Blockchain Resource Management System for Tamper-Resistant Usage Rights

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for managing and sharing computer resources face challenges in consistency, reliability, and tamper resistance, particularly when dealing with large numbers of users and centralized databases, as they struggle to securely manage resource usage rights.

Innovation Solution

A resource management system utilizing a blockchain network with multiple resource usage right management apparatuses and a resource transaction management apparatus that registers and manages resource usage rights, ensuring centralized management, reliability, and tamper resistance by generating and transmitting resource usage right information as transactions within the blockchain.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a centralized database is used to manage resource usage rights, then management efficiency is improved, but reliability deteriorates when the database goes down

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanagement efficiencyVSAvoidsystem availability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The centralized database is segmented into multiple distributed nodes forming a blockchain network. Each node stores a copy of the resource usage right information, eliminating the single point of failure while maintaining centralized management capabilities through consensus mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A blockchain system acts as an intermediary layer between resource providers and users. The blockchain ledger serves as a trusted mediator that records and verifies resource usage rights transactions, ensuring reliability without requiring a centralized database.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If a centralized database is used to manage resource usage rights, then management efficiency is improved, but tamper resistance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanagement efficiencyVSAvoidtamper resistance

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The centralized database is divided into multiple distributed nodes across the blockchain network. Each node maintains an identical copy of the resource usage right information, making tampering difficult as changes require consensus across multiple nodes rather than a single point of modification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The blockchain system serves as a tamper-resistant intermediary that cryptographically secures resource usage right information. The distributed ledger and consensus mechanisms prevent unauthorized modifications, ensuring integrity while maintaining management efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If blockchain is used for settlement, then payment security is improved, but resource usage right management capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepayment securityVSAvoidresource usage right management capability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges payment settlement and resource usage right management into a single integrated blockchain system. The same blockchain ledger that secures payments also stores and manages resource usage rights information, eliminating the need for separate systems and enhancing versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The blockchain system is designed to perform multiple functions: it simultaneously handles payment settlements, resource usage right registration, verification, and transfer. This multi-functional approach maintains payment security while providing comprehensive resource management capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11848934B2Resource management system, resource management method, resource transaction management device, resource management device, and program

Publication Date: 2023.12.19 NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE CORP

AI summary

[Problem] It is possible to enable the centralized management of resource usage right and improve the reliability and tamper resistance of information related to the resource usage right.[Solution] A resource transaction management apparatus 20 of the resource management system 1000 includes a resource setting unit 22 configured to receive resource provision information 300 from a resource provision apparatus 30, and generate resource usage right information 500 having the resource provision information 300 transmitted to a resource usage right management apparatus 10, and a matching processing unit 23 configured to receive resource request information 400 from a resource usage apparatus 40, determine a resource that satisfies a request condition by referring to each resource provision information 300 registered in a blockchain, generate usage right management information including usage right owner information and a usage time of the determined resource, using the resource request information 400, and transmit the new resource usage right information 500 having the generated usage right management information to the resource usage right management apparatus 10.