Blockchain Consensus for Vehicle Transfer Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack automated check and balance mechanisms for vehicle sales across multiple dealerships, leading to inefficiencies in centralized processing and reporting of transport requests, and there is no means for automated search or agreement for vehicle transfers between dealerships.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain-based system that allows dealerships to broadcast requests for vehicle sales or transfers, achieve consensus on prices, and record transactions on a decentralized ledger, ensuring that sales or transfers are only finalized with agreement from all involved dealerships.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a centralized database is used for recording sale requests and sales across multiple dealerships, then data accessibility is improved, but automated control and consensus mechanisms are lacking leading to price undercutting and business undermining
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a blockchain network as an intermediary layer between the centralized database and individual dealerships. This blockchain intermediary implements automated consensus mechanisms that verify and enforce pricing agreements, preventing price undercutting while maintaining data accessibility. The smart contracts on the blockchain act as mediators that automatically execute pricing rules without requiring manual intervention from each dealership.
2Ease of operation
If individual dealerships operate independently without automated control, then operational flexibility is improved, but coordination and agreement mechanisms between dealerships are inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by establishing pricing agreements and consensus rules in advance through blockchain smart contracts before actual sales transactions occur. These pre-configured automated rules enable dealerships to operate independently with flexibility while ensuring coordination efficiency, as the consensus mechanisms are already in place to automatically enforce pricing agreements and prevent conflicts without requiring real-time manual coordination.
3Device complexity
If manual search and communication methods are used for vehicle availability and transfer agreements, then system complexity is reduced, but processing time and communication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by enabling the blockchain network to automatically perform vehicle availability checks and transfer agreement negotiations without requiring manual intervention from dealerships. The smart contracts autonomously query the centralized database for vehicle availability, evaluate transfer conditions, and execute agreements based on pre-configured rules, significantly reducing processing time while the modular blockchain architecture keeps system complexity manageable.
4Reliability
If automated consensus mechanisms are implemented for vehicle sales and transfers, then transaction reliability is improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent achieves universality by designing a multi-functional blockchain platform that handles multiple dealership operations (vehicle sales, transfers, pricing agreements) through a single unified system. This universal blockchain infrastructure provides automated consensus mechanisms for all transaction types, improving reliability across different operations while avoiding the need for separate complex systems for each function, thereby managing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a dealer node, a request for a transport with a set of properties, querying, by the dealer node, a plurality of dealer nodes for the transport based on the set of the properties, responsive to receiving transport availability notifications, requesting a transfer of the transport from at least one dealer node of the plurality of the dealer nodes, receiving agreements from the plurality of the dealer nodes for the transfer of the transport, and recording the transfer of the transport on a remote storage.