Blockchain Warehouse Receipt Generation via Smart Contracts

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Solution Overview

Problem

Bulk commodity industries face inefficiencies in circulation due to numerous circulation links and low efficiency, leading to high inventories and financial pressure, while commodities unsuitable for movement, such as antiques, face challenges in offline transactions, necessitating online transaction solutions that do not require physical movement.

Innovation Solution

A blockchain-based digital property rights platform generates and updates blockchain warehouse receipts using smart contracts, standardizing fields like warehouse receipt type, ID, generation time, state, category, owner, quantity, and weight, enabling secure, reliable, and liquid digital assets with clear ownership and transparent transactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If online transaction solutions are implemented for commodities unsuitable for movement, then transaction convenience is improved, but system complexity increases due to blockchain infrastructure requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction convenienceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates digital copies (blockchain warehouse receipts) of physical commodities, enabling online transactions without moving the actual goods. The warehouse receipt contains all essential information about the commodity and serves as a digital representation that can be traded on the blockchain network, thus improving transaction convenience while avoiding the complexity of physical logistics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces smart contracts as intermediaries that automatically execute transaction terms when conditions are met. These self-executing contracts reduce the need for complex manual verification processes and trust mechanisms, simplifying the overall system while enabling convenient online transactions for immovable commodities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If blockchain warehouse receipts are used to convert physical assets into digital assets, then liquidity is improved, but data security requirements and system reliability demands increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveliquidityVSAvoiddata security
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs cryptographic hashing and digital signatures that create secure, tamper-proof records without requiring expensive physical security infrastructure. The blockchain structure itself provides immutability through its distributed ledger and consensus mechanisms, achieving high data security and reliability while maintaining asset liquidity through digital tokenization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Data Source

PatentUS11443278B2Method, apparatus, and device for generating and updating blockchain warehouse receipt
Publication Date: 2022.09.13 ALIPAY (HANGZHOU) INFORMATION TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for generating a blockchain warehouse receipt includes: obtaining item registration information provided by a first user; generating a blockchain warehouse receipt including basic type fields according to the item registration information by invoking a first smart contract, the basic type fields including a warehouse receipt type field, a warehouse receipt ID field, a generation time field, a state field, a category field, a property owner field, a quantity field, and a weight field; and storing the blockchain warehouse receipt in a blockchain network.