Blockchain Nodes for Trustworthy Messages in Smart City Telecommunications

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Solution Overview

Problem

Telecommunications networks face vulnerabilities that allow fraudulent and deceitful acts, necessitating improved security measures to prevent exploitation by nefarious actors.

Innovation Solution

Implementing blockchain functionality to telecommunications networks, devices, and systems as nodes, enabling them to self-regulate and verify trustworthy communications through blockchain operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If blockchain functionality is implemented in telecommunications networks, then trustworthiness verification is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetrustworthiness verificationVSAvoidnetwork complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the blockchain verification process into distributed components where individual network elements (routers, switches, gateways) operate as autonomous nodes. Each node maintains a copy of the blockchain and independently verifies messages, dividing the complex verification task across multiple simpler units rather than requiring a single complex centralized system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Existing network infrastructure components are made multi-functional by enabling them to perform both their traditional communication functions and blockchain verification functions. The same routers and switches that handle data routing also maintain blockchain ledgers and validate messages, eliminating the need for separate dedicated verification hardware and reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If blockchain operations are performed for every message, then message verification reliability is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemessage verification reliabilityVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary blockchain verification actions during network setup and device registration phases, where devices establish their identities and credentials in the blockchain before actual message communication occurs. This preliminary verification ensures that only authenticated devices can communicate, reducing the need for repeated verification during message transmission and minimizing processing time.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The blockchain provides feedback mechanisms where verified devices receive cryptographic confirmations and trust scores are updated based on their communication behavior. This feedback loop allows the system to optimize future verification processes by leveraging previously established trust relationships, reducing processing time for messages from verified sources while maintaining high reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12408037B2Using a blockchain to determine trustworthiness of messages within a telecommunications network for a smart city

Publication Date: 2025.09.02 T MOBILE US INC

AI summary

Systems and methods are described herein for configuring vehicles and infrastructure (e.g., buildings, smart homes, traffic devices, utilities and associated systems, emergency response systems, and so on) to include blockchain nodes, so a smart city or area of the various devices can be supported by a blockchain network, with some or all devices and systems provisioned with nodes acting as distributed nodes for the blockchain network.