Blockchain Reset for Application Contextual Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for resetting applications during go-live scenarios are inadequate, often resulting in transaction anomalies and financial losses due to binary decision-making without contextual understanding of transaction states and data structures, leading to incomplete or unnecessary resets.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing artificial intelligence and blockchain technology to analyze app-use contextual data, recommending dynamic revision, rollback, or restore options based on real-time transaction data, enabling contextual reset management in hybrid cloud environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional binary decision-making methods are used for application resets, then the reset process is simple to implement, but transaction anomalies and financial losses occur due to lack of contextual understanding

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces blockchain as an intermediary layer between the application and reset decision-making process. The blockchain ledger records and verifies transaction states, providing a trusted source of truth that enables accurate contextual understanding without requiring complex proprietary verification systems. This intermediary structure resolves the contradiction by enhancing reliability through decentralized consensus while keeping the overall system architecture manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous feedback loops where transaction data is constantly monitored, analyzed, and fed back into the reset decision-making process. Machine learning models receive real-time feedback from blockchain-verified transaction states, enabling dynamic adjustment of reset decisions based on actual system conditions rather than static binary thresholds. This feedback mechanism improves transaction accuracy while the automation reduces the perceived complexity for users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If contextual analysis is performed on transaction data to enable accurate reset decisions, then decision accuracy improves, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction state analysis accuracyVSAvoidreset decision time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously pre-processing and analyzing transaction data before reset decisions are needed. Machine learning models are trained in advance on historical transaction patterns, and the blockchain ledger maintains pre-verified transaction states. When a reset decision is required, the system leverages these pre-computed insights rather than analyzing raw data from scratch, thereby achieving high measurement precision without excessive processing time during critical decision moments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The complex task of transaction analysis is segmented into multiple independent components: blockchain transaction verification, machine learning prediction, contextual factor analysis, and reset decision generation. Each segment can be processed independently and in parallel, reducing overall processing time. The segmentation also allows the system to focus computational resources only on the most relevant transaction attributes for each specific reset scenario, improving both accuracy and efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Reliability

If complete reset is performed to ensure data integrity, then system reliability is improved, but productivity and user experience deteriorate due to unnecessary resets

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata integrityVSAvoidapplication availability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements local quality by performing targeted resets only on specific transaction records or data segments that require correction, rather than executing complete system-wide resets. The blockchain ledger enables identification of precisely which transactions contain anomalies, allowing the system to restore only those specific records while leaving the rest of the application operational. This approach maintains data integrity for affected transactions while preserving overall application availability and productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial action by performing selective resets based on the severity and scope of detected transaction anomalies. Instead of always executing full resets, the machine learning models assess whether partial restoration of specific transaction data is sufficient to maintain reliability. This nuanced approach avoids excessive resetting actions that would unnecessarily disrupt productivity, while still ensuring data integrity where needed through targeted corrective measures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11741066B2Blockchain based reset for new version of an application
Publication Date: 2023.08.29 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A method for receiving an app-use contextual data set, applies artificial intelligence style machine logic to the app-use contextual data in order to generate a recommendation that the app should be subject to a recommended revision, in response to the generation of the recommended revision, makes the recommended revision in a dynamic manner, stores the app-use contextual data set in the form of a plurality of blockchain data structures, and operates around contextual reset/roll-back/restore scenarios in a hybrid cloud environment.