NFT Engine for Meaningful Memory Classification and Recreation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional techniques fail to accurately identify, memorialize, and recreate meaningful memories and experiences for retirees, leading to feelings of loneliness and melancholy, as they lack the ability to classify and enrich such memories effectively.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) engine that analyzes user data to classify memories based on thresholds, generates an NFT, and links it to a blockchain, allowing for sensory feedback to recreate the experience, incorporating data from various sources and enhancing the memory with additional context.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional techniques are used to preserve memories, then storage is achieved, but the ability to identify and classify meaningful experiences is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvememory classification accuracyVSAvoidmeaningful experience identification
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs machine learning algorithms that continuously analyze sensor data, user interactions, and contextual information to identify and classify meaningful memories. The system provides feedback loops where classified memories are refined based on user engagement and sensory feedback responses, improving classification accuracy over time while preserving the semantic meaning of experiences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces conventional manual or simple digital storage mechanisms with an intelligent system that uses machine learning, neural networks, and automated classification algorithms. This substitution enables the system to automatically identify, classify, and prioritize meaningful memories based on multiple data dimensions without requiring manual curation.

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

2Ease of operation

If conventional memory storage techniques are used, then memories are stored, but the ability to recreate experiences is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvememory recreation capabilityVSAvoidsensory experience data
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system nests multiple layers of data within memory representations, including sensor data (audio, visual, haptic), contextual information, emotional states, and metadata. This nested structure allows the system to store comprehensive experience data and selectively recreate aspects of the original experience by accessing different data layers, enabling rich memory recreation without storing every possible detail at full resolution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes parameter changes in data representation to enable efficient storage and recreation of experiences. By encoding sensory data in various formats and resolutions, and by dynamically adjusting which parameters are accessed during recreation based on user needs and available resources, the system can recreate experiences with high fidelity when needed while maintaining storage efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of information

If comprehensive data collection is implemented, then memory enrichment is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvememory enrichment qualityVSAvoiddata processing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments data collection and processing into distinct modular components: sensor data acquisition modules, contextual information gathering modules, machine learning classification modules, and memory storage modules. Each segment handles specific tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity while enabling comprehensive data collection and processing through coordinated operation of specialized subsystems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Measurement precision

If machine learning algorithms are used for memory classification, then classification accuracy improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvememory classification accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial processing by using machine learning algorithms selectively for classification tasks rather than processing all data uniformly. It employs automated classification for routine memory identification while using user feedback and contextual cues for refinement, achieving high accuracy without requiring exhaustive processing of every data point. The system performs excessive action in targeted areas (key classification decisions) while being efficient elsewhere.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20250217860A1Techniques for Preserving Memories and Experiences Through a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Engine
Publication Date: 2025.07.03 TEACHERS INSURANCE & ANNUITY ASSOC OF AMERICA
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AI summary

Techniques are described herein for system for preserving memories and experiences through a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) engine. An example system includes one or more memories storing a set of computer-readable instructions including the NFT engine and one or more processors interfacing with the one or more memories. The one or more processors are configured to execute the set of computer-readable instructions to cause the system to: receive data of a user from a time period, and execute the NFT engine to: analyze the data to classify a memory experienced by the user during the time period based on a memory threshold, generate, for display to the user, an NFT based on the memory, and mint the NFT corresponding to the memory to a blockchain, wherein a portion of the data associated with the memory is linked to the NFT.