Defragmenting Physical Asset Allocations in Distributed Ledger Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
In distributed ledger technology-based systems, the trading of asset-backed digital tokens can lead to fragmentation, where allocations of digital tokens become scattered across multiple units of physical assets, resulting in sub-optimal usage of these assets.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of off-chain microservices that optimize the allocation of physical assets to digital tokens by capturing snapshots of token ownership and physical asset allocations, identifying inventory information, and performing defragmentation based on transaction data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital tokens are traded freely on a distributed ledger, then transaction flexibility and accessibility are improved, but physical asset fragmentation increases and usage efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary defragmentation actions by capturing snapshots of token ownership and physical asset allocations before processing transactions. This allows the system to identify and resolve fragmentation issues proactively, optimizing the allocation of physical assets to digital tokens before they are broadcast to the distributed ledger, thus maintaining transaction flexibility while preventing asset fragmentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the defragmentation and optimization process from the main distributed ledger transactions by implementing it as an off-chain microservice. This separates the fragmentation resolution function from the public ledger, allowing flexible token transactions to occur on-chain while handling the complex asset allocation optimization off-chain, thereby maintaining both transaction flexibility and asset efficiency.
2Productivity
If high transaction volumes are processed on-chain, then system responsiveness is improved, but computational burden on distributed systems increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts computationally intensive defragmentation and optimization operations from the on-chain transaction processing. By implementing these as off-chain microservices that receive transaction data, perform complex allocation optimization, and then broadcast simplified transactions to the distributed ledger, the system maintains high transaction processing speed while significantly reducing the computational burden on distributed system nodes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer of off-chain microservices between user transactions and the distributed ledger. This intermediary handles the complex computational tasks of capturing snapshots, identifying inventory information, and performing defragmentation, thereby protecting the distributed ledger from high computational demands while maintaining system responsiveness.
3Device complexity
If physical assets are allocated to digital tokens without optimization, then system simplicity is maintained, but asset usage efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary optimization by capturing snapshots of token ownership and physical asset allocations before processing transactions. This allows the system to identify inefficient allocations and perform defragmentation in advance, optimizing asset usage efficiency while maintaining relatively simple system architecture through automated snapshot-based processing.
Data Source
AI summary
A computing system receives a plurality of transactions in a decentralized computing environment involving digital tokens backed by physical assets. The plurality of transactions spanning a first time period. The computing system identifies a previous position of the decentralized computing environment by capturing a snapshot of token ownership and physical asset to digital token allocation during a period immediately preceding the first time period. The computing system identifies inventory information corresponding to the physical assets backing the digital tokens. The computing system defragments an allocation of physical assets to digital tokens based on the plurality of transactions, the previous position of the decentralized computing environment, and the inventory information corresponding to the physical assets. The computing system broadcasts the plurality of transactions to a distributed ledger of the decentralized computing environment.