Blockchain Asset Tracking via Intermediary Service Layer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current blockchain systems lack user-friendly and efficient methods for secure, real-time tracking of asset ownership and usage across multiple users, requiring complex processing and user management, which hinders accessibility and reliability.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that allows for secure, simple, and synchronized tracking of asset ownership and usage on a blockchain by receiving creation and usage requests, generating transactions, and submitting them to the blockchain, without requiring clients to implement blockchain processing or user management, using an API for services associated with the blockchain.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If blockchain systems implement direct tracking of asset ownership and usage, then security and immutability are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of operation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary service layer that sits between users and the blockchain network. This service handles complex blockchain operations such as transaction creation, broadcasting, and state management, while users interact with simplified APIs. The intermediary translates high-level user requests into low-level blockchain transactions, maintaining security and immutability while significantly reducing operational complexity for end users.
2Reliability
If blockchain systems implement direct tracking of asset ownership and usage, then security and immutability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the blockchain system into distinct functional layers: a complex backend service layer that handles blockchain protocol implementation, transaction management, and state synchronization, and a simplified user-facing layer that provides intuitive APIs for asset tracking. This segmentation isolates complexity within the service infrastructure while presenting a simple interface to users, resolving the contradiction between maintaining security through full blockchain functionality and reducing perceived system complexity for end users.
3Reliability
If real-time tracking of asset usage is implemented across multiple users, then synchronization and reliability are improved, but processing complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-synchronizing blockchain state data to the service layer before user requests arrive. The service maintains local copies of asset states and ownership information, updated in advance through background synchronization processes. When users query asset usage or ownership, the service can respond immediately using pre-synchronized data, achieving real-time tracking and cross-user synchronization without requiring time-consuming on-demand blockchain queries for each operation.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method for tracking, on a blockchain, at least two clients interacting with an asset, wherein the blockchain comprises a set of transactions associated with the asset, and a set of transactions associated with each client. The asset tracking comprising receiving an asset interaction event request comprising data indicative of at least two clients associated with an asset interaction event and data indicative of the asset, generating an event transaction comprising a reference to the set of transactions associated with the asset and references to the sets of transactions associated with the at least two clients, and submitting the event transaction to the blockchain.