Smart Glasses Blockchain for Secure Multi-User Document Collaboration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Updating financial and legal documents involving multiple users is cumbersome and time-consuming, as current systems require manual verification of consent and authenticity of changes, making it difficult to trace multi-user transactions and prone to fraud.
Innovation Solution
A multi-user synchronous conclave blockchain technology using smart glasses, where each user has a pair of smart glasses with a blockchain controller, change detection, and approval notification systems, allowing concurrent document editing and approval, with changes recorded in a secure and private distributed ledger.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual verification of consent and authenticity is used, then security and trust are maintained, but the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The blockchain system automatically verifies consent and authenticity of document changes without requiring manual verification. Each change is cryptographically signed and automatically validated by the network, allowing the system to serve itself in the verification process, thereby eliminating time-consuming manual checks while maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical verification processes with automated blockchain-based cryptographic verification. The system uses digital signatures, hash functions, and distributed consensus algorithms to automatically authenticate changes, substituting human manual verification with automated mechanical/electronic systems that are both faster and more reliable.
2Measurement precision
If manual review of stakeholder consent is required, then authentication accuracy is maintained, but the difficulty of tracing multi-user transactions increases
Solution Approach 1:
The blockchain system provides automatic feedback to all stakeholders about document changes and their consent status. Each change is propagated through the network, and stakeholders receive real-time notifications about changes affecting them, allowing them to verify authentication status automatically without manual review, thus improving both accuracy and traceability.
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain acts as an intermediary system between stakeholders and document changes. It mediates the verification process by automatically checking cryptographic signatures, validating consent records, and maintaining an immutable audit trail. This intermediary layer simplifies tracing multi-user transactions while maintaining high authentication accuracy through automated verification.
3Productivity
If simultaneous multi-user document updates are enabled, then productivity is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the document update process into discrete, independently verifiable transactions. Each user's change is a separate transaction with its own cryptographic signature and consent record. This segmentation allows simultaneous updates from multiple users to be processed independently and then consolidated by the blockchain, improving productivity while managing complexity through modular transaction handling.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts to simultaneous multi-user updates through its decentralized consensus mechanism. The blockchain network automatically adjusts to handle concurrent transactions, resolving conflicts and maintaining consistency without requiring complex centralized coordination. This dynamic behavior enables high productivity while the distributed nature of the system manages complexity through parallel processing across multiple nodes.
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AI summary
Apparatus and methods are provided for multiple smart glasses to enter in a distributed ledger network such as a blockchain to concurrently modify documents. These networked smart glasses may store the document and any changes made to the document in a distributed ledger, communicate the changes to the other smart glasses and request approval or disapproval of the changes. Each smart glass or user may approve or disapprove the changes suggested by other users. The document may only be finalized when all suggested changes are approved or disapproved.