Distribution Management System for Derivative Product License Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively manage and protect derivative products created by users, such as customized characters or items, which are easily copied and traded, lacking appropriate protection for the original creators and their rights.
Innovation Solution
A distribution management system that includes a management section for license information and user information, a transfer detection section, and a value setting section to manage and track the transfer of derivative products, setting values based on license information, and using distributed ledger technology for secure data management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If derivative products are made easily copyable and tradable, then user customization and trading activity increase, but protection of original author rights deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a distribution management server as an intermediary between original product providers and derivative product creators/traders. This server manages license information and tracks transfers, enabling easy customization and trading while protecting original author rights through centralized license management and transfer detection mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the distribution management server continuously monitors and detects transfers of derivative products. When a transfer occurs, the server updates license information and notifies relevant parties, ensuring ongoing protection of original author rights while allowing active trading of customized products.
2Reliability
If license transfer tracking is implemented for all derivative products, then original author rights protection improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The distribution management server performs multiple functions: managing license information, detecting transfers, updating user information, and notifying original product providers. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional system, the patent reduces overall complexity compared to having separate systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines license management, transfer detection, and user information management into an integrated system. The distribution management server merges these previously separate functions, simplifying the overall architecture while maintaining comprehensive protection of original author rights through unified management.
3Reliability
If distributed ledger technology is used for information management, then data security and transfer tracking reliability improve, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes license information in the distributed ledger when derivative products are initially created. This preliminary recording of license data enables rapid transfer detection and validation later, reducing processing time during actual transactions while maintaining high reliability through the immutable ledger structure.
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AI summary
The distribution management server that is configured to: manage license information of an original product that inheres in a customized item, and user information of an item user who utilizes the customized item; and perform a transfer-related process. The transfer-related process includes: a transfer detection process of detecting the transfer of the license of the customized item from a transfer request user to a transfer destination user; a value setting process of setting the value of the original product that inheres in the customized item in the case where the license is transferred; and a license information update process of updating the license information and the user information of the customized item which is a target of the transfer when detecting the license is transferred from the transfer request user to the transfer destination user.