Blockchain Withholding Smart Contract Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current blockchain-based payment systems lack efficient mechanisms for secure and transparent payment withholding processes, particularly in ensuring compliance with predefined rules and authorization agreements between payment systems and users.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a blockchain-based payment withholding method that involves monitoring withholding requests, constructing and verifying transactions using smart contracts, and performing deductions only when verification succeeds, with the option to generate and store withholding documents for immutable record-keeping.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If blockchain technology is used for payment withholding, then transparency and security are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepayment withholding securityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a blockchain-based intermediary verification mechanism that acts as a mediator between the payment system and the withholding requester. The blockchain network validates withholding requests through distributed consensus and smart contract execution, providing secure verification without requiring direct trust between parties. This intermediary layer enhances security while maintaining operational simplicity for end users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements self-service mechanisms where the blockchain system automatically verifies withholding requests through smart contracts and distributed validation. The system performs self-verification of withholding rules, compliance checking, and transaction validation without requiring manual intervention. This automation reduces operational complexity while enhancing security through cryptographic verification and consensus mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If smart contract verification is implemented, then compliance with withholding rules is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewithholding rule complianceVSAvoidverification processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining withholding rules, compliance criteria, and verification logic in smart contracts before actual withholding operations. The blockchain system maintains pre-validated withholding policies and authorization agreements that are automatically applied during verification. This pre-programming of compliance rules enables rapid verification execution while ensuring precise adherence to withholding requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual compliance verification mechanisms with automated smart contract execution on the blockchain. Instead of traditional mechanical review processes, the system uses cryptographic verification, automated rule evaluation, and algorithmic compliance checking. This substitution dramatically reduces verification time while maintaining or improving compliance precision through deterministic smart contract logic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Loss of information

If withholding requests are monitored on blockchain, then transparency and traceability are improved, but data storage requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction traceabilityVSAvoidblockchain data volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSVolume of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and separates critical withholding transaction data for blockchain storage while keeping detailed operational data in traditional databases. The blockchain stores essential elements such as withholding request hashes, verification results, compliance status, and transaction outcomes. This extraction approach maintains full traceability of withholding operations on the immutable blockchain while avoiding the need to store entire transaction datasets, thereby reducing blockchain data volume requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10733583B2Blockchain-based withholding operations
Publication Date: 2020.08.04 ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD
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AI summary

Implementations of this specification provide blockchain-based payment withholding operations. An example method performed by a blockchain node includes receiving a withholding transaction from a payment system connected to a blockchain, the withholding transaction having been constructed by the payment system in response to detecting a withholding request whose certificate has been stored on the blockchain; in response to receiving the withholding transaction, invoking verification logic declared in a smart contract, to verify whether the withholding information complies with a withholding rule for a target account between the payment system and a withholding requester; and after verifying that the withholding information complies with the withholding rule, generating a verification success event that causes the payment system to perform deduction processing on the target account based on the withholding information.