Blockchain Container-Wallets for Decentralized Credential Integrity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack effective mechanisms for ensuring the integrity and authenticity of credentialed information across its lifecycle, particularly in decentralized environments, leading to issues with unauthorized access, tampering, and orphaned ownership, especially in scenarios like identity theft.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a blockchain-based mechanism for decentralized credentialed information issuance and management using blockchain container-wallets, which enables secure storage, tamper-resistant digital information credentialing, remote administration, and transparent detection of unauthorized changes through cryptographic libraries within Bitcoin Core or equivalent blockchain implementations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If decentralized information storage is implemented, then intermediary services are eliminated and autonomy is improved, but security and integrity verification become more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveautonomyVSAvoidintegrity verification

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary cryptographic hashing of information content before distribution. Hash codes are embedded in blockchain administrative transactions in advance, enabling later verification without requiring intermediary services. This preliminary action resolves the contradiction by preparing verification data upfront, making decentralized verification as reliable as centralized verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces blockchain administrative transactions as a mediator between information issuers and validators. These transactions carry embedded hash codes that serve as trusted reference points, allowing decentralized verification without traditional intermediary services. The blockchain transaction structure acts as a new form of mediator that enables both autonomy and reliable integrity verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If cryptographic security measures are implemented, then unauthorized access is prevented, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesecurityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service security where blockchain container-wallets automatically perform cryptographic operations including key generation, content hashing, and verification. The embedded cryptographic libraries within Bitcoin Core enable the system to secure itself without external security management infrastructure, achieving high security with reduced operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges cryptographic security functions directly into the blockchain container-wallet infrastructure. By combining key management, hashing, and verification capabilities within the existing blockchain client architecture, the system achieves strong security without adding separate complex security layers, thus resolving the contradiction between security and complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If blockchain container-wallets are distributed, then portability and decentralization are improved, but coordination and synchronization become more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveportabilityVSAvoidcoordination complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses blockchain's inherent distributed ledger as a feedback mechanism for coordination. Each container-wallet instance can verify its synchronization status by checking the blockchain ledger, which provides real-time feedback on the state of distributed credentials. This feedback loop enables portable, decentralized wallets to maintain coordination without complex synchronization protocols.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11645632B2System and method for a decentralized portable information container supporting privacy protected digital information credentialing, remote administration, local validation, access control and remote instruction signaling utilizing blockchain distributed ledger and container wallet technologies

Publication Date: 2023.05.09 LA SALLE DEREK NORMAN

AI summary

A mechanism for verifying digital information provenance and attestation using blockchain distributed ledger technology which reveals unauthorized tampering with credentialed information. Content modifications are detectable leveraging only local edge validation supported by the normative Bitcoin Core cryptographic libraries or equivalent blockchain implementations. The invention prevents unauthorized access, unregulated copy distribution, and orphaned ownership lacking issuer provenance and attestation. The preferred embodiment provides tamper detectable digital content containers supporting credentialing, remote administration, localized validation, distributed access control, and processing instruction signaling. Intermediary third-party services are not required to verify provenance and issuer attestation. Blockchain integrated cryptographic information containers and administrative transactions immutably record the binding between participating parties (e.g., issuer, administrator, requestor) and associated digital assets (e.g., insurance card, medical records, driver's license, passport, biometric, business contract, software application files, data).