Peer-to-Peer Communications Using Distributed Call Ledger
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Solution Overview
Problem
Complex communications systems face challenges in updating unified communications protocols, requiring downtime and multiple stages, and are prone to hacking due to centralized core components.
Innovation Solution
A peer-to-peer communications system utilizing a distributed call ledger, decentralized applications, and a distributed file system, allowing nodes to manage their own keys and preferences, reducing the need for frequent updates to central components and enhancing security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If centralized core components with unified communications protocols are used, then system-wide communication consistency is achieved, but system updates require downtime and multiple stages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized communication system into distributed peer-to-peer nodes, where each node independently runs decentralized applications. This segmentation allows individual nodes to be updated or customized without requiring system-wide downtime, as each node operates autonomously while maintaining communication through the distributed ledger.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic configuration through decentralized applications that can be independently deployed and updated on each node. The distributed call ledger dynamically records and propagates communication state changes across the network, allowing the system to adapt to node updates in real-time without requiring synchronized downtime across all components.
2Ease of operation
If centralized core components are used, then unified communications management is achieved, but security is reduced due to hacking vulnerabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the centralized communication management function into distributed decentralized applications running on individual peer-to-peer nodes. Each node manages its own communication preferences and keys locally, eliminating the single point of failure in centralized systems while maintaining coordinated communication through the distributed call ledger that records all communication states.
Solution Approach 2:
Each peer-to-peer node autonomously manages its own communication keys, preferences, and state through locally executed decentralized applications. The distributed call ledger enables nodes to self-coordinate without centralized control, allowing each node to serve itself while maintaining system-wide consistency through cryptographic verification of communication states.
3Adaptability or versatility
If decentralized applications are deployed on individual nodes, then customization capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal decentralized application framework that runs on each peer-to-peer node, providing standardized interfaces for customized call handling. This universal framework allows diverse customization capabilities across nodes while maintaining system-wide compatibility through the distributed call ledger that coordinates communication states across all customized nodes.
Solution Approach 2:
The distributed call ledger serves as an intermediary that coordinates between customized decentralized applications on individual nodes. It records and propagates communication state changes, allowing highly customized node behavior while maintaining system-wide consistency through the ledger's consensus mechanism, thus mediating between local customization and global coordination.
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AI summary
An example method of initiation a communications channel at a source node in a peer-to-peer call network, includes: generating an initiation request to initiate the communications channel between the source node and a destination node in the peer-to-peer call network, the initiation request including signaling data for the source node to allow the destination node to establish a signaling channel; sending the initiation request to the peer-to-peer call network to be propagated to the destination node; and when the signaling channel between the source node and the destination node has been established, establishing a peer-to-peer media channel between the source node and the destination node, wherein the signaling channel and the media channel form the communications channel between the source node and the destination node.