprises: selecting one or more blockchain assets from a remitter's blockchain account according to a transaction amount of a transaction to be remitted from the remitter's blockchain account into a receiver's blockchain account, wherein a total asset amount represented by the selected one or more blockchain assets is not less than the transaction amount, and a commitment of an individual asset amount represented by each of the selected one or more blockchain assets is recorded in a blockchain; generating a commitment of the transaction amount; and submitting to the blockchain the transaction comprising information of the selected one or more blockchain assets and the commitment of the transaction amount, for the selected one or more blockchain assets to be removed from the remitter's blockchain account and one or more blockchain assets corresponding to the commitment of the transaction amount to be added to the receiver's blockchain account.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for implementing blockchain-based transactions, comprising:
selecting, by a computing device associated with a remitter, one or more blockchain assets from a blockchain account of the remitter associated with a blockchain according to a transaction amount (t) of a transaction to be remitted from the remitter's blockchain account into a blockchain account of a receiver associated with the blockchain;
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, a commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t) by encrypting the transaction amount (t) based on a transaction random number (r);
sending, by the computing device associated with the remitter, the transaction random number (r), the transaction amount (t), and the commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t) to a computing device associated with the receiver via a channel off the blockchain;
generating, by the computing device associated with the receiver, a signature (SIGB) by signing at least the commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t) with a private key of the receiver;
obtaining, by the computing device associated with the remitter from the computing device associated with the receiver via the channel off the blockchain, the signature (SIGB);
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, a signature (SIGA) by signing at least the commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t) with a private key of the remitter;
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, an updated version of the transaction, the updated version of the transaction comprising the signature (SIGA), the signature (SIGB), and the commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t);
submitting, by the computing device associated with the remitter, the updated version of the transaction to a plurality of blockchain nodes of the blockchain for consensus verification;
performing, by the plurality of blockchain nodes of the blockchain, the consensus verification on the updated version of the transaction, wherein the consensus verification comprises each of the blockchain nodes verifying the signature (SIGA) and the signature (SIGB);
determining, by the plurality of blockchain nodes, that the consensus verification on the updated version of the transaction succeeds; and
based on the determining, updating, by the plurality of blockchain nodes, a balance of the blockchain account of the remitter and a balance of the blockchain account of the receiver to remit the transaction amount (t) from the blockchain account of the remitter to the blockchain account of the receiver.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the commitment (T) is Pederson Commitment.

3. The method of claim 1 , before generating the updated version of the transaction, further comprising:
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, a range proof, wherein the range proof is related to the transaction amount, and the updated version of the transaction comprises the range proof.

4. The method of claim 1 , before generating the updated version of the transaction, further comprising:
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, a commitment (T0) of a change amount (t0), wherein a total asset amount represented by the selected one or more blockchain assets exceeds the transaction amount, the change amount (t0) is a difference between the total asset amount of the selected one or more blockchain assets and the transaction amount, and the updated version of the transaction comprises the commitment (T0) of the change amount (t0).

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein:
a commitment (Mi) of an individual asset amount represented by each of the selected one or more blockchain assets is recorded in the blockchain, wherein the commitment (Mi) of the individual asset amount comprises an encryption of the individual asset amount (pi) based on an asset random number (ri), and wherein i is an integer no more than a number k of the selected one or more blockchain assets;
generating the commitment (T0) of the change amount (t0) comprises: encrypting the change amount (t0) based on a change random number (r0); and
before generating the updated version of the transaction, the method further comprises: generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, a verification random number (r′), wherein r′=r1+ . . . +rk−r−r0, and the updated version of the transaction comprises the verification random number (r′).

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising: verifying, by the plurality of blockchain nodes of the blockchain during the consensus verification, whether the input of the transaction is equal to the output of the transaction by determining whether a verification commitment (R′) corresponding to the verification random number r′ is equal to M1+ . . . +Mk−T−T0.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein generating the commitment (T0) of the change amount (t0) comprises: encrypting the change amount (t0) based on a change random number (r0).

8. The method of claim 4 , before generating the updated version of the transaction, further comprising:
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, a range proof, wherein the updated version of the transaction comprises the range proof.

9. The method of claim 5 , wherein the updated version of the transaction comprises the commitment (Mi) of each of the selected one or more blockchain assets.

10. A system for implementing blockchain-based transactions, comprising a computing device associated with a remitter, a computing device associated with a receiver, and a plurality of blockchain nodes of a blockchain, each of which comprises one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable memories coupled to the one or more processors and configured with instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to respectively perform operations comprising:
selecting, by the computing device associated with the remitter, one or more blockchain assets from a blockchain account of a remitter associated with the blockchain according to a transaction amount (t) of a transaction to be remitted from the remitter's blockchain account into a blockchain account of a receiver associated with the blockchain;
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, a commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t) by encrypting the transaction amount (t) based on a transaction random number (r);
sending, by the computing device associated with the remitter, the transaction random number (r), the transaction amount (t), and the commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t) to the computing device associated with the receiver via a channel off the blockchain;
generating, by the computing device associated with the receiver, a signature (SIGB) by signing at least the commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t) with a private key of the receiver;
obtaining, by the computing device associated with the remitter from the computing device associated with the receiver via the channel off the blockchain, the signature (SIGB);
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, a signature (SIGA) by signing at least the commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t) with a private key of the remitter;
generating, by the computing device associated with the remitter, an updated version of the transaction, the updated version of the transaction comprising the signature (SIGA), the signature (SIGB), and the commitment (T) of the transaction amount (t);
submitting, by the computing device associated with the remitter, the updated version of the transaction to the plurality of blockchain nodes of the blockchain for consensus verifi

Assignees

• Advanced New Technologies Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Wenbin
• Li Lichun
• Ma Baoli
• Liu Zheng
• Yin Shan

Classifications

• G06Q20/401

  Transaction verification · CPC title

• H04L9/50

  using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees · CPC title

• G06F16/2379

  Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing · CPC title

• H04L9/0637

  Modes of operation, e.g. cipher block chaining [CBC], electronic codebook [ECB] or Galois/counter mode [GCM] · CPC title

• G06Q20/383

  Anonymous user system · CPC title