Transport Value Exchange With Proportional Action Rewards

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing transportation systems lack efficient mechanisms for vehicles to receive additional benefits or results based on their actions, such as performing maintenance or optimizing routes, which are not effectively linked to proportional rewards or incentives.

Innovation Solution

A method and system where a transport can receive opportunities to perform actions that provide additional results, with these results being proportional to the level of action performed, utilizing a processor and memory to manage and execute these opportunities, and potentially leveraging blockchain technology for secure and decentralized data management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a transport performs actions such as maintenance or route optimization, then operational efficiency is improved, but there is no mechanism to provide proportional rewards or incentives

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperational efficiencyVSAvoidreward mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where transports receive additional results or rewards proportional to the level of actions performed. The processor monitors transport actions, calculates the level of performance, and provides corresponding rewards, creating a closed-loop feedback system that incentivizes improved operational efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of reward allocation by making it proportional to the level of action performed rather than providing fixed rewards. This parameter change enables dynamic incentive structures that adapt to different levels of transport performance, maintenance activities, and route optimization achievements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If blockchain technology is used for secure and decentralized data management, then security is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses the transport itself as an intermediary node in the blockchain network. Each transport equipped with a processor acts as a decentralized node that participates in data management and verification, eliminating the need for a centralized authority while distributing security responsibilities across multiple transports.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The blockchain implementation enables transports to autonomously manage their own data security and participate in the decentralized network without requiring external centralized management. The processor on each transport handles local data verification and participation in the blockchain consensus mechanism, providing self-service security capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12337849B2Transport value exchange management
Publication Date: 2025.06.24 TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC
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AI summary

An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a transport, an opportunity to perform an action, where the opportunity provides an additional result to the transport and responsive to performing the action, receiving, by the transport, the additional result, where the additional result is proportional to a level of the action performed.