Digital Asset Combinability via Layered Metadata
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital asset management systems lack the ability to effectively create and manage collectible non-fungible digital assets that can combine to form unique layered scenes, which are valuable and have enhanced attributes, such as metadata for combinability and conditional parameters, leading to limited user engagement and asset value.
Innovation Solution
A digital asset management system generates sets of collectible non-fungible digital assets with metadata specifying their combinability to form layered scenes, using blockchain for ownership tracking and enabling conditional parameters for dynamic scene adaptation, allowing users to combine and enhance digital assets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If digital assets are designed as simple individual items, then they are easy to manage and store, but they lack the ability to combine and form unique layered scenes with enhanced value
Solution Approach 1:
The digital asset is divided into multiple independent layers, each representing a distinct visual element that can be individually managed, stored, and combined. This segmentation allows assets to maintain simplicity when stored separately while enabling complex layered scene creation when combined, resolving the contradiction between ease of management and combinatorial versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple digital asset layers are nested within a unified asset structure that contains metadata defining their combinability. Each layer is embedded with identification information that enables automatic recognition and proper stacking order when forming layered scenes, allowing individual assets to remain simple while the collective structure provides enhanced adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If digital assets include detailed metadata for combinability and conditional parameters, then they can form complex layered scenes with enhanced attributes, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms complex combinatorial logic into simple parameter-based metadata attached to each digital asset layer. By encoding combinability rules, stacking orders, and conditional display parameters directly in the asset metadata, the system enables complex layered scene formation without increasing overall system complexity, as the complexity is localized to individual asset definitions rather than the entire system architecture.
3Reliability
If digital assets are designed for individual ownership tracking, then blockchain can effectively manage ownership, but the system cannot track ownership of combined layered scenes
Solution Approach 1:
The blockchain system is designed to track ownership at multiple levels: individual digital asset layers and their combined layered scenes. The metadata structure includes both individual asset identifiers and composite scene identifiers, allowing the same blockchain infrastructure to verify ownership of single assets or entire layered compositions, thus providing universal ownership tracking capability that resolves the contradiction between individual and collective asset management.
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AI summary
An exemplary method includes a digital asset management system generating a set of collectible non-fungible digital assets, generating metadata specifying that non-fungible digital assets included the set of collectible non-fungible digital assets are configured to combine together to form a layered scene configured to be presented by a computer system, and recording, in a distributed record configured to track ownership of non-fungible digital assets, ownership information associated with the set of collectible non-fungible digital assets.