Vehicle Seat Blockchain Repository for Secure Data Classification

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Solution Overview

Problem

The disorganization of vehicle seat information across various sources and the credibility issues with publicly available data make it difficult for consumers to find comprehensive and trustworthy information, leading to potential safety risks and ill-informed decisions.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system that uses smart contracts on a blockchain to classify and manage data related to vehicle seats, ensuring that publicly accessible information is easily accessible while proprietary data is encrypted and accessible only to authorized entities, thereby creating a centralized and secure repository.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If vehicle seat information is scattered across various public sources, then information accessibility is improved, but information reliability and organization deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation accessibilityVSAvoidinformation reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments vehicle seat information into two distinct categories: public information (accessible to all blockchain participants) and private information (restricted to authorized entities only). This segmentation is implemented through smart contracts that classify and manage different types of data, allowing consumers to access reliable public information while proprietary data remains protected, thus resolving the contradiction between accessibility and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of information

If all vehicle seat information is made publicly accessible, then information transparency is improved, but proprietary data security deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transparencyVSAvoidproprietary data security
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different access permissions to different portions of the blockchain database. Public information is stored in a transparent, accessible format for all participants, while private information is encrypted and accessible only to authorized entities. This allows the system to simultaneously achieve high transparency for consumer-relevant data while maintaining security for proprietary data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If a centralized database is used to organize vehicle seat information, then information organization is improved, but system security and trustworthiness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation organizationVSAvoidsystem trustworthiness
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from traditional centralized database architecture to a decentralized blockchain architecture, adding the dimension of distributed consensus. Information is organized through smart contracts that automatically classify and manage data, while the blockchain's distributed nature ensures trustworthiness through cryptographic verification and immutability, resolving the contradiction between organization and trust.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS20240273225A1Methods and Systems for Generating, Maintaining, and Using Information Related to Vehicle Seats Stored on a Blockchain
Publication Date: 2024.08.15 STATE FARM MUTAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
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AI summary

Methods and systems for maintaining and classifying data related to vehicle seats stored on a blockchain. The systems and methods may include (1) detecting one or more sets of data relating to vehicle seats; (2) executing a data maintenance smart contact to classify the sets of data as being publicly accessible or proprietary; (3) based upon the classification assigned by the data maintenance smart contract, adding the one or more sets of data to a data repository accessible via a blockchain; (4) detecting a request to access a requested set of proprietary data from a requestor; (5) executing a security smart contract to determine whether the requestor is authorized to access the requested set of proprietary data; and/or (6) enforcing the determination of the security smart contract with respect to the request.