Digital Media Asset Customization via Distributed Ledger
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems lack the ability to manage and ensure the rarity and uniqueness of digital media assets, such as eBooks, which limits their value and authenticity, as they cannot track or verify customized or autographed instances, making it difficult for creators to benefit from the special interest of collectors.
Innovation Solution
A system using a distributed ledger to track ownership and modifications of digital media assets, allowing for the creation of customized versions that can be uniquely identified and verified, ensuring the rarity and authenticity of these assets, and enabling secure peer-to-peer transactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional digital media asset systems are used, then digital media assets can be purchased and distributed through digital storefronts, but the rarity and uniqueness of customized digital media assets cannot be tracked or verified
Solution Approach 1:
A distributed ledger acts as an intermediary between digital media assets and ownership information, recording and verifying ownership transfers and customization events. The ledger stores cryptographic hashes of asset identifiers alongside ownership data, enabling authentication of rarity and uniqueness without centralizing control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces conventional centralized database systems with a distributed ledger technology (blockchain) to track ownership and verify authenticity. This substitution provides immutable, decentralized verification of asset rarity and ownership history, solving the reliability issue while preserving information integrity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If digital media assets are made customizable, then collectors can obtain unique assets, but the system complexity increases to track and verify modifications
Solution Approach 1:
The system tracks customization by recording changes in asset parameters (modifications, autographs, annotations) on the distributed ledger. Each customization event alters the asset's digital fingerprint (cryptographic hash), creating a verifiable history of transformations that proves uniqueness without requiring complex centralized tracking infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses cryptographic hashing to create digital copies of asset identifiers and stores them on the distributed ledger. These hash copies serve as verifiable proofs of asset existence and customization history, enabling complexity-free verification of unique digital media assets through simple hash comparison.
3Reliability
If a distributed ledger is implemented to track ownership, then authenticity and rarity can be verified, but the system requires new infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The distributed ledger serves multiple functions simultaneously: it tracks ownership transfers, verifies asset authenticity, records customization history, and enables rarity verification. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate tracking systems into a single infrastructure, reducing overall system complexity despite the introduction of new technology.
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AI summary
In some implementations, a computing device may obtain an original digital media asset published to a server device along with a distributed ledger that tracks ownership of the original digital media asset. The computing device may generate a customized digital media asset that replaces the original digital media asset, and modify the distributed ledger to indicate the customization or modification of the original digital media asset and identify the customized digital media asset and the ownership thereof. The computing device may publish the customized digital media asset to a server device for distribution. Upon transfer of ownership of the customized digital media asset to a new owner, the distributed ledger may be modified to indicate the new ownership of the customized digital media asset.