Drone Swarm Attestation for Content Rights Attribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
In drone swarms capturing information, overlapping data complicates the assignment of rights and value to captured content, especially when multiple entities operate the drones, leading to diluted rights and value for each entity.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system where drones attest to their authenticity using one-time programmable fuses and record positional information, with a content sink device aggregating the content and assigning rights and value based on 3D positional relationships, ensuring accurate attribution and ownership.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple drones are deployed in a swarm to capture information, then the quantity of captured content increases, but the rights and value assigned to each entity's content are diluted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the swarm into individual drone entities, each with distinct digital identifiers and cryptographic keys. This segmentation allows the system to track and attribute content to specific drones even when multiple drones capture overlapping information, preventing dilution of rights and value for each entity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a blockchain-based intermediary system that acts as a neutral mediator between drones and content users. This intermediary maintains a distributed ledger that records provenance, ownership, and licensing information for each drone's content, enabling automated rights management and value assignment without human intervention.
2Reliability
If drones operated by different entities capture overlapping data, then the coverage and completeness of captured information improve, but the clarity of rights assignment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of rights assignment from manual legal processes to automated cryptographic verification. Each drone's digital signature and blockchain-recorded provenance automatically verify ownership and licensing terms, simplifying rights assignment despite multiple entities operating drones that capture overlapping data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the blockchain system automatically verifies drone identities, content provenance, and licensing compliance before allowing content distribution. This automated feedback loop ensures clear rights assignment by validating each transaction against recorded ownership information.
3Ease of operation
If a centralized system tracks content provenance, then rights assignment becomes simpler, but the system's vulnerability to single points of failure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the advantages of centralized simplicity and distributed reliability by combining a user-friendly blockchain interface with a distributed ledger infrastructure. The blockchain network distributes data across multiple nodes, eliminating single points of failure while maintaining simple automated rights assignment through smart contracts that users can interact with through standardized interfaces.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments are generally directed to providing information capture by multiple drones, which may operate in a swarm, while maintaining rights and/or value assigned to the content authored by each drone or by subsets of drones. In general, the present disclosure provides that drones participating in content acquisition may attest to their authenticity to establish trust between drones in the swarm.