Unique Digital Objects for Trustworthy Information Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital transformation efforts lack the necessary technological and conceptual abstractions to enable trustworthy, fully digital information exchange, hindering widespread digital transformation and cooperation.
Innovation Solution
The development of a uniform, coherent vision for digital transformation, utilizing unique digital objects and the concept of Unique Digital Reality (UDR), which enables trustworthy, fully digital information exchange and consolidation across societal, economic, financial, and legal processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If digital transformation is pursued without proper abstractions, then digital information exchange can occur, but trustworthiness and reliability of the exchange are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms information from unstructured digital data into structured digital objects with defined parameters, schemas, and metadata. This parameterization enables validation, verification, and trustworthiness while maintaining manageable complexity through standardized object models that can be implemented using existing technology.
2Productivity
If fully digital information exchange is implemented, then productivity and automation are improved, but information validation and verification become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms through validation rules, verification protocols, and metadata that automatically check digital objects during exchange. This enables high-speed automated validation where the system feedback confirms information integrity without manual intervention, resolving the contradiction between speed and validation difficulty.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual validation mechanisms with automated computational validation using schemas, data models, and validation algorithms. This substitution enables rapid automated verification of digital objects, maintaining productivity while simplifying the validation process through machine-executable rules rather than human review.
3Adaptability or versatility
If digital consolidation is achieved across multiple domains, then cooperation and information sharing are enhanced, but system complexity and integration challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates universal digital object models and schemas that can represent information across multiple domains (societal, economic, financial, legal processes). These universal models enable consistent representation and exchange of information across diverse domains, enhancing adaptability while managing integration complexity through standardized interfaces and object models that work across contexts.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to information representation, exchange, validation, and utilization. Embodiments of the invention enable a fully digital shared information reality: an information fabric, in which unlimited numbers of participants can all permanently access (with access controls) information objects that all participants can trust and verify, according to a universal set of protocols that are logically complete, address all stages of information exchange, and enable convincing, persuasive user experience. We disclose foundational embodiments that include methods to properly record, store, communicate and display information in digital form; computational verification and validation of information; and foundational concepts in human-information interaction. The invention teaches that by using unique digital objects, numerous difficulties and inefficiencies in state-of-the-art information exchange are overcome, and the next stage of digital transformation is enabled. Embodiments discussed include Next-Generation Digital Documents, Universal User Interface and Application Programming Interface for physical objects and devices, and user-friendly digital signatures.