Resource Stability Indicator for Emerging Network Nodes
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Solution Overview
Problem
New and emerging nodes often have inaccurate or unacceptable resource health indicators due to minimal interactions, making it difficult for them to acquire resources or provide services, despite offering unique and in-demand offerings.
Innovation Solution
A system and method to determine a resource stability/confidence indicator for emerging nodes by weighting and averaging the conventional resource health indicators of downstream and upstream nodes, with greater emphasis on nodes that receive or provide more resources, thereby establishing a credible index for resource acquisition and service provision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If new and emerging nodes use conventional resource health indicators based on their own minimal interactions, then the indicator calculation is simple, but the accuracy and reliability of the indicator deteriorates making it unacceptable for resource acquisition
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses downstream node resource health indicators as an intermediary to determine the emerging node's resource stability indicator. Instead of directly measuring the emerging node's resource health (which is inaccurate due to minimal interactions), the system measures the resource health of downstream nodes that receive resources from the emerging node, and uses these measurements to infer the emerging node's stability. This intermediary approach allows accurate assessment without requiring extensive direct interaction history from the emerging node itself.
2Measurement precision
If new and emerging nodes wait to accumulate sufficient interactions to develop accurate conventional resource health indicators, then indicator accuracy improves, but the time required for resource acquisition and network integration increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by determining the resource stability indicator for emerging nodes based on downstream node data before the emerging nodes have accumulated sufficient interaction history to develop accurate conventional indicators. By using the resource health indicators of downstream nodes (which have established interaction histories), the system provides emerging nodes with reliable stability indicators immediately, enabling them to acquire resources and integrate into the network without waiting for their own interaction history to mature.
3Reliability
If new and emerging nodes are excluded from resource acquisition due to poor resource health indicators, then network resource stability is maintained, but the loss of unique and innovative objects/services from these nodes occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses downstream node resource health indicators as an intermediary to assess emerging nodes, allowing the network to evaluate the reliability of innovative nodes through the stability of their transaction partners rather than through the nodes' own limited interaction history. This enables the network to maintain resource stability while incorporating innovative emerging nodes, as the assessment is based on the established reliability of downstream nodes that the emerging nodes transact with.
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AI summary
Resource health indication for new and/or emerging nodes is provided in the form of a a resource stability/confidence indicator that is based at least on, and in some instances solely on, the conventional resource health indicators of downstream nodes (i.e., nodes that receive resources from the new/emerging node in exchange for objects and/or services), and, in some embodiments, upstream nodes (i.e., nodes that receive objects and/or services from the emerging new node in exchange for resources) and/or secondary downstream and/or upstream nodes (i.e., nodes that receive or provide resources from or to the primary downstream and upstream nodes). The emerging/new node is provided with a resource stability indicator that can be used to acquire resources for obtaining objects and/or services from downstream nodes and/or provide confidence that the new/emerging node will provide objects/resources to upstream nodes.