NFT Digital Asset Ownership via Blockchain Intermediary

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for improved systems and methods to provide access to virtual and physical items, particularly in digital markets where existing technologies do not effectively manage scarcity and ownership of digital assets.

Innovation Solution

The use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) secured on a blockchain to represent ownership of digital assets, allowing for the generation, minting, and redemption of tokens that correspond to virtual and physical objects, enabling controlled scarcity and transfer of ownership.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If digital assets are made freely accessible and transferable, then ease of operation and market liquidity improve, but control over scarcity and ownership verification deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccessibility of digital assetsVSAvoidownership verification
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces blockchain technology as an intermediary layer that enables peer-to-peer verification of digital asset ownership without requiring trusted third parties. The blockchain ledger serves as a decentralized mediator that records and validates ownership transfers, allowing users to freely access and transfer assets while maintaining reliable ownership verification through cryptographic proof and consensus mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If digital assets are made scarce and exclusive, then value and desirability improve, but accessibility and market liquidity worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesupply of digital assetsVSAvoidaccessibility of digital assets
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic control over digital asset supply through programmable smart contracts that can automatically adjust scarcity parameters based on predefined conditions. The system allows for flexible minting, burning, and transfer restrictions that can change over time, enabling creators to optimize between scarcity-induced value and accessibility-based liquidity by adjusting supply parameters dynamically rather than statically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of manufacture

If traditional digital file systems are used, then ease of manufacture and distribution improve, but security against copying and ownership proof deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecreation of digital assetsVSAvoidanti-copying protection
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical file-based digital asset systems with a blockchain-based cryptographic system. Instead of relying on conventional file permissions and encryption that can be bypassed, the system uses cryptographic hash functions, digital signatures, and consensus mechanisms to provide inherent anti-copying protection and ownership verification. This substitution maintains ease of creation through simple minting operations while providing robust security against unauthorized copying.

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

Data Source

PatentEP4336435A1Systems and methods using digital assets
Publication Date: 2024.03.13 PUMA SE
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AI summary

A method of using a non-fungible token includes the steps of generating a first digital asset with a virtual object and minting a first non-fungible token to secure ownership of the first digital asset to a blockchain. The method further includes the steps of providing the first digital asset on a digital platform and transferring the first non-fungible token to a user wallet. The method also includes the steps of generating a second digital asset and a third digital asset, initiating a first redemption sequence upon occurrence of a first redemption event, and burning the first digital asset.