BOP Component Matching via Distributed Ledger for Trusted B2B Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current business-to-business transaction technologies lack a reliable platform for fostering collaboration and establishing trusted relationships between businesses, as they often rely on vertical relationships and proprietary systems, which limits flexibility and interoperability, and there is no existing platform to identify and verify trusted relationships between diverse business components.
Innovation Solution
A technological platform for generating and linking Business Organizing Principal (BOP) components to create a trusted network, utilizing a distributed immutable ledger like Blockchain to score and match businesses based on trust scores, allowing for flexible integration and secure transaction logging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If businesses rely on vertical relationships and proprietary internal technology, then security and control are maintained, but flexibility and interoperability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a distributed ledger platform as an intermediary that mediates between businesses, allowing them to maintain control of their own data while enabling trusted collaboration. The platform provides verification and scoring mechanisms without requiring businesses to expose their internal systems, thus maintaining reliability while improving interoperability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments business operations into discrete components that can be independently evaluated and matched on the platform. By breaking down business needs into specific BOP components, the system enables selective collaboration on individual functions while maintaining overall business autonomy, resolving the contradiction between control and flexibility
2Reliability
If businesses use proprietary internal technology, then security is maintained, but collaboration and trust verification with external entities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The distributed ledger platform serves as a neutral intermediary that handles trust verification and scoring, eliminating the need for businesses to directly integrate complex verification systems with external partners. The platform absorbs the complexity of trust management while businesses maintain simple, secure access to their own data
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables businesses to self-verify their own data and components on the platform without requiring external validation of their internal systems. Each business maintains control over what they share and how it is verified, reducing the complexity of cross-organization trust establishment
3Adaptability or versatility
If businesses break down into components for flexibility, then interoperability improves, but identifying and verifying trusted relationships between components becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a scoring system that provides continuous feedback about the trustworthiness of business components based on their interactions and performance on the platform. This automated feedback mechanism makes it easier to identify and verify trusted relationships by providing measurable metrics rather than relying on manual assessment
Solution Approach 2:
The distributed ledger platform acts as an intermediary that automatically verifies and tracks relationships between business components, reducing the difficulty of trust detection. The platform maintains records of interactions and applies verification rules, making component-level trust management more manageable despite increased flexibility
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AI summary
Embodiments are directed to a trusted platform powered by a client-side company application that implements a Business Organizing Principle (“BOP”) for a company and distributed immutable ledger, which provides the company with secure transactions and transaction data.The application's Business Organizing Principle identifies the business components for a company (e.g., HR, marketing, suppliers, etc.) which the application identifies as core, medium-core, and non-core. The application can then suggest and link the business to other businesses on the network based on matching BOP components. The platform's scoring engine uses the ledger's trusted transactions to generate a BOP network score and “local score” to augment traditional thereby creating a quickly developed trusted ecosystem for horizontal B2B integration between not just businesses, but business components.