Digital Watermarking for Cross-Platform Asset Ownership Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge of verifying digital asset ownership on social media platforms is complicated by the independence of secure digital ledgers from these platforms and the uncertainty for users in identifying the correct ledger, leading to fraudulent representation and diluted status symbols.
Innovation Solution
A digital watermarking-based verification system that embeds ownership verification messages into digital assets, allowing users to verify ownership using a client application that scans and confirms or refutes ownership through a secure digital ledger.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If secure digital ledgers are kept independent from social media platforms, then security and decentralization are maintained, but platforms cannot corroborate actual digital asset ownership
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces digital watermarks as an intermediary mechanism that bridges the gap between independent secure digital ledgers and social media platforms. The watermarks embed ownership verification data directly into digital assets, allowing platforms to verify ownership without compromising the independence or security of the underlying ledgers. This mediator enables information flow while maintaining system architecture integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by embedding ownership verification watermarks into digital assets before they are shared on social media platforms. This pre-embedding of verification data allows platforms to subsequently verify ownership without needing direct access to or integration with the secure digital ledgers, thus maintaining ledger independence while enabling verification.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple different blockchains are used to record digital asset ownership, then versatility and choice are increased, but users find it hard to identify which ledger to consult
Solution Approach 1:
Digital watermarks serve as an intermediary layer that abstracts away the complexity of multiple blockchain ledgers from end users. The watermarks contain verification data that can be read and validated without requiring users to understand or identify which specific ledger the asset is recorded on, thus maintaining versatility while simplifying user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy of the essential ownership verification information within the digital watermark itself, independent of the original ledger location. This copying of verification data into the watermark allows users to verify ownership without needing to access or identify the source ledger, simplifying the user experience while supporting multiple ledgers.
3Ease of operation
If digital assets are copied and displayed without verification, then ease of sharing is improved, but status associated with legitimate ownership is diluted
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by embedding ownership verification watermarks into digital assets before they are shared. This pre-verification allows assets to be freely shared while maintaining authenticity information, enabling platforms to verify ownership without restricting sharing capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where platforms can verify ownership information embedded in watermarks and provide visual or informational feedback to users about the authenticity of displayed assets. This feedback loop maintains status differentiation by allowing verification while preserving the ease of sharing digital assets.
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive, from a user, a request related to a digital asset, obtain, from the user, verification data for use in creating a record of ownership of the digital asset, create, using the verification data, the record of ownership of the digital asset in an ownership database, embed a digital watermark into the digital asset to generate a digitally watermarked digital asset, and provide, to the user, the digitally watermarked digital asset. The digital watermark embedded in the digitally watermarked digital asset and the record of ownership of the digital asset in the ownership database enable ownership verification of the digital asset.