Digital Knowledge Tokenization for Secure Rights Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in securely controlling and managing access and control rights to digital knowledge, including issues with trust, opacity, asymmetry of information, and complexity in lending transactions, while energy-intensive computing operations contribute to significant energy consumption and uncertainty in optimizing facilities.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain-based knowledge distribution system with smart contracts manages digital knowledge rights, enabling secure storage, tokenization, and controlled access through a cryptographically secure distributed ledger, facilitating efficient and reliable market participation and lending processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a blockchain-based knowledge distribution system with smart contracts is implemented to securely control and manage access rights to digital knowledge, then security and control over digital knowledge access is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a blockchain-based knowledge distribution system as an intermediary layer between digital knowledge creators and consumers. This system uses smart contracts to automatically manage access rights, licensing terms, and royalty distributions, thereby improving security and control while abstracting the complexity away from individual users through automated enforcement mechanisms.
2Reliability
If digital knowledge is tokenized and stored on a distributed ledger for secure access control, then reliability of rights management is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to cryptographic complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements tokenization of digital knowledge where each knowledge asset is represented by a digital token on the blockchain. These tokens serve as simplified copies or representations of the underlying intellectual property rights, allowing users to interact with standardized token interfaces rather than directly managing complex cryptographic key pairs and ledger operations, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining reliability.
3Productivity
If smart contracts are used to automate rights control and access management, then productivity of knowledge distribution is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs smart contracts that automatically execute licensing agreements, access control decisions, and royalty distributions without human intervention. The system enables self-service functionality where users can autonomously negotiate terms, access licensed content, and receive payments through automated contract execution, thereby improving productivity while the complexity is contained within the self-executing contract logic rather than requiring complex external management systems.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for controlling rights related to digital knowledge are disclosed. A sample system may include an input system to receive digital knowledge from a user, a tokenization system to tokenize the digital knowledge and a ledger management system to create, manage, and store things on a distributed ledger and provide provable access to the digital knowledge. A smart contract system may create a smart contract including triggering action is and respond with a defined smart contract action on an occurrence of the triggering event. The smart contract system may also process commitments to the smart contract.