Datalink Layer Event Triggering for Digital Asset Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication systems face vulnerabilities in tracking digital asset usage across multiple platforms due to application layer-dependent event triggering, which creates challenges in reliability and accuracy, especially with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and smart contracts.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a communication device and method that enables application layer-independent triggering of events at the datalink layer, reducing dependency on the application layer for event triggering, thereby improving tracking reliability and accuracy of digital asset usage across various platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If application layer controls event triggering for digital asset usage, then application-specific functionality is maintained, but tracking reliability and accuracy deteriorate due to vulnerabilities in application layer security
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves event triggering from the application layer to the data link layer, changing the dimensional level at which triggering occurs. This allows the system to bypass application layer vulnerabilities while maintaining tracking functionality, as the data link layer operates at a lower network dimension with different security characteristics
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the event triggering function from the application layer and assigns it to the data link layer. This segmentation separates the triggering mechanism from application-specific code, thereby isolating it from application layer vulnerabilities and improving overall tracking reliability
2Measurement precision
If application layer controls event triggering, then application-specific protocols are used, but tracking accuracy deteriorates due to inability to track across multiple platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal triggering mechanism at the data link layer that can detect and trigger events across different applications and platforms. By using layer-independent triggering, the system achieves platform versatility while maintaining consistent tracking accuracy, as the data link layer serves multiple applications uniformly
Solution Approach 2:
The data link layer acts as an intermediary between the physical transmission medium and higher application layers. This intermediary position allows it to uniformly detect and trigger events for digital asset usage across multiple platforms and applications, providing consistent tracking accuracy without being bound to any single application protocol
3Reliability
If application layer triggers events, then application-specific logic is executed, but security vulnerabilities increase due to application layer weaknesses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the event triggering function from the application layer and relocates it to the data link layer. This extraction removes the triggering mechanism from the vulnerable application layer, thereby improving security reliability while the data link layer handles the simplified triggering operation
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AI summary
A first communication device includes a processor that receives a data signal from a second communication device. The processor converts the data signal to a bit stream at a physical layer of a network architecture, and detects the defined signature associated with a data packet based on the conversion of the data signal. An event is triggered in a communication network at the datalink layer irrespective of an involvement of an application layer of the network architecture at the first communication device based on the detected defined signature associated with the data packet.