CN109101607B

CN109101607B - Method, apparatus and storage medium for searching blockchain data

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Publication number: CN109101607B
Application number: CN201810877497.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 肖诗源
Original assignee: Shanghai Dianrong Information Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Dianrong Information Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2018-08-03
Filing date: 2018-08-03
Publication date: 2021-03-30
Anticipated expiration: 2038-08-03
Also published as: CN109101607A; WO2020024898A1

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for searching blockchain data, the method comprising: A. receiving a web page reading request sent by a search engine via a hypertext transfer protocol interface, wherein the web page reading request comprises a first uniform resource location address; B. obtaining information associated with a blockchain and first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address; C. determining whether at least one second uniform resource locator address exists, wherein second blockchain data at the at least one second uniform resource locator address is associated with the first blockchain data; D. under the condition that the at least one second uniform resource positioning address exists, generating a webpage associated with the first uniform resource positioning address according to the first block chain data and the at least one second uniform resource positioning address; returning the web page and information associated with the blockchain to the search engine via the hypertext transfer protocol interface.

Description

Method, apparatus and storage medium for searching blockchain data

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to a blockchain search technology, and more particularly, to a method for searching blockchain data, an apparatus for searching blockchain data for performing the method for searching blockchain data, and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium.

Background

The search engine is a system for automatically collecting information from the world wide web, and providing the information for users to inquire after certain arrangement. In the process of gathering information by a search engine, it uses a hyperlink called a web crawler (Spider) to link to each web page. The web crawler program, based on the hyperlinks to web pages linked thereto, starts with a few web pages and links to all other web pages on the web, just as it says "ten-to-ten and ten-to-hundred … …" in daily life. In theory, if there are appropriate hyperlinks on a web page, the web crawler can traverse most web pages.

Blockchains (Blockchain) are intelligent peer-to-peer networks that use distributed databases to identify, disseminate, and document information, also known as value internet. The value internet means that users can conveniently, quickly and inexpensively transmit values through a network.

Disclosure of Invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for searching blockchain data such that a search engine may gather information from a blockchain network and simultaneously obtain information associated with blockchains, such as the number of nodes of the blockchain, identity information of owners of the nodes of the blockchain, and/or the number of owners of the nodes of the blockchain, thereby enabling search services for the blockchain network and ranking of search results according to the information associated with the blockchain.

To this end, in a first aspect thereof the embodiments of the present invention provide a method for searching blockchain data, the method comprising:

A. receiving a web page reading request sent by a search engine via a hypertext transfer protocol interface, wherein the web page reading request comprises a first uniform resource location address;

B. obtaining information associated with a blockchain and first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address;

C. determining whether at least one second uniform resource locator address exists, wherein second blockchain data at the at least one second uniform resource locator address is associated with the first blockchain data;

D. under the condition that the at least one second uniform resource positioning address exists, generating a webpage associated with the first uniform resource positioning address according to the first block chain data and the at least one second uniform resource positioning address; and

E. returning the web page and information associated with the blockchain to the search engine via the hypertext transfer protocol interface.

Furthermore, a second aspect of embodiments of the present invention also provides an apparatus for searching blockchain data, the data apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory for storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

Furthermore, a third aspect of embodiments of the present invention provides a method for searching blockchain data, the method comprising:

receiving, from a blockchain link point, a webpage generated from its blockchain data and information associated with the blockchain;

n, receiving a search request;

obtaining search results associated with a blockchain from a database based on the search request, wherein the database is used for storing an index generated by the web page; and

sorting the search results based on information associated with the blockchain.

A fourth aspect of embodiments of the present invention provides an apparatus for searching blockchain data, the apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory for storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

n, receiving a search request;

sorting the search results based on information associated with the blockchain.

A fifth aspect of embodiments of the present invention provides a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer readable program instructions for executing the method for searching blockchain data according to the first aspect of embodiments of the present invention.

A sixth aspect of embodiments of the present invention provides a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer readable program instructions for executing the method for searching blockchain data according to the third aspect of embodiments of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the block link point also returns information associated with the block chain (for example, the number of nodes of the block chain, identity information of owners of the nodes of the block chain, and/or the number of owners of the nodes of the block chain, etc.) to the search engine, so that the search engine can sort the search results based on the information associated with the block chain, optimize the sorting results, and enable a user of the search engine to obtain the search results quickly and accurately. In addition, the block chain node can process the request sent by the search engine by adding a hypertext transfer protocol interface; moreover, the block chain data are generated into the webpage, so that the search engine can acquire, process and store the block chain data displayed in the form of the webpage; in addition, by adding the uniform resource location address into the generated webpage, the search engine can traverse the block chain data in a mode of traversing the webpage. Therefore, by the embodiment of the invention, the search engine can retrieve the block chain data, so that a user of the search engine can search the information existing in the block chain through the search engine, namely, the search service aiming at the block chain network is realized. In addition to the advantages described above, other advantages of the present invention will be further described below.

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The features, advantages and other aspects of various embodiments of the present invention will become more apparent by referring to the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which several embodiments of the invention are shown by way of illustration and not limitation, wherein:

FIG. 1 shows a flow diagram of a method 100 for searching blockchain data according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 illustrates a diagram 200 of keyed blockchain data having an attribute A1;

FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram 300 of ledgers for storing public and private data;

fig. 4 shows an example of blockchain data 400 having an attribute a2 stored in a Key Value (Key/Value) manner; and

FIG. 5 shows a flow diagram of a method 500 for searching blockchain data according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an apparatus 600 for searching blockchain data according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an apparatus 700 for searching blockchain data according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Various exemplary embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although the exemplary methods, apparatus, and devices described below include software and/or firmware executed on hardware among other components, it should be noted that these examples are merely illustrative and should not be considered as limiting. For example, it is contemplated that any or all of the hardware, software, and firmware components could be embodied exclusively in hardware, exclusively in software, or in any combination of hardware and software. Thus, while the following describes example methods and apparatus, persons of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate that the examples provided are not intended to limit the manner in which the methods and apparatus may be implemented.

Furthermore, the flowchart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of methods and systems according to various embodiments of the present invention. It should be noted that the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems which perform the specified functions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.

The term "reading" in the term "web page reading request" in the present disclosure includes that the search engine crawls the web page and the user obtains the web page through the user device, wherein obtaining the web page through the user device specifically means that the user queries or browses the web page generated by the blockchain data through the user device.

The term "user equipment" in the context of the present invention refers to a smart terminal including, but not limited to, a smartphone, a tablet, a desktop, a laptop.

The term "Uniform Resource Locator address" in the present disclosure refers to an address of a standard Resource on the internet, which is also called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a web page address. Accordingly, the term "first uniform resource locator" in the disclosure of the present invention refers to the current level of uniform resource locator, i.e. the current level of URL, when the method for searching blockchain data according to the present invention is executed; the term "second URL" in the present disclosure refers to a next URL, which is a next URL when the method for searching blockchain data according to the present invention is performed.

The term "first blockchain data" in this disclosure refers to blockchain data at a first uniform resource location address in a blockchain; correspondingly, the term "second blockchain data" in the context of the present invention refers to blockchain data at a second uniform resource location address in the blockchain.

The term "public data" in the context of the present invention refers to data that is accessible without authentication, whereas "private data" refers to data that is accessible without authentication.

The term "attribute a 1" in the context of the present invention refers to a data format name for indicating a data parsing method of the blockchain data or a data format parsing function name, a data format parsing service address, or a data format parsing smart contract address for indicating a data parsing method of the blockchain data. And the term "attribute a 2" is used to mark blockchain data as private or public, where "attribute a 2" has a first value when the blockchain data is public data, and "attribute a 2" has a second value different from the first value when the blockchain data is private data.

The terms "first" and "second" in this summary are used merely to describe a reference, an object, or something specific, and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implying any number of technical features indicated.

The term "plurality" in the context of the present invention means two or more.

The present invention has appeared in the context of the present invention the terms "retrieve" and "search", where the term "retrieve" refers to the process of crawling, processing, indexing and traversing blockchain data by a search engine through a web crawler, and the term "search" refers to the search engine receiving a search of previously indexed web content after a user has entered keywords on a search engine page.

The expression "second blockchain data at the at least one second uniform resource locator address is associated with the first blockchain data" in the present disclosure means that the hierarchical attribute and the predetermined hierarchical relationship tree included in the first blockchain data indicate whether there is an association relationship of the second blockchain data at the second uniform resource locator address.

The term "hierarchical relationship tree" in the context of the present invention refers to a predetermined logical relationship tree that indicates the hierarchical structure of the web page generated by the accessed blockchain data.

The term "hierarchical attribute" in the context of the present invention refers to information indicating to which level in the hierarchical relationship tree described above the uniform resource locator address associated with the read web page belongs.

The term "first attribute" in the present disclosure is used to mark blockchain data as private or public, wherein the term "first value" indicates that the blockchain data associated therewith is public data, and the term "second value" indicates that the blockchain data associated therewith is private data.

The term "public ledger" in the context of the present invention refers to a blockchain ledger in which only public data is stored that is accessible without authentication.

The term "privacy ledger" in the context of the present invention refers to a blockchain ledger in which only privacy data that requires authentication to be accessible is stored.

The term "public area of the ledger" in the context of the present invention refers to an area in the ledger for storing public data.

The term "privacy zone of the ledger" in the context of the present invention refers to a zone in the ledger for storing privacy data.

As described above, users of search engines cannot search for data located on blockchains through current search engines. In order to implement a search service with excellent performance for a blockchain network, embodiments of the present invention mainly focus on the following problems: the search engine cannot currently retrieve the blockchain data, so that a user of the search engine cannot search the blockchain data.

In addition to the above main technical problems, various technical solutions of embodiments of the present invention can also solve the problem that the current blockchain node cannot process a hypertext transfer protocol request sent by a search engine; secondly, the current search engine stores the retrieved web pages in a database, and directly acquires corresponding web page information from the database to provide the web page information for the user after receiving the search request of the user. However, in a blockchain network, information is stored in a specific data format, not in the form of web page text. Moreover, current web search engines traverse information in the network by crawling web pages with a web crawler, but current search engines cannot traverse blockchain data in a blockchain network.

Moreover, since current search engines are not capable of searching for data located on the blockchain, current search engines are not concerned with ranking search results derived from blockchain data according to information associated with the blockchain.

In addition, the public data is searched by the current search engine, and the blockchain network may store the public data and the private data at the same time, and the public data and the private data are distinguished in the searching process.

To solve these problems and implement a search service for blockchain networks, an embodiment of the present invention first provides a hypertext transfer protocol interface, which is located, for example, in a blockchain node, so that the blockchain node can process a hypertext transfer protocol request sent by a search engine. In the case where the search engine is enabled to retrieve blockchain data, the blockchain will also return to the search engine information associated with the blockchain, including at least one of: namely, the number of nodes of the blockchain, the identity information of the owners of the nodes of the blockchain, the number of owners of the nodes of the blockchain, the creation time of the blockchain, the joining time of the nodes of the blockchain, and the like, so that the search engine can sort the search results after grasping the information, the most accurate search result is displayed in front, and the user of the search engine can obtain the most accurate information.

In addition, the embodiment of the invention also provides a method for converting data in a specific data format, such as XML or JSON, into the webpage. Furthermore, the embodiment of the invention adds the uniform resource positioning address of other web pages into the web page as information, so that the search engine can be linked to other web pages through the web page, and the web page capturing function aiming at the block chain network is realized. In addition, the embodiment of the invention also performs distinguishing processing on public data and private data in the blockchain network. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention enable a search engine to optimize the ranking of search results according to information associated with blockchains by additionally returning information associated with blockchains, such as the number of nodes of blockchains, identity information of owners of the nodes of blockchains, and/or the number of owners of the nodes of blockchains when returning web pages. For a more specific implementation and other advantages of the present invention, reference is made to the following description.

Fig. 1 shows a flow chart of the method 100 for searching blockchain data, and as can be seen from fig. 1, the method 100 includes at least five steps of first receiving a web page read request sent by a search engine via a hypertext transfer protocol interface in a method step 110, the web page read request including a first uniform resource locator address; then in method step 120 information associated with the blockchain and first blockchain data at the first uniform resource locator address are obtained; next, in a method step 130, it is determined whether at least one second uniform resource locator address is present, wherein second blockchain data at the at least one second uniform resource locator address is associated with the first blockchain data; then in method step 140, in the presence of the at least one second uniform resource locator address, a web page associated with the first uniform resource locator address is generated from the first blockchain data and the at least one second uniform resource locator address; finally, the web page and the information associated with the blockchain are returned to the search engine via the hypertext transfer protocol interface in a method step 150.

By providing an internet access interface on the one hand and an information return system on the other hand to a search engine that generates web pages associated with data in blockchain data from the blockchain data and then returns the web pages and the information associated with the blockchain to the search engine, the search engine can traverse the web pages associated with the blockchain data to obtain search results and optimize the ranking of the search results according to the information associated with the blockchain, thereby enabling and optimizing the search of the blockchain data by the search engine.

The implementation of how to generate a web page associated with data in blockchain data can be varied. For example, the data of the blockchain pointed by the first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) can be generated in the web page, and in the case that at least one second Uniform Resource Locator (URL) exists, the second URL can also be presented on the web page, so that the web page can include both the data of the blockchain and the URL. In the case of multiple uniform resource locator address URLs, these uniform resource locator address URLs can be arranged sequentially on the web page. This can also be achieved by generating a logical search tree associated with the data in the blockchain data from its logical relationship.

When specifically capturing web page information, the search engine side may add a function that the search engine may access an entry address (e.g., http:// test. com. homepage) of the block chain, so that the search engine can access the block chain. After receiving a web page read request, the blockchain side first obtains first blockchain data at a uniform resource locator URL according to the uniform resource locator URL included in the web page read request and obtains information associated with the blockchain, such as the number of nodes of the blockchain, identity information of owners of the nodes of the blockchain, and/or the number of owners of the nodes of the blockchain, and then determines whether there is another uniform resource locator URL. If the predetermined hierarchical relationship tree indicates that at least one second uniform resource locator exists, the second uniform resource locator is also placed in the generated web page.

The web page and information associated with the blockchain are then returned to the search engine. After receiving the returned webpage, the search engine can directly extract the blockchain data and the access address thereof, and can further initiate a further webpage reading request to the blockchain network side to capture subsequent blockchain data.

Specifically, when the web page is generated, the hierarchical attribute included in the blockchain data can also play a very important role, and whether at least one second uniform resource locator URL exists or not is determined according to the hierarchical attribute included in the first blockchain data and a predetermined hierarchical relationship tree. Specifically, for example, if the hierarchical attribute of the blockchain data a is "finance", and the predetermined hierarchical relationship tree indicates that there is blockchain data B having the hierarchical attribute of "finance/blockchain finance", then the blockchain data B is the next-level blockchain data of the blockchain data a. If the web page read request is to fetch the blockchain data a having the hierarchical attribute of "finance", the uniform resource location address URL pointing to the blockchain data B having the hierarchical attribute of "finance/blockchain finance" is also generated on the web page, i.e., the generated web page includes the uniform resource location address URL pointing to the blockchain data B having the hierarchical attribute of "finance/blockchain finance".

For another example, if the hierarchical attribute of the blockchain data C is "china", and the predetermined hierarchical relationship tree indicates that there is another blockchain data D whose hierarchical attribute is "china/shanghai", the blockchain data D is the next-level blockchain data of the blockchain data C. If the webpage reading request is to capture the blockchain data C with the hierarchical attribute of "china", the uniform resource location address URL pointing to the blockchain data D with the hierarchical attribute of "china/shanghai" is also generated on the webpage, that is, the generated webpage contains the uniform resource location address URL pointing to the blockchain data D with the hierarchical attribute of "china/shanghai".

There is also a possibility that there is no other URL, and the web page can be generated only according to the blockchain data pointed to by the URL included in the web page read request.

In addition, in order to achieve correct resolution of the blockchain data associated with the link address through the link address, the inventor of the present disclosure proposes to configure an attribute a1 for the blockchain data, where the attribute a1 is used to specify the resolution mode of the blockchain data. For example, the attribute a1 includes a data format name indicating a data parsing method of the block chain data. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that this attribute a1 can also include a data format resolution function name, a data format resolution service address, or a data format resolution smart contract address for indicating a data resolution method for the public data and the private data.

At this time, when the search engine accesses the entry address, the attribute A1 indicates a specific data format (e.g., XML, JSON, etc.) of each data in K/V/A1 of the data; when the search engine accesses the entry address, a data list which can be searched on the block chain is displayed, and when the search engine searches any K value, the block chain calls a corresponding analysis method according to the value of the corresponding attribute A1 to analyze the data and generate a corresponding webpage.

In addition, each chunk link point may implement an HTTP server to which the domain name HTTP:// test. com. homepage points. The page may show the content of a part of K/V, and usually it cannot be shown all at once, because it is too large to show the page all at once, and at the same time, the search engine can search other K/V data by means of links such as the next page, even page 10 (http:// test. And simultaneously displaying the content of a single K/V in a link form of http:// test.com.homepage ═ applet, and defining the content by different page templates as to how to present the content specifically. The attribute a1 may be a function name for format resolution or an address of a format resolution service, in addition to the specific data format name used to indicate the data format. It can also be represented by a content code such as 1, 2, 3, which is more compact and saves storage space.

Fig. 2 shows a schematic diagram 200 of keyed blockchain data having an attribute a1, and as can be seen from fig. 2, blockchain data such as K1, Kn includes an attribute a1, and the attribute a1 includes a data format name for representing a data parsing method of the blockchain data such as K1, Kn. Alternatively, the blockchain data such as K1 and the blockchain data such as Kn can also include a data format resolution function name, a data format resolution service address, or a data format resolution smart contract address for indicating a data resolution method of the blockchain data. As can be seen from fig. 2, the blockchain data such as K1 has a Value of attribute a1 of "XML", which indicates that its Value (Value) is resolved in an XML parsing method, and correspondingly, the blockchain data such as Kn has a Value of attribute a1 of "JSON", which indicates that its Value (Value) is resolved in a JSON parsing method. That is, calling a corresponding parsing function or parsing method can parse out the blockchain data of each K1, Kn, etc.

In implementing the above-described link addresses, it is also necessary to follow the Robots protocol to which the search engine needs to adhere. Specifically, the Robots Protocol is also called a crawler Protocol, a robot Protocol, and the like, and is called a "web crawler Exclusion standard" (Robots Exclusion Protocol), and the website tells a search engine which pages can be crawled and which pages cannot be crawled through the Robots Protocol.

Specifically, for each link address in the portal page, the Robots protocol also needs to inform the search engine which link addresses can be traversed and which link addresses cannot be traversed. However, the Robots protocol only informs a search engine which link addresses should be traversed and which link addresses should not be traversed to achieve the retrieval of blockchain data, and cannot guarantee that the search engine will certainly well comply with the Robots protocol, so the inventors of the present disclosure innovatively contemplate utilizing the properties of blockchain data itself to achieve control over the search behavior of the search engine, for example, blockchain data disclosed according to the present disclosure includes public data and private data, wherein the public data is data that can be accessed without verification and the private data is data that can be accessed without verification, and wherein the public data and the private data are stored at different locations of the blockchain or have different labels.

The reason for setting this attribute a2 is that in the currently mainstream blockchain platform, the public chain does not set any restriction on access to blockchain data, and a alliance chain such as Fabric, Corda and the like has access right control to all data in all blockchain data. It can be seen that the blockchain platform has the same access control for data with different requirements and does not have the capability of different access control. Generally, enterprise-level blockchains generally use a federation chain platform, and access rights control is performed on all data, so that information that needs to be disclosed cannot be retrieved by an external search engine. For example, an insurance sales system implemented using a blockchain, wherein information such as insurance prices, terms, etc. in the blockchain is desired to be retrievable by a search engine without authorization; but other information, such as user information, transaction information, claims records, etc., is required to be access-controlled, which is not beneficial to protecting the privacy of the client and the trade secrets of the insurance company.

In particular, the way in which public data and private data are stored at different locations of a blockchain or have different tags can be varied.

For example, fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram 300 of ledger book for storing public data and private data, and it can be seen from the diagram that the blockchain network includes a plurality of ledgers, for example nine ledgers such as

ledgers

301, 302, …, 308, 309, etc., it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the nine ledgers are shown here only for exemplary purposes and not for limitation, and those skilled in the art can certainly realize more or less ledgers, and how to realize the number of ledgers is not critical to the content of the present invention, and the key point is to distinguish the plurality of ledgers, for example, the first ledger, namely ledger book 301, is marked as a public ledger book, that is, only the above-mentioned public data, such as insurance price, clause, etc. information in the above-mentioned blockchain, is stored thereon; while eight ledgers, namely ledgers 302, …, 308, 309, are marked as private ledgers, on which only private data, such as user information, transaction information, claims records, etc., are stored. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the number of public and private ledgers can be dynamically configured according to the proportion of data and private data that need to be disclosed on the blockchain. Therefore, the data on the blockchain network can be distinguished and treated, and guarantee is provided for the subsequent search service of the data on the blockchain.

Alternatively, for example, the first ledger 301 can also be divided into two different areas, public data being stored in the first area and private data being stored in the second area, whereby differentiated treatment of data on the blockchain network can also be achieved, so that a subsequent search service for data on the blockchain is guaranteed.

In the above manner, the public data and the private data are marked by storing the public data and the private data on different accounts or storing the public data and the private data on different areas of the same account, so that the public data and the private data can be distinguished based on the type of the account or the type of the area of the account in the subsequent searching stage, and support is provided for the subsequent searching.

Additionally or alternatively, the storing of public data and private data at different locations of the blockchain or having different labels for the public data and the private data can also be achieved in other ways, for example by means of additional attribute fields, in particular public data and private data may comprise an attribute a2, wherein the public data has an attribute a2, for example 0, and the private data has an attribute a2, for example 1.

For example, each blockchain data can include an attribute a2, where the attribute a2 is, for example, 0, indicating that the blockchain data is public data, and when the attribute a2 is a second value of 1, indicating that the blockchain data is private data. Compared with the technical scheme that public data and private data are stored in different accounts or different areas of the same account, the technical scheme that the disclosed dynamic adjustment is adopted and the additional attribute A2 indicating that the blockchain data are the public data or the private data allows an administrator to dynamically adjust in real time in the operation process of the blockchain, so that the dynamic maintainability of the data is improved.

Fig. 4 shows an example of data 400 stored in a Key Value manner, and as can be seen from fig. 4, the Value of the first blockchain data K1 is V1, and the attribute a2 is 0, which indicates that the first blockchain data K1 is public data, and an external search engine can access the public data without any access control or verification; the nth blockchain data Kn has a value Vn and an attribute a2 of 1, which indicates that the blockchain data Kn is private data that an external search engine can access by using access control or authentication. That is, the public data K1 and the private data Kn are stored in a key manner, and the public data has an attribute a2 of 0, while the private data has an attribute a2 of 1. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the setting of the value of the attribute a2 to 0 or 1 is only exemplary and not limiting, and other technical solutions that can implement the inventive concept disclosed in the present disclosure without departing from the inventive spirit of the present disclosure are also included in the scope of the appended claims.

Aiming at the technical problem that access to blockchain data on a blockchain network cannot guarantee that search requirements of a search engine, such as Robots protocol, can not be met, the inventor of the present disclosure innovatively realizes that the search engine can be adapted by modifying attributes of data on the blockchain network, so as to achieve the purpose of searching data on the blockchain network based on the search engine, and in addition, privacy protection of the blockchain to partial data needing privacy protection can be met while achieving retrieval.

The method for searching the blockchain data can disclose the shared data to be accessed without access control and the data retention access control requiring privacy protection; on the other hand, an internal mechanism and an interface for access retrieval are defined, so that not only can external webpage links be directly linked with public data in the block chain, but also the public data in the block chain can be mutually linked, and a search engine can perform traversal retrieval on all information in the block chain. In addition, the solution provided by the invention can realize the interconnection and intercommunication of the block chain and the internet information, and further bring the huge value of the block chain into play.

In addition, there is a need for corresponding improvements on the search engine side. In particular, fig. 5 shows a flow diagram of a method 500 for searching blockchain data according to another embodiment of the invention. As can be seen, the method 500 for searching blockchain data includes at least four steps of first receiving a web page generated from its blockchain data and information associated with the blockchain from a blockchain link point in method step 510; then a search request is received in method step 520; in method step 530, search results associated with a blockchain are obtained from a database for storing an index generated from the web page based on the search request; finally, the search results are sorted based on the information associated with the blockchain in method step 540.

The block chain mentioned in the above method is the block chain to which the block link point belongs.

In one embodiment according to the invention, the information associated with the blockchain comprises at least one of: i.e. the number of nodes of the block chain; identity information of an owner of a node of the blockchain; a number of owners of nodes of the blockchain; a creation time of the blockchain; a joining time of a node of the blockchain.

Specifically, for example, a block chain sales air conditioning product. A block chain has a number of members (appliance manufacturer shelf, insurance company, a national maintenance facilitator). The user can automatically and safely put on insurance when purchasing a qualified air conditioner on the block chain, and can also automatically register and obtain after-sales service on a maintenance service provider. While the other blockchain, although it is also a retail air conditioner, has only 2 members (e.g., unknown appliance manufacturer, unknown insurance company, no maintenance service provider). The end user searches both of the above results when searching for air-conditioning products on the search engine, but after the search engine integrates the information associated with the blockchain (e.g., the number of nodes of the blockchain; identity information of the owner of the nodes of the blockchain; and/or the number of owners of the nodes of the blockchain), it is clear that the lattice air-conditioning on the first blockchain should be preferentially displayed.

Further, alternatively, the above-described method can be implemented by a computer program product, i.e., a computer-readable storage medium. The computer program product may include a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program instructions embodied thereon for carrying out various aspects of the present disclosure. The computer readable storage medium may be a tangible device that can hold and store the instructions for use by the instruction execution device. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic memory device, a magnetic memory device, an optical memory device, an electromagnetic memory device, a semiconductor memory device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer readable storage medium would include the following: a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanical coding device, such as punch cards or in-groove projection structures having instructions stored thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. Computer-readable storage media as used herein is not to be construed as transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freely propagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagating through a waveguide or other transmission medium (e.g., optical pulses through a fiber optic cable), or electrical signals transmitted through electrical wires.

Fig. 6 shows a block diagram of an apparatus 600 for searching blockchain data according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As can be seen in fig. 6, an apparatus 600 for searching blockchain data includes a processor 610 and a memory 620 coupled to the processor 610.

The memory 620 stores instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor 610, cause the processor 610 to perform the following acts:

In one embodiment consistent with the present disclosure, the instructions, when executed, cause the processor 610 to further perform the following:

E1. and generating the webpage according to the first block chain data under the condition that the at least one second uniform resource positioning address does not exist.

In one embodiment consistent with the present disclosure, the information associated with the blockchain includes at least one of: i.e. the number of nodes of the block chain; identity information of an owner of a node of the blockchain; a number of owners of nodes of the blockchain; a creation time of the blockchain; a joining time of a node of the blockchain.

In an embodiment consistent with the present disclosure, the determining whether at least one second uniform resource locator address exists further includes:

D1. and judging whether the at least one second uniform resource location address exists according to the hierarchy attribute included in the first block chain data and a predetermined hierarchy relation tree.

In one embodiment consistent with the present disclosure, b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource locator address further comprises:

B1. resolving the first blockchain data at the first uniform resource locator address according to a data format name of the first blockchain data.

B2. resolving first blockchain data at the first uniform resource locator address according to a data format resolution function name, a data format resolution service address, or a data format resolution smart contract address of the first blockchain data.

In one embodiment consistent with the present disclosure, the first blockchain data and/or the second blockchain data includes a first attribute, and wherein b.

B3. Determining whether to acquire first blockchain data at the first uniform resource locator address according to a first attribute of the first blockchain data.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the first blockchain data and/or the second blockchain data are stored in a key manner.

In one embodiment according to the present disclosure, in a case where the first blockchain data is public data, the first attribute of the first blockchain data is a first value; in a case where the second blockchain data is public data, the first attribute of the second blockchain data is the first value; in a case where the first blockchain data is private data, the first attribute of the first blockchain data is a second value different from the first value; the first attribute of the second blockchain data is the second value in a case where the second blockchain data is private data.

B4. determining whether to acquire first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address according to an ledger storage location of the first blockchain data,

wherein, in a case that the first or second blockchain data is public data, the first or second blockchain data is stored in a public ledger; and in the event that the first or second blockchain data is private data, storing the first or second blockchain data in a private ledger.

B5. determining whether to acquire first blockchain data at the first uniform resource locator address according to a storage area location of the first blockchain data,

wherein, in a case where the first or second blockchain data is public data, the first or second blockchain data is stored in a public area of an account book; and in the case that the first or second blockchain data is private data, storing the first or second blockchain data in a private area of an account book.

In the above manner, the public data and the private data are marked by storing the public data and the private data on different accounts or storing the public data and the private data on different areas of the same account, so that the public data and the private data can be distinguished based on the type of the account or the type of the area of the account in the subsequent searching stage, thereby providing support for the subsequent searching.

The memory 620 can also store other instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor 610, cause the processor 610 to perform the following acts:

n, receiving a search request;

sorting the search results based on information associated with the blockchain.

In one embodiment according to the invention, the information associated with the blockchain comprises at least one of: the number of nodes of the block chain; identity information of an owner of a node of the blockchain; a number of owners of nodes of the blockchain; a creation time of the blockchain; a joining time of a node of the blockchain.

Fig. 7 shows a schematic block diagram of an apparatus 700 for searching blockchain data. It should be understood that the apparatus 700 may be implemented to implement the functionality of the method 500 for searching blockchain data in fig. 5. As can be seen in fig. 7, the apparatus 700 for a database comprises a Central Processing Unit (CPU)701, e.g. a processor, which may perform various suitable actions and processes in accordance with computer program instructions stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM)702 or computer program instructions loaded from a storage unit 708 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 703. In the RAM 703, various programs and data necessary for the operation of the apparatus 700 can also be stored. The CPU 701, the ROM 702, and the RAM 703 are connected to each other via a bus 704. An input/output (I/O) interface 705 is also connected to bus 704.

A number of components in the apparatus 700 are connected to the I/O interface 705, including: an input unit 706 such as a keyboard, a mouse, or the like; an output unit 707 such as various types of displays, speakers, and the like; a storage unit 708 such as a magnetic disk, optical disk, or the like; and a communication unit 709 such as a network card, modem, wireless communication transceiver, etc. The communication unit 709 allows the apparatus 700 to exchange information/data with other devices via a computer network such as the internet and/or various telecommunication networks.

Various methods described above, such as a method for searching blockchain data, can be performed by processing unit 701. For example, in some embodiments, the

methods

100, 500 for searching blockchain data may be implemented as a computer software program tangibly embodied in a machine-readable medium, such as the storage unit 708. In some embodiments, part or all of a computer program may be loaded and/or installed onto the apparatus 700 via the ROM 702 and/or the communication unit 709. When loaded into RAM 703 and executed by CPU 701, may perform one or more of the actions or steps of the

methods

100, 500 described above.

In general, the various exemplary embodiments of this invention may be implemented in hardware or special purpose circuits, software, firmware, logic or any combination thereof. Certain aspects may be implemented in hardware, while other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device. While various aspects of the embodiments of the invention may be illustrated and described as block diagrams, flow charts, or using some other pictorial representation, it is well understood that the blocks, apparatus, systems, techniques or methods described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.

Although the various exemplary embodiments of the present invention are described above as being implemented in hardware or in dedicated circuitry, the data processing apparatus for blockchains described above may be implemented in either hardware or software, because: in the 90's of the 20 th century, a technological improvement could easily be either a hardware improvement (e.g., an improvement in the structure of a circuit such as a diode, a transistor, a switch, etc.) or a software improvement (e.g., an improvement in the process flow). However, as the technology continues to develop, many of the method flow improvements can be realized by almost programming the improved method flow into the hardware circuit, in other words, by programming different programs for the hardware circuit to obtain the corresponding hardware circuit structure, i.e. realizing the change of the hardware circuit structure, so such method flow improvements can also be regarded as direct improvement of the hardware circuit structure. Thus, it cannot be said that an improvement in the process flow cannot be realized by hardware physical modules. For example, a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), is an integrated circuit whose Logic functions are determined by a user programming the Device. A digital system is "integrated" on a piece of programmable logic device by the designer's own programming without requiring the chip manufacturer to design and fabricate application specific integrated circuit chips. Furthermore, nowadays, instead of manually making an Integrated Circuit chip, such Programming is often implemented by "logic compiler 1 er" software, which is similar to a software compiler used in program development and writing, but the original code before compiling is also written by a specific Programming Language, which is called Hardware Description Language (HDL), and HDL is not only one kind, but many kinds, such as abel (advanced Boolean Expression Language), ahdl (advanced Hardware Description Language), communication, pl (core unity Programming Language), HDCal, JHDL (Java Hardware Description Language), Lava, Lola, HDL, pamm, hard Language (Hardware Description Language), and vhigh Language (Hardware Description Language), which are currently used in the most popular fields. It will also be apparent to those skilled in the art that hardware circuitry that implements the logical method flows can be readily obtained by merely slightly programming the method flows into an integrated circuit using the hardware description languages described above.

Computer-readable program instructions or computer program products for performing aspects of the present disclosure may also be stored in the cloud, and when a call is needed, a user may access the computer-readable program instructions stored in the cloud for performing aspects of the present disclosure through a mobile internet, a fixed network, or other networks, so as to implement the technical solutions disclosed in the aspects of the present disclosure.

In summary, the method for searching for blockchain data provided by the present disclosure can, on one hand, precisely control data on a blockchain, so that publicly shared data can be accessed without access control and data retention access control requiring privacy protection is provided; on the other hand, an internal mechanism and an interface for access retrieval are defined, so that not only can external webpage links directly link public data in the block chain and information associated with the block chain, but also the public data in the block chain can be linked with each other, and a search engine can perform traversal retrieval on all information in the block chain. In addition, the solution provided by the invention can realize the interconnection and intercommunication of the block chain and the internet information, and further bring the huge value of the block chain into play.

The above description is only an alternative embodiment of the present disclosure, and is not intended to limit the present disclosure, and various modifications and changes may be made to the present disclosure by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the embodiments of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the embodiments of the present invention.

While embodiments of the invention have been described with reference to several particular embodiments, it is to be understood that embodiments of the invention are not limited to the specific embodiments disclosed. The embodiments of the invention are intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. The scope of the claims is to be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and equivalent structures and functions.

Claims

1. A method for searching blockchain data, the method comprising:

C. judging whether at least one second uniform resource locator address exists, wherein the second blockchain data at the at least one second uniform resource locator address is associated with the first blockchain data, and the association of the second blockchain data at the at least one second uniform resource locator address with the first blockchain data means that the hierarchical attribute included in the first blockchain data and a predetermined hierarchical relationship tree indicate whether an association relationship of the second blockchain data at the second uniform resource locator address exists;

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information associated with the blockchain comprises at least one of:

the number of nodes of the block chain;

identity information of an owner of a node of the blockchain;

a number of owners of nodes of the blockchain;

a creation time of the blockchain;

a joining time of a node of the blockchain.

4. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein d. determining whether at least one second uniform resource locator address is present further comprises:

5. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address further comprises:

6. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address further comprises:

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first blockchain data and/or the second blockchain data includes a first attribute, and wherein b.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first blockchain data and/or the second blockchain data are stored in a keyed manner.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein,

in a case where the first blockchain data is public data, the first attribute of the first blockchain data is a first value;

in a case where the second blockchain data is public data, the first attribute of the second blockchain data is the first value;

in a case where the first blockchain data is private data, the first attribute of the first blockchain data is a second value different from the first value;

the first attribute of the second blockchain data is the second value in a case where the second blockchain data is private data.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address further comprises:

11. The method of claim 1, wherein b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address further comprises:

12. An apparatus for searching blockchain data, the apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory for storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

13. The apparatus of claim 12, the instructions when executed further causing the processor to:

E1. and when the at least one second uniform resource location address does not exist, generating the webpage according to the first block chain data.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the information associated with the blockchain comprises at least one of:

the number of nodes of the block chain;

identity information of an owner of a node of the blockchain;

a number of owners of nodes of the blockchain;

a creation time of the blockchain;

a joining time of a node of the blockchain.

15. The apparatus of claim 12 or 13, wherein determining whether at least one second uniform resource locator address is present further comprises:

16. The apparatus of claim 12 or 13, wherein b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address further comprises:

17. The apparatus of claim 12 or 13, wherein b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address further comprises:

18. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the first blockchain data and/or the second blockchain data includes a first attribute, and wherein b.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the first blockchain data and/or the second blockchain data are keyed.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein,

21. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address further comprises:

22. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein b. obtaining first blockchain data at the first uniform resource location address further comprises:

23. A method for searching blockchain data, the method comprising:

n, receiving a search request;

sorting the search results based on information associated with the blockchain.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the information associated with the blockchain comprises at least one of:

the number of nodes of the block chain;

identity information of an owner of a node of the blockchain;

a number of owners of nodes of the blockchain;

a creation time of the blockchain;

a joining time of a node of the blockchain.

25. An apparatus for searching blockchain data, the apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory for storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

n, receiving a search request;

sorting the search results based on information associated with the blockchain.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the information associated with the blockchain comprises at least one of:

the number of nodes of the block chain;

identity information of an owner of a node of the blockchain;

a number of owners of nodes of the blockchain;

a creation time of the blockchain;

a joining time of a node of the blockchain.

27. A computer readable storage medium having computer readable program instructions stored thereon for performing the method for searching blockchain data according to any one of claims 1 to 11.

28. A computer readable storage medium having computer readable program instructions stored thereon for performing the method for searching blockchain data of claim 23 or 24.