Digital Asset Security Ecosystem with Blockchain Hashing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current network transaction security systems are complex and prone to breaches, with conventional mechanisms becoming less secure over time, and there is a need for enhanced security in content sharing and transactions, especially in non-financial content exchanges like media sharing, where proving compromise and tracking transactions is challenging.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of blockchain technology to secure digital asset transactions by electronically capturing assets, digitally signing them with cryptographic hashes, and storing these signatures in a memory for secure distribution and tracking, enabling secure media sharing and content transactions through a digital asset ecosystem.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional transaction security mechanisms are used, then transaction security is maintained at current levels, but security becomes less effective over time as new exploitation techniques are discovered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction securityVSAvoidsecurity effectiveness duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDuration of action of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by capturing cryptographic hashes of digital assets at the moment of creation or capture, before any potential compromise can occur. This proactive approach embeds security metadata into the asset itself, allowing future verification of integrity without relying on evolving security mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates immutable copies of asset metadata including cryptographic hashes and stores them in a blockchain ledger. This copying mechanism preserves the original security state of the asset indefinitely, allowing verification against the original captured hash regardless of how long the asset circulates or how security threats evolve.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If blockchain technology is implemented to secure digital asset transactions, then immutability and traceability of content flows are provided, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction securityVSAvoidsecurity system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the security system into distinct functional components: an asset capture unit that extracts cryptographic features, a processing unit that generates security metadata, and a blockchain interface that records transactions. This modular segmentation reduces overall system complexity by assigning specific security functions to dedicated components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a blockchain ledger as an intermediary layer between digital asset transactions and security verification. This intermediary automatically records and verifies transactions through its immutable ledger, reducing the complexity of direct security verification between trading parties while maintaining high reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If cryptographic hashing is applied to digitally sign captured assets, then security and traceability are enhanced, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveasset securityVSAvoidasset processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential cryptographic hash from the entire digital asset for storage and verification purposes. By taking out just this critical security element rather than processing or storing the complete asset, the system achieves high security with minimal processing time and computational overhead.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the digital asset into a fixed-size cryptographic hash parameter, fundamentally changing the data representation from variable-size original content to fixed-size security token. This parameter transformation enables rapid processing and storage while maintaining the integrity verification capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11907940B2Systems and methods for digital asset security ecosystems
Publication Date: 2024.02.20 CABLE TELEVISION LAB INC
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AI summary

A digital asset security device, includes an asset capture unit configured to electronically capture a digital asset, a processor configured to digitally sign the captured asset, a memory configured to store a digitally signed asset from the processor, and a hashing module in communication the asset capture unit, the processor, and the memory, and configured to provide a cryptographic hash to one or more of the captured asset and the digitally signed asset.