Integrity-Ranked Blockchain Transactions for Supply Chain Priorities
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current blockchain transactions treat all transactions equally, failing to account for varying business priorities and participant contributions in supply chains, leading to inefficiencies and difficulties in achieving industry-specific goals.
Innovation Solution
Implementing integrity-ranked transactions within a supply chain electronic communication system, where transactions are processed and recorded based on participant rankings determined by smart contracts, ensuring that users with higher integrity levels can modify or access data only if their rank is equal or higher than the object's rank, and integrating a ranking component into the blockchain framework to verify transaction feasibility and record events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If all transactions are treated equally in blockchain, then simplicity and ease of operation are maintained, but business priorities and participant contributions cannot be differentiated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different integrity ranks to different participants and transactions based on their specific contributions and roles in the supply chain. Instead of uniform treatment, each transaction is evaluated and ranked according to its local characteristics and business priority, allowing differentiated processing while maintaining overall system operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces integrity rank as a new parameter to characterize transactions. By changing the parameter from uniform treatment to ranked treatment based on integrity levels, the system can differentiate business priorities while maintaining operational simplicity through automated ranking rules.
2Adaptability or versatility
If integrity-ranked transactions are implemented, then business priorities and participant contributions are accounted for, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by allowing transactions to automatically determine their own integrity rank based on predefined rules and participant contributions. The ranking mechanism is self-executing through smart contracts, reducing the need for external intervention and manual complexity in managing transaction priorities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where transaction outcomes and participant actions feed back into the integrity ranking system. This continuous feedback loop allows the system to automatically adjust and refine transaction rankings based on actual performance and contributions, reducing complexity through adaptive automation.
3Reliability
If higher ranked participants can modify data, then data accuracy and reliability improve, but security risks and potential misuse increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by establishing integrity ranks and access permissions before data modification occurs. Participants must have pre-approved integrity ranks that authorize them to modify specific types of data. This preliminary authorization framework ensures that only qualified participants can modify data, maintaining reliability while controlling security risks through advance vetting.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses smart contracts as intermediaries between participants and data. The smart contract verifies participant integrity ranks and enforces modification rules, acting as a mediator that prevents direct unauthorized access. This intermediary layer maintains data accuracy by enforcing ranking-based permissions while mitigating security risks through automated verification.
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AI summary
The present invention involves ranking participants, which determines participation in transactions that affects the processing of transactions and recording of the transactions in block computation. A new element in a block is called integrity rank, and every transaction is processed and recorded based on the rules of the integrity rank. Every transaction also has a ranking element, which is made operational through a smart contract that governs the participation of participants. Transactions will only be considered valid and persistent on-chain if the participants of that transaction conform to the ranking logic set by the smart contract. The logic for such transactions is encoded in smart contracts.