Blockchain Record Certification for Secure Application Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing integration methods between organizations for functional requirements, such as IT incident resolution and expense reporting, lack a secure and immutable way to certify application updates across parties, leading to potential disputes and lack of trust.
Innovation Solution
The use of blockchain record certification, where a digest of the application update is signed by both parties and stored on a blockchain, providing an immutable and irrefutable accounting of the update, and allowing all parties to acknowledge their agreement while maintaining local records.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional integration methods are used between organizations, then ease of operation is maintained, but reliability and trustworthiness of application updates deteriorate due to lack of immutable certification
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a blockchain certification system as an intermediary between organizations to certify application updates. The blockchain ledger acts as a neutral mediator that immutably records update information, providing trusted verification without requiring direct trust between integrating organizations. This resolves the contradiction by adding reliability through an intermediary while keeping the core integration methods simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a cryptographic copy (hash) of the application update data and stores it on the blockchain. Instead of storing the entire application update, only a digest or hash is recorded, providing immutable verification while minimizing storage requirements and system complexity. This copying approach enables reliable certification without proportionally increasing system complexity.
2Reliability
If blockchain record certification is implemented, then reliability and auditability are improved, but device complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential verification information (hash/digest of application updates, timestamps, party identifiers) and stores it on the blockchain, while keeping the main application update data local. This extraction approach provides auditability through blockchain certification without requiring complex blockchain integration for storing all data, thus improving reliability while limiting the increase in device complexity to only the certification layer.
3Measurement precision
If detailed application update information is stored on blockchain, then measurement precision and verification accuracy are improved, but loss of time for data transmission and storage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a compact cryptographic copy (hash function output) of the application update data and stores this digest on the blockchain instead of the full data. This copying approach enables precise verification by comparing hashes while minimizing data transmission and storage time on the blockchain, thus improving measurement precision without proportionally increasing time loss.
Data Source
AI summary
An update request is initiated to update a record of a management system. In response to the request, the record is updated in a storage of the management system. In response to the request, a digest of the update request is generated and the digest is signed. The signed digest is recorded on a blockchain different from the storage of the management system.