Peer-to-Peer Cloud Infrastructure With Trust-Scored Leader Nodes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cloud-based service providers face issues of centralized control leading to censorship, compliance with legal demands, and vulnerability to electronic attacks, which compromise user privacy and freedom of speech.
Innovation Solution
A distributed and peer-to-peer cloud infrastructure is implemented using a C3N system, where container images are provided to collectively owned computer systems, with a leader node selected based on trust score, and follower nodes replicate writes, ensuring decentralized operation and resilience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a centralized cloud infrastructure is used, then service control and management are simplified, but censorship and electronic attacks become easier to implement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the centralized cloud infrastructure into multiple distributed nodes (leader node and follower nodes) that operate independently but coordinate through consensus. This segmentation eliminates the single point of control, making censorship and attacks ineffective as they would require compromising multiple independent entities simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of having a central authority control the cloud infrastructure, the patent inverts the model by having distributed nodes control the system through consensus mechanisms. The leader node is selected based on trust scores and can be changed dynamically, reversing the traditional centralized control paradigm.
2Device complexity
If a centralized cloud provider operates services, then infrastructure management is centralized, but user privacy and freedom of speech are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The infrastructure is segmented into multiple independently owned nodes that distribute data storage and processing across the network. This prevents any single entity from having complete access to user data, thereby protecting user privacy while maintaining manageable infrastructure through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to own and control their own data and services through distributed nodes, eliminating the need for a centralized provider to manage infrastructure. Users can selectively participate in the network based on trust scores, giving them control over their information while simplifying their own infrastructure management.
3Ease of manufacture
If cloud services rely on centralized servers, then service deployment is simplified, but resilience to failures and attacks is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments services across multiple distributed nodes rather than deploying them on centralized servers. Each node can independently continue operating even if others fail or are attacked, providing high resilience. The consensus mechanism ensures service continuity while maintaining simplified deployment through standardized node architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares for failures and attacks by distributing redundancy across the network before incidents occur. Multiple nodes replicate and verify data through consensus, creating a cushion against single-point failures or targeted attacks. This beforehand cushioning ensures resilience without complicating deployment, as the redundant architecture is built into the basic node structure.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for distributed peer-to-peer and cloud infrastructure. Container images with application services can be provided to a plurality of computer systems, wherein the plurality of computer systems are collectively owned by at least two separate entities and the plurality of computer systems can be provisioned to collectively run a plurality of nodes. From the plurality of nodes, a leader node is selected (e.g., using a C3N trust score). Other nodes may be configured as follower nodes. Cloud service requests can be processed at the leader node, wherein the processing comprises utilizing at least a portion of the follower nodes.