Operation Smart Contract Management for Distributed Ledger Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
In distributed ledger systems, operation management with consistent policies and timings across multiple nodes is challenging, especially when multiple administrators are involved, as existing methods either centralize control or fail to synchronize operations due to differing policies and access restrictions.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an operation smart contract management system where each node in the distributed ledger system manages and executes operation smart contracts, allowing nodes to judge and execute transactions based on their type, ensuring consistent policies and timings across the network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single operator manages all nodes, then operation control is centralized and simplified, but the non-centralized nature of the distributed ledger system diminishes and multivendor operation capability is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments operation management into node-specific operation smart contracts that can be independently managed by different administrators at each node, while still participating in system-wide consensus. This allows multiple vendors to operate their own nodes independently while maintaining overall system coordination through the distributed ledger mechanism.
2Adaptability or versatility
If each node is managed by individual operators, then multivendor operation is enabled and non-centralization is maintained, but operation policies and timings differ across nodes leading to inconsistency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where operation smart contracts record and share operation states, policies, and timing information across the distributed ledger. Each node can query the ledger to understand what operations other nodes are performing and adjust its own operations accordingly, ensuring consistency while maintaining independent management.
Solution Approach 2:
The operation smart contract serves multiple functions: it manages node-specific operations, records operation states in the distributed ledger, enables consensus formation for system-wide operations, and provides a universal interface for different administrators to interact with the system according to their own policies while maintaining overall consistency.
3Reliability
If administrators cannot access nodes of other organizations, then organizational security and autonomy are maintained, but coordinated operation management across the distributed ledger system becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The distributed ledger itself acts as an intermediary that enables secure coordination between administrators of different organizations. Each administrator can interact with the ledger to propose, vote on, and track system-wide operations without needing direct access to other nodes. The consensus mechanism mediates between different organizational policies to reach agreement on coordinated actions.
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AI summary
Operation management with consistent policies and timings between nodes even in a situation where there are a plurality of administrators in the distributed ledger system is realized. In an operation management system 10 for a distributed ledger system 6 comprising a plurality of nodes, each of at least two or more predetermined nodes in the plurality of nodes manages an operation smart contract 372 for operation management of the distributed ledger system with a distributed ledger 37, when at least one node in the two or more predetermined nodes receives a transaction, the node which has received the transaction judges whether or not a type of the transaction is the operation smart contract 372, and, based on the judgment result, executes the operation smart contract 372.