Recently, according to two patent applications released by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Thursday, the retail giant Wal-Mart plans to use blockchain technology to store payment data and ensure the security of payment data to ensure that private information will not be unauthorized. party access. According to reports, the two patent applications were filed on October 13 last year.
In March of this year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office also published a patent application filed by Walmart, which describes an intelligent package delivery tracking system built with blockchain technology, which can record on the blockchain. Packing content, required transportation environment, location and other information.
As early as 2016, Wal-Mart reached a strategic cooperation with IBM, using IBMs blockchain system and network to develop its own platform and deploy its business network. In December 2017, Wal-Mart, JD.com, IBM and Tsinghua University launched blockchain technology in China. Chain Food Safety Alliance.
In the new era of the Internet, while offline retail entities are actively seeking online teams, they are also deploying emerging technologies such as blockchain to increase their own business.
But what is even more noticeable is that in the blockchain + retail track, in addition to cooperating with IBM, Wal-Mart is also quietly deploying blockchain patent applications.
Coincidentally, within the same period of time,Amazon is also filing a patent on a streaming data marketplace.also,
also,Payments giant Mastercard is also the most active patent filer in the past five years, so far, the scale of MasterCards patent kingdom is not small.
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andFor China, where the blockchain concept is very popular, the number of patent applications is also very considerableAccording to 199IT, according to CCID Consultings survey, as of 2017, Chinese companies have submitted 550 patents related to blockchain technology, far exceeding the United States (284) and South Korea (192). Among them, Alis Ant Financial Services ranks first, and it is estimated that Chinas blockchain technology revenue will reach 512 million U.S. dollars in 2018.
When the blockchain is emerging, patent application is obviously a forward-looking method. With the popularization of blockchain technology in various industries, the future value is also worth looking forward to.
As many Internet companies pay more and more attention to patent applications, will a series of companies represented by Ali, MasterCard, and Wal-Mart lead the industry in 2018?
