Systems and methods for controlling rights related to digital knowledge

Abstract

Systems and methods for controlling rights associated with digital knowledge are disclosed. A sample system may include an input system that receives digital knowledge from a user, a tokenization system that tokenizes the digital knowledge, and a ledger management system that creates, manages, and stores entries on a distributed ledger and provides provable access to the digital knowledge. A smart contract system may create smart contracts that include trigger actions and respond to the occurrence of trigger events with defined smart contract actions. The smart contract system may also process commitments to smart contracts.

Claims

1. A knowledge distribution system for controlling rights related to digital knowledge, An input system configured to receive instances of digital knowledge from a user, A tokenization system configured to tokenize the digital knowledge so that the instance of the digital knowledge can be manipulated as a token, It is a ledger management system, Create and manage a distributed ledger, The tokenized digital knowledge is stored in the distributed ledger, It is configured to provide verifiable access to digital knowledge, Providing the aforementioned verifiable access includes a ledger management system that records access transactions in the distributed ledger, A smart contract system that communicates with the aforementioned distributed ledger, A smart contract is executed via the aforementioned distributed ledger, and the smart contract includes tokenized digital knowledge and trigger events. In response to the occurrence of the trigger event, a smart contract action relating to the tokenized digital knowledge is executed. The smart contract action is managed in response to the trigger event. To process the commitments of multiple parties to the aforementioned smart contract, Controlling the tokenized digital knowledge and access rights to the tokenized digital knowledge in accordance with the smart contract, A smart contract system configured as follows, Includes, An account management system that communicates with the aforementioned distributed ledger, which creates and manages multiple user accounts corresponding to multiple users of a knowledge distribution system, issues public and private access keys to user accounts, and these access keys correspond to the access level of each user account, further comprising the account management system, Knowledge distribution system.

2. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising a smart contract wrapper configured to add intellectual property to an intellectual property aggregation stack.

3. The aforementioned smart contract is Perform operations on a distributed ledger to add intellectual property, The parties on the distributed ledger agree to distribute the royalties of the aforementioned added intellectual property. To process the commitments of the parties to the contract period on the distributed ledger, The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising a smart contract wrapper configured as such.

4. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising a user interface system that communicates with the distributed ledger, wherein the user interface system is configured to present a user interface to a user of the knowledge distribution system, and the user interface enables the user to display data relating to the instance of the digital knowledge.

5. The marketplace system further comprises a marketplace system that communicates with the aforementioned distributed ledger, and the marketplace system is Establish and maintain a digital marketplace, To the user of the knowledge distribution system, the data corresponding to the instance of the digital knowledge is presented visually. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, configured as described above.

6. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising a knowledge data store that communicates with the distributed ledger, wherein the knowledge data store is configured to store data related to the digital knowledge.

7. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising a client data store that communicates with the distributed ledger, wherein the client data store is configured to store data relating to multiple users of the knowledge distribution system.

8. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising a smart contract data store that communicates with the distributed ledger, wherein the smart contract data store is configured to store data related to the smart contract.

9. The system further comprises a reporting system that communicates with the aforementioned distributed ledger, and the reporting system is The tokenized digital knowledge is analyzed to obtain the analysis results, The results of this analysis will be reported. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, configured as described above.

10. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 1, wherein implementing the smart contract includes using a parameterizable smart contract template to generate the smart contract.

11. The knowledge distribution system according to claim 10, wherein the smart contract includes parameters based on the type of tokenized digital knowledge.

12. A computer-based method for controlling rights related to digital knowledge, The steps include receiving an instance of digital knowledge from the user, A step of creating and managing a distributed ledger, wherein the distributed ledger consists of multiple blocks linked via cryptography distributed across multiple nodes of a network, The steps include tokenizing the digital knowledge so that the instance of the digital knowledge can be manipulated as a token, The steps include storing the tokenized digital knowledge in the distributed ledger, A step of providing verifiable access to the digital knowledge, wherein providing verifiable access includes recording access transactions in the distributed ledger. A step of communicating with the distributed ledger to execute and manage a smart contract, wherein the smart contract includes a trigger event, the tokenized digital knowledge, and a corresponding smart contract action, and is stored in the distributed ledger. A step of processing the commitments of multiple parties to the smart contract, Steps include managing the control rights and access rights to the tokenized digital knowledge in accordance with the smart contract, The steps include: performing a corresponding smart contract action with respect to the tokenized digital knowledge in response to the occurrence of the trigger event; A step of managing the smart contract action in response to the trigger event, Includes, The steps include: communicating with the distributed ledger to create and manage multiple user accounts corresponding to multiple users of the knowledge distribution system; A step of issuing a public access key and a private access key to a user account, wherein these access keys correspond to the access level of each user account, and Further including, The way a computer executes something.

13. The steps include crowdsourcing information about the elements of the aforementioned digital knowledge instance, A computer-operated method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of updating the smart contract in response to the crowdsourced information.

14. The method performed by a computer according to claim 13, wherein the crowdsourced information includes information relating to a knowledge provider or a knowledge recipient.

15. The steps include adding intellectual property to the aforementioned distributed ledger, The steps include having the parties promise to distribute royalties for the aforementioned added intellectual property, A method performed by a computer according to claim 12, further comprising the step of processing the parties' commitments to a contract period.

16. The steps of receiving a request from a user account for displaying data related to an instance of digital knowledge, A step to verify access to the instance of digital knowledge permitted to the user account, The steps include providing a user interface configured to display data related to the aforementioned instance of digital knowledge, A method performed by a computer according to claim 12, further comprising:

17. A method performed by a computer according to claim 12, further comprising purchasing or selling the aforementioned digital knowledge.

18. The method performed by a computer according to claim 12, further comprising creating and issuing currency tokens related to the distributed ledger.

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