Blockchain Transport Responsibility Allocation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Record keeping for multi-user transport events is burdensome, especially when users receive different benefits such as extended vehicle use, prioritized pickup and drop-off, and varying access to amenities, requiring detailed delegation of costs and responsibilities.

Innovation Solution

A method and system using a blockchain-based decentralized database to determine fractional responsibility values for occupants participating in transport events, based on event and sub-event participation, and assign these values to ensure equitable distribution of responsibilities and benefits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If detailed record keeping is implemented for multi-user transport events, then accuracy of responsibility allocation is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of responsibility allocationVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the transport event into multiple sub-events (pickup, drop-off, amenity usage, etc.), with each sub-event tracked independently. This segmentation allows for precise attribution of responsibilities to specific occupants for specific actions, improving measurement precision while managing complexity through modular event tracking.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that automatically processes and records transport events. The server receives data from vehicle systems, determines responsibility allocations, and maintains records, thereby reducing the complexity burden on the vehicle system itself while ensuring accurate tracking of all sub-events.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If fractional responsibility values are calculated for multiple occupants, then fairness of cost distribution is improved, but computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefairness of cost distributionVSAvoidcomputational requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary calculations of fractional responsibility values based on pre-defined criteria (duration of use, amenity access, pickup/drop-off priority). By establishing these allocation rules in advance, the system can quickly compute fair distributions without requiring complex real-time calculations, thus reducing computational power requirements while maintaining fairness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of information

If comprehensive sub-event tracking is implemented, then transparency of benefit distribution is improved, but data management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetransparency of benefit distributionVSAvoiddata management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal event tracking framework that handles multiple types of sub-events (pickup, drop-off, amenity usage, violations) through a common data structure and processing mechanism. This multi-functional approach ensures transparent tracking of all benefits and responsibilities while managing data complexity through standardized event types and centralized server processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11922385B2Transport vehicle access sharing with various occupants

Publication Date: 2024.03.05 TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC

AI summary

An example operation may include determining a fractional responsibility of an event, a sub-event and/or an occupant associated with a transport.