Linked Blockchain Structures for Multi-Chain Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for managing acceptance reports in IT service delivery lack efficient data access and retrieval, leading to computational inefficiencies and delays in verifying the quality and adherence to contractual agreements between clients and service providers due to the absence of standardized acceptance standards and linked databases.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain-based system that links multiple blockchains to store and retrieve acceptance reports, including contextual information, allowing quick access and navigation through the blockchains to determine the operability of products and services, thereby establishing a standardized framework for acceptance reports.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple separate databases are used to store acceptance reports and product information, then data security and immutability are improved, but data access speed and retrieval efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate databases (product database, acceptance report database, contractual agreement database) into a single integrated blockchain structure. Blocks in the blockchain contain cross-referential identifiers that link product information, acceptance reports, and contractual agreements together, allowing the system to maintain data security through decentralization while improving access speed by enabling direct navigation between related data elements within the same distributed ledger.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments data into distinct but linked blocks within the blockchain, where each block contains specific information (product details, acceptance reports, contractual terms) and includes identifiers that reference related blocks. This segmentation allows the system to maintain the security benefits of distributed storage while enabling efficient retrieval by jumping directly to specific blocks using their identifiers, rather than searching through entire databases.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive acceptance reports with contextual information are stored, then verification accuracy and quality assessment are improved, but data storage complexity and retrieval difficulty worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces block identifiers and cross-referential links as intermediary elements that connect product information, acceptance reports, and contractual agreements. These identifiers act as mediators that simplify access to comprehensive data by providing direct navigation paths, reducing the complexity of retrieving and verifying contextual information while maintaining complete verification accuracy.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual verification processes are used for acceptance reports, then flexibility in handling diverse report formats is improved, but processing speed and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of data structure by implementing a standardized blockchain format with fixed fields for product information, acceptance reports, and contractual agreements. This standardized structure enables automated verification processes while maintaining adaptability through the flexible nature of blockchain, allowing the system to handle diverse report types within a consistent framework and dramatically improving processing speed through automated validation.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques are described for linked blockchains that allow computing devices to access information from an acceptance blockchain about acceptance reports stored in an enterprise delivery blockchain that are also linked to a product blockchain that stores information of the products of the acceptance reports. An acceptance report is indicative of operability of a product in a service provided by a service provider. A processor is configured to access the block in the enterprise delivery blockchain, retrieve the acceptance report from the block in the enterprise delivery blockchain, determine an identifier, identified in the block in the enterprise delivery blockchain, to a block in an acceptance blockchain, access the block in the acceptance blockchain via the determined identifier, retrieve from the block in the acceptance blockchain contextual information of the acceptance report, and output the acceptance report and contextual information of the acceptance report.