Blockchain Security Gateway Layered Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current blockchain systems face limitations such as poor transactional performance, scalability issues, high costs, complexity, and limitations in supporting multiple currency valuations, which hinder their adoption in high-security applications, particularly due to the inability to execute smart contracts and manage users, rules, and transactions effectively.
Innovation Solution
A security gateway system that connects to a blockchain network, filters transactions, manages users and data access, and enforces blockchain business policies, allowing only compliant requests to proceed, while understanding and managing tokens and smart contracts to ensure secure and efficient operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If blockchain systems allow public access and decentralized transactions, then security and transparency are improved, but transaction processing speed and scalability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the blockchain network into multiple layers: a public blockchain layer for security and transparency, and private blockchain layers for fast transaction processing. This segmentation allows each layer to optimize for its specific function, resolving the contradiction between security and processing speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces gateway nodes as intermediaries between the public blockchain and private blockchains. These gateways manage transaction routing, validation, and consensus coordination, enabling fast private transactions while maintaining public security oversight without requiring all public nodes to process every transaction.
2Reliability
If blockchain systems implement consensus validation for all transactions, then security is improved, but transaction costs and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements different consensus mechanisms for different layers: public blockchains use robust but slower consensus validation for security, while private blockchains use faster, more efficient consensus mechanisms for time-sensitive transactions. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction between security and confirmation time.
3Ease of operation
If blockchain systems maintain a single managing authority, then ease of management is improved, but security and decentralization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a hierarchical dimension to blockchain management with multiple managing authorities at different levels. Private blockchains have their own managing authorities for ease of operation, while public blockchains provide overarching security validation. This dimensional hierarchy resolves the contradiction between management ease and security.
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AI summary
A system and method providing a security gateway for high security blockchain systems, that acts as a firewall (and manages users, rules, data access, transactions, fees, etc.), has the ability to understand and enforce blockchain business processes policies (access policy and transaction policy of a blockchain solution that may or may not support smart contracts), and can understand tokens and their functionality, without totally disabling code execution, for example from smart contracts or tokens enabled by smart contracts.