Virtual Keyboard Service with Cryptocurrency NFT Rewards
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual keyboard services lack incentives for active communication between users and fail to provide diverse benefits based on usage, relying on conventional point systems rather than blockchain technology.
Innovation Solution
A virtual keyboard service that utilizes blockchain technology to reward users with cryptocurrency for using a virtual keyboard, where keyboard Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have attributes that increase in value with usage, allowing for cryptocurrency mining and rewards based on efficiency and durability, with options for reinforcement, lending, and minting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional point system is used for virtual keyboard service, then the service structure is simple and easy to implement, but user incentive and active communication are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the reward system from conventional points to cryptocurrency tokens, changing the fundamental parameter of reward value. This enables users to earn real economic value through keyboard usage and communication activities, significantly enhancing user incentive while maintaining a relatively simple service structure through blockchain integration
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual keyboard service is enhanced to serve multiple functions: it acts as both a communication tool and a cryptocurrency mining platform. The keyboard NFT can be used for typing, lending to others, reinforcement to increase capability, and as collateral for loans, providing diverse benefits beyond simple point accumulation
2Adaptability or versatility
If blockchain technology is introduced to provide cryptocurrency rewards, then user incentive and diverse benefits are enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that manages the blockchain integration, handling cryptocurrency distribution, NFT management, and communication between users and the blockchain network. This intermediary approach allows complex blockchain functionality to be accessed through a simplified user interface, enhancing rewards while managing system complexity centrally
Solution Approach 2:
The keyboard NFT automatically tracks usage statistics and communication activities, self-reporting data to the server for cryptocurrency calculation and distribution. This self-service mechanism reduces the need for manual intervention and complex centralized control, enabling automated reward distribution based on actual usage
3Productivity
If keyboard NFT capability increases with usage, then user engagement and communication activity increase, but NFT durability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a durability recovery mechanism where the NFT's durability is periodically restored through reinforcement actions. Users can perform reinforcement transactions to reset or extend the durability of their keyboard NFT, allowing sustained long-term usage and communication activity without permanent degradation
Solution Approach 2:
The keyboard NFT's capability and durability are made dynamic rather than static. Capability increases with usage to reward active users, while durability can be restored through reinforcement actions. This dynamic system allows the NFT to adapt to usage patterns, maintaining both high productivity and extended duration through balanced degradation and recovery
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are a method for providing a virtual keyboard service that pays cryptocurrency rewards and an apparatus using the same. The method and apparatus may monitor use of a virtual keyboard by a user who holds a keyboard Non-Fungible Token (NFT) based on an application, measure a keyboard NFT capability in consideration of a keyboard NFT attribute varying with a usage of the virtual keyboard, mine cryptocurrency in conformity with the keyboard NFT capability while the virtual keyboard is used, and pay the mined cryptocurrency to the user as a reward. Accordingly, upon providing a keyboard service for terminals used by multiple users more diverse benefits may be provided without being limited to simple usage of a keyboard, thus inducing an amount of communication between family members, friends, and acquaintances to be increased, with the result that the use of the service can be effectively extended.