Blockchain Feedback Mechanism for Consumer Product Cultivation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Producers of consumer products face challenges in determining how factors like soil content, weather, and harvest time affect the properties of their products, such as nutritional content, taste, and smell, leading to difficulties in aligning production with consumer preferences.

Innovation Solution

A method using blockchain technology to perform parameter readings of consumer products, determine correlations between these readings and product properties, receive user feedback, and provide recommendations for adjustments to improve alignment with consumer preferences, including optimal harvesting times and product tracking.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If producers monitor multiple factors (soil content, weather, harvest time) to improve product properties, then product quality improves, but the complexity of tracking and analyzing these factors increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct qualityVSAvoidtracking complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces blockchain as an intermediary system that simplifies the tracking of multiple cultivation factors. Instead of complex internal tracking systems, producers use blockchain to record soil content, weather, and harvest time data, which automatically links these factors to product properties through smart contracts and distributed ledgers, reducing tracking complexity while maintaining quality monitoring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where consumer feedback on product properties is fed back to producers through the blockchain system. This feedback loop enables producers to see the direct correlation between cultivation factors and consumer preferences, allowing them to adjust their practices to improve product quality without needing complex analysis systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If producers analyze consumer feedback to improve product properties, then consumer satisfaction improves, but the time and resources required for analysis increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsumer satisfactionVSAvoidanalysis time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses blockchain-based feedback systems that automatically process and analyze consumer feedback in real-time. Smart contracts can automatically aggregate feedback data, identify patterns, and provide actionable insights to producers without requiring manual analysis, thus maintaining high consumer satisfaction while minimizing time investment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service analysis where the blockchain network automatically processes feedback data from multiple consumers simultaneously. The distributed nature of blockchain allows parallel processing of feedback across multiple nodes, reducing analysis time while maintaining comprehensive consumer insight.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Manufacturing precision

If producers implement comprehensive monitoring of cultivation factors, then product property control improves, but the cost of implementation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct property controlVSAvoidimplementation cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses blockchain as a cost-effective intermediary that provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities without requiring expensive proprietary systems. The open-source nature of blockchain technology allows producers to implement monitoring of soil content, weather, and harvest time factors at lower cost while maintaining precise control over product properties through transparent, verifiable records.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12056744B2Commerce driven feedback mechanism for consumer products
Publication Date: 2024.08.06 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for cultivation feedback is provided. The present invention may include performing one or more parameter readings of one or more consumer products and storing the one or more parameter readings on a blockchain. The present invention may include determining a correlation between the one or more parameter readings and the one or more properties of the one or more consumer products. The present invention may include receiving feedback on the one or more consumer products from one or more users. The present invention may include providing one or more recommendations based on the feedback received.