Blockchain Instance Alignment via Generic Template
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current blockchain systems lack an efficient method to align and track multi-step processes across various instances, making it difficult to maintain consistency and equivalence between different blockchain instances while recording real-world processes.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for creating an instance blockchain that aligns with a generic blockchain by accessing data, comparing it with the generic blockchain, and performing alignment operations to indicate equivalence, allowing for the creation of fully aligned blockchains that track multi-step processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If blockchain instances are created independently to track specific processes, then each instance can operate autonomously, but maintaining consistency and equivalence between different instances becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a generic blockchain structure that serves as a universal template for multiple instance blockchains. This generic blockchain defines common data formats, block structures, and validation rules that all instances must follow, enabling them to operate autonomously while maintaining consistency through shared universal standards
Solution Approach 2:
Instance blockchains are created by copying the generic blockchain structure and aligning their blocks accordingly. Each instance maintains its own data while following the same block format, validation logic, and alignment operations as the generic blockchain, ensuring equivalence through systematic copying of the proven structure
2Reliability
If data is compared and aligned across multiple blockchain instances, then consistency is improved, but the complexity of data comparison and alignment operations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment process is segmented into discrete block-level operations rather than attempting to align entire chains at once. Each block is compared and aligned independently using standardized procedures, breaking down the complex task of multi-instance synchronization into manageable, repeatable unit operations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs alignment operations that adjust specific parameters of blocks (such as timestamps, nonces, or reference hashes) to achieve equivalence between instances. By changing only the necessary parameters rather than entire block structures, the system maintains consistency while minimizing operational complexity
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AI summary
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium is provided for creating a blockchain instance and aligning the instance blockchain to a generic blockchain for tracking a multi-step process. Aspects of the invention comprise performing by a blockchain system: accessing data for the creation of a block in a blockchain instance; comparing said data with data associated with a block in a generic blockchain; and for each block in the generic blockchain where the data in the block corresponds to the accessed data, creating a block in the blockchain instance for the accessed data; and performing an alignment operation to indicate that the created block is equivalent to the block in the generic blockchain.