NFT Authenticity Protocol for Media Metadata Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

The media content industry faces challenges in tracking and managing metadata associated with audio recordings, leading to difficulties in licensing, recognizing contributors, and maintaining rights information, with current manual techniques often resulting in lost or incomplete data.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for creating, managing, and sharing media content items with associated metadata using a digital vault that generates a container file including media content and metadata, allowing for verification, updating, and tracking of metadata completeness, and utilizing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to represent and transfer ownership rights.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual techniques are used for metadata management, then ease of operation is maintained, but reliability of data tracking deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemetadata tracking reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an NFT-based intermediary system that mediates between content creators and metadata management. The NFT acts as a trusted intermediary that automatically tracks and verifies metadata authenticity, eliminating the need for complex manual tracking systems while ensuring reliable data integrity throughout the content lifecycle.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates digital copies of metadata and stores them on the blockchain through NFTs. This copying mechanism ensures that metadata is preserved in an immutable format, allowing multiple parties to access and verify the same trusted data without requiring complex centralized management systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If NFT-based tracking system is implemented, then reliability of rights management is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverights management reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal NFT-based platform that handles multiple functions including rights management, metadata tracking, contributor recognition, and licensing in a single integrated system. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate complex systems for each function, making the overall implementation more manageable despite the advanced technology involved.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The NFT system operates autonomously to track rights and metadata without requiring continuous manual intervention. The blockchain automatically verifies and records transactions, rights transfers, and metadata changes, reducing the operational complexity of managing rights while maintaining high reliability through automated enforcement of smart contracts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Loss of information

If comprehensive metadata collection is enforced, then information completeness is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemetadata completenessVSAvoidmetadata management ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent requires metadata to be collected and stored in NFTs at the time of content creation, rather than attempting to gather it later. This preliminary action ensures that all necessary information is captured when it is most accessible, preventing future data loss while automating the collection process to minimize the operational burden on creators.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides automated feedback to creators about which metadata fields are required and whether their submissions are complete. This real-time feedback mechanism guides users through the metadata collection process, ensuring completeness without requiring them to manually track or remember all required fields, thereby maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

4Measurement precision

If automated verification processes are implemented, then measurement precision of metadata is improved, but productivity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemetadata verification accuracyVSAvoidcontent processing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual metadata verification processes with automated blockchain-based verification. The NFT system automatically validates metadata authenticity and integrity through cryptographic proofs, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual review while maintaining high precision. This substitution of mechanical verification with automated digital verification preserves processing speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

Metadata is verified and authenticated at the point of NFT creation, before the content enters the distribution pipeline. This preliminary verification ensures that only accurate and complete metadata is stored on the blockchain, eliminating the need for subsequent verification steps that would slow down content processing and distribution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11687628B2Non-fungible token (NFT) authenticity protocol with fraud deterrent
Publication Date: 2023.06.27 TUNEGO INC
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AI summary

A system and method for performing a verification process of media content comprising, for example, receiving, via a digital vault, identification information from a non-fungible token (NFT) creator user or owner user of an NFT, wherein the NFT creator user initiates a minting process that creates the NFT for exchange on an NFT marketplace of the digital vault, and wherein the NFT is associated with a container file comprising media content submitted by a first user; verifying, via the digital vault, the identification information from the NFT creator user by comparing the identification information with stored user information at the digital vault; transmitting, via the digital vault, a confirmation code to the NFT creator user; and upon receiving the confirmation code, providing diligence information during a verification process to an NFT collector user in the NFT marketplace of the digital vault in verifying authenticity of the NFT creator user.