Smart Contract Integrated Collaborative Crowdwork System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current digital platforms lack decentralized mechanisms for real-time, verifiable collaborative work involving human agents, as they either exclude human participation or fail to ensure trust and efficient compensation in collaborative data processing tasks.

Innovation Solution

A blockchain-based system that utilizes smart contracts to facilitate real-time collaborative actions by generating and managing action contracts, providing incentives, and ensuring verification and compensation for human agents performing tasks, while allowing for human-in-the-loop processing and collaboration through standardized interfaces and AI analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a centralized market platform is used to manage collaborative work, then trust and dispute resolution mechanisms are provided, but the system requires trust in the centralized authority and creates marketplace inefficiency

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetrust and dispute resolutionVSAvoidcentralized authority dependency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a smart contract as an intermediary mediator that automatically enforces agreement terms through coded rules on the blockchain. This eliminates the need for trust in centralized authorities while maintaining reliable dispute resolution, as the smart contract objectively executes terms without human intervention or bias.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of centralized authority management with a cryptographic blockchain system. Trust is shifted from institutional authority to mathematical proof and decentralized consensus, eliminating the need for centralized dispute resolution mechanisms while maintaining system reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Device complexity

If a decentralized market is used to eliminate centralized authority, then trust-free interactions are enabled, but dispute resolution mechanisms and guarantees are reduced or eliminated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedecentralized structureVSAvoiddispute resolution guarantees

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional centralized dispute resolution mechanisms with blockchain-based cryptographic verification and smart contract enforcement. Dispute resolution is embedded in the code itself, providing automatic, transparent, and tamper-proof guarantees without requiring centralized authority or complex institutional structures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If human agents are excluded from digital platforms, then automated processing efficiency is improved, but real-time collaborative actions requiring human judgment cannot be performed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveautomated processing efficiencyVSAvoidhuman collaborative capability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments work into discrete, verifiable actions that can be independently executed and validated. Human agents perform specific collaborative actions that are broken down into atomic units, each of which can be verified by the smart contract. This enables both automated verification efficiency and human judgment capability simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements immediate feedback loops where human actions are verified by smart contracts in real-time, and compensation is automatically provided upon verification. This feedback mechanism enables efficient coordination between human agents and automated systems, maintaining both productivity and human collaborative versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Productivity

If traditional compensation mechanisms are used in collaborative platforms, then incentives can be provided, but trust and efficient verification of work completion are lacking

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveincentive provisionVSAvoidwork verification

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional trust-based compensation mechanisms with automated smart contract enforcement. Compensation is programmed to be released automatically upon verification of work completion through cryptographic proof, eliminating the need for manual verification while maintaining reliable incentive provision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The smart contract performs self-verification of work completion through coded validation rules, automatically determining whether compensation criteria are met. This self-service verification mechanism provides both efficient incentive provision and reliable work verification without requiring external trust or manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20240330860A1Smart Contract Integrated Collaborative Crowdwork System and Method

Publication Date: 2024.10.03 HYDE DAVID ANDREW BULLOCH

AI summary

A system and method are presented for performing actions in a collaborative and potentially continuous manner. The actions and the reward for performing the actions can be defined by a blockchain-based smart contract. A project defines the actions to be performed, the data upon which to act, and reward. The project definition is used to establish the smart contract. Multiple agent computers receive data and interfaces sufficient to perform the actions on the data. Collaboration tools can be provided through the agent computer systems to allow communications and other interactions between agent computer systems.