Private Digital Currency System Using Blockchain for Secure Transactions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile wallet systems rely on government-issued currencies, which are costly to produce due to counterfeiting prevention measures, and lack secure, efficient methods for transactions between users.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a private digital currency system backed by a financial institution, utilizing blockchain for secure transactions and allowing conversion to government-backed currencies through automated transaction machines, enhancing security and customer loyalty.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If government-issued currency is used for mobile wallet transactions, then transaction legitimacy is ensured, but production costs are high due to counterfeiting prevention measures

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction legitimacyVSAvoidproduction cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a digital copy of currency value stored on a blockchain distributed ledger. Instead of producing physical government-issued currency with expensive security features, the system creates cryptographic representations of value that are secured through mathematical algorithms and distributed consensus mechanisms, dramatically reducing production costs while maintaining transaction legitimacy through blockchain verification

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a financial institution and blockchain network as intermediaries between users and government-issued currency. The financial institution issues private e-currency backed by government currency, while the blockchain acts as an impartial ledger that verifies and records transactions without requiring expensive physical security features, thus reducing production costs while ensuring transaction legitimacy through cryptographic proof

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of manufacture

If private e-currency is implemented, then production costs are reduced and security is enhanced, but system complexity increases due to blockchain integration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction costVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes the blockchain network serve multiple functions: it acts as the transaction ledger, the security verification system, the transaction history database, and the consensus mechanism all in one infrastructure. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate complex systems for each function, thereby managing overall system complexity while providing secure, low-cost private e-currency transactions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The blockchain network performs self-verification and self-regulation through its distributed consensus mechanism. Transactions are automatically validated by network nodes without requiring centralized authorization, and the ledger self-updates through cryptographic proof. This self-service capability reduces the complexity of manual verification systems and administrative overhead, making the system more efficient despite the underlying technological complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11663564B1Creating and managing private electronic currency
Publication Date: 2023.05.30 WELLS FARGO BANK NA
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AI summary

Methods and systems are disclosed for transactions with a private digital currency. The private e-currency may be backed by a financial institution, managed using a blockchain, and only available for transactions with members of a network associated with the financial institution. The members may include mobile wallets, merchants and ATM's. A mobile wallet may register with the network and receive an amount of the private e-currency from the financial institution. The mobile wallet may establish a connection with a payment recipient such as another wallet, an ATM or a merchant, and receive a payee address. The mobile wallet may send a transaction request to the blockchain for payment to the payee address of a payment amount of the private e-currency, so that the payment recipient can, using a blockchain, confirm or deny the transaction request.