Blockchain Transaction Guidance System with Centralized Auditing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current Bitcoin implementations lack centralized transaction processing, auditing, and fraud protection, leading to limitations such as high transaction fees, lack of refund rights, and susceptibility to fraudulent transactions.

Innovation Solution

The Point-to-Point Transaction Guidance Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (SOCOACT) utilize a blockchain-based system for secure, efficient, and transparent transactions, enabling fractional ownership, conditional triggered actions, and centralized auditing, while reducing transaction costs through the use of virtual currencies and smart contracts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If Bitcoin uses decentralized peer-to-peer technology with no central authority, then transaction autonomy and freedom from intermediaries is improved, but transaction fees and lack of fraud protection worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction autonomyVSAvoidtransaction fees and fraud risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a central authority as an intermediary that performs auditing and verification of transactions. This mediator resolves the contradiction by providing fraud protection and fee management while preserving the underlying decentralized transaction mechanism, thus protecting users from harmful factors without completely eliminating transaction autonomy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments transaction processing into multiple functions: decentralized peer-to-peer transaction execution maintains autonomy, while centralized auditing and verification handle fraud protection. This segmentation allows different aspects of the system to serve different purposes, resolving the contradiction between autonomy and protection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If Bitcoin operates without centralized transaction processing, then freedom from intermediaries is improved, but auditing capability and fraud protection worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefreedom from intermediariesVSAvoidauditing and fraud protection
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

A central authority is introduced as a mediator that performs auditing and fraud detection. This intermediary maintains the user experience of direct peer-to-peer transactions while providing behind-the-scenes verification and protection, thus improving reliability without significantly impacting ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The central authority provides feedback mechanisms for transaction verification and auditing. This feedback loop enables continuous monitoring and detection of fraudulent activities, improving system reliability while maintaining the decentralized operational model that users find easy to operate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If Bitcoin uses public-key cryptography for anonymous transactions, then privacy and security are improved, but identification of fraudulent actors and transaction tracing worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecryptographic securityVSAvoidtransaction tracing capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The central authority acts as an intermediary that can de-anonymize transactions when needed for fraud investigation. It receives encrypted transaction data, maintains the ability to trace transactions through cryptographic means, and can reveal identities of fraudulent actors while preserving anonymity for legitimate transactions, thus balancing security with tracing capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10339523B2Point-to-point transaction guidance apparatuses, methods and systems
Publication Date: 2019.07.02 FMR CORP
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AI summary

The Point-to-Point Transaction Guidance Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SOCOACT”) transforms smart contract request, crypto currency deposit request, crypto collateral deposit request, crypto currency transfer request, crypto collateral transfer request inputs via SOCOACT components into transaction confirmation outputs. Also, SOCOACT transforms virtual wallet address inputs via SOCOACT (e.g., P2PTG) components into transaction confirmation outputs. In one embodiment, the P2PTG includes a point-to-point payment guidance apparatus, comprising, a memory and processor disposed in communication with the memory, and configured to issue a plurality of processing instructions from the component collection stored in the memory, to: obtain a target wallet identifier registration at a beacon. The SOCOACT then may register the target wallet identifier with the beacon and obtain a unique wallet identifier from a migrant wallet source associated with a user at the beacon. The SOCOACT may then obtain a target transaction request at the beacon from the migrant wallet source and commit the target transaction request for the amount specified in the target transaction request to a distributed block chain database configured to propagate the target transaction request across a distributed block chain database network for payment targeted to the target wallet identifier registered at the beacon.