Blockchain NFT Tokenization with Non-Owner Audio Playback Restrictions
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face challenges in protecting digital assets from unauthorized access and reproduction, as well as in enabling laypeople to easily tokenize and spatialize these assets without technical expertise.
Innovation Solution
A simplified graphical user interface allows laypeople to create, store, and sell tokens on a blockchain with restrictions, and spatialize digital assets automatically, using sound localization information stored in the blockchain and smart contracts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If digital assets are protected using tokens and cryptography on a blockchain, then security and protection from unauthorized access is improved, but the complexity and difficulty for laypeople to tokenize and spatialize assets increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary platform that mediates between users and the blockchain infrastructure. This platform handles the complex cryptographic operations, smart contract interactions, and spatialization processes automatically, allowing users to tokenize assets through simplified interfaces without needing to understand underlying cryptographic mechanisms. The intermediary abstracts technical complexity while maintaining security through proven cryptographic protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service mechanisms where the blockchain network automatically verifies token ownership, enforces spatial restrictions, and manages digital asset protection without requiring user intervention in complex security protocols. Smart contracts automatically execute spatialization rules and access control logic, reducing the burden on users while maintaining high security standards through decentralized verification.
2Reliability
If restrictions are implemented on tokenized digital assets to control access and reproduction, then protection from unauthorized use is improved, but the ease of operation for users to create and manage tokens worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring spatial restrictions and access control policies into smart contracts during the tokenization process. Users select from predefined restriction templates (e.g., geographic limitations, time-based access, device-specific constraints) that are automatically encoded into the token metadata and blockchain smart contracts. This preliminary configuration ensures protection is built-in from the start without requiring users to manage complex restriction logic later.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows users to modify restriction parameters dynamically through simplified interfaces. Users can adjust spatial coordinates, time windows, device identifiers, and access conditions as parameters that are automatically updated in the smart contract. This parameter-based approach enables flexible protection management without requiring users to understand underlying cryptographic or smart contract complexities.
3Ease of operation
If automatic spatialization and tokenization processes are provided to help laypeople, then ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex tokenization and spatialization process into distinct modular components: asset upload module, metadata extraction module, spatial restriction configuration module, smart contract generation module, and blockchain submission module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the process independently, allowing the system to manage complexity through modular architecture while presenting a unified simplified interface to users. This segmentation enables parallel processing and reduces bottlenecks.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform implements universal, multi-functional tools that handle diverse digital asset types (images, videos, audio, 3D models) through a single tokenization interface. The system automatically detects asset type, extracts relevant spatial and metadata information, and applies appropriate spatialization rules regardless of the specific asset format. This multi-functionality reduces the need for asset-specific complex processing while maintaining ease of operation across different media types.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device receives, from a user, a restriction that restricts how sound of a digital asset plays to non-owners of the digital asset that is tokenized as a non-fungible token (NFT). One or more electronic devices tokenize the digital asset as the NFT on a blockchain that stores the restriction how the sound of the digital asset plays to the non-owners of the NFT.