Virtual Rights Assertion System for Digital Airspace

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Solution Overview

Problem

Real property owners face difficulties in asserting and enforcing virtual rights, such as digital air rights, due to the abstract nature of these rights, leading to inconsequential impact on encroachments by digital technologies like geofencing.

Innovation Solution

A computer system and method for facilitating the claiming, verifying, recording, and enforcing of virtual rights associated with real properties, involving a processing element and communications element to create user accounts, generate notices, and manage databases for virtual rights, allowing property owners to assert and monetize their virtual rights through a marketplace.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If virtual rights are asserted without a formal system, then property owners can maintain flexibility and avoid complex procedures, but the rights have inconsequential impact and cannot effectively prevent encroachments by digital technologies

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveeffectiveness of virtual rights enforcementVSAvoidcomplexity of rights assertion system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a notice system as an intermediary between property owners and digital technology users. The notice, when recorded in a database and transmitted to relevant parties, serves as a formal mediator that enables property owners to assert virtual rights without requiring complex enforcement mechanisms. This intermediary structure transforms abstract virtual rights into actionable claims that can prevent encroachments.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system requires property owners to take preliminary action by recording notices in a database before digital encroachments occur. This preliminary assertion of rights establishes a formal record that can be referenced later to prevent or address encroachments, making the rights enforcement process more reliable without requiring complex real-time intervention systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If a formal system for asserting virtual rights is implemented, then property owners can effectively enforce their rights and prevent encroachments, but the process becomes more complex and difficult to operate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of asserting virtual rightsVSAvoidcomplexity of rights management system

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses digital copies and records of notices in a database to represent virtual rights assertions. Instead of requiring complex physical enforcement mechanisms, the system relies on creating and storing digital copies of notice documents that can be transmitted and referenced. This copying approach simplifies the operation of asserting rights while maintaining formal effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces traditional mechanical or physical enforcement mechanisms with electronic communication and database storage. By substituting physical notice delivery with electronic transmission and digital record-keeping, the system reduces operational complexity while maintaining the legal and practical effectiveness of rights assertions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Object-affected harmful factors

If virtual rights are not formally recorded and enforced, then the system remains simple and abstract, but digital technologies can encroach on real property usage without consequence

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveencroachment on real property usageVSAvoidcomplexity of verification and enforcement system

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where notices are recorded in a database and can be transmitted to relevant parties, creating a loop that provides confirmation and enforcement capability. This feedback system allows property owners to assert rights and receive verification that their notices have been recorded, enabling effective prevention of encroachments without requiring complex monitoring or enforcement infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The database and notice transmission system serve as intermediaries that formalize the relationship between property owners and digital technology users. This intermediary structure provides a clear mechanism for asserting rights and preventing encroachments, transforming abstract virtual rights into enforceable claims without requiring complex direct enforcement mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20240281913A2System and method of claiming, verifying, recording, and enforcing digital air rights

Publication Date: 2024.08.22 DIGITAL AIR RIGHTS LLC

AI summary

A computing system and computer-implemented method for facilitating an assertion of virtual rights associated with a real property for an assertive entity. The computing system broadly comprises a processing element and a communications element. The computer-implemented method broadly comprises steps of, via the computing system, maintaining a database of virtual rights associated with real properties including the real property, creating a user account corresponding to a virtual rights claimant, associating the user account with the real property, and generating a notice representing the assertion of virtual rights by the assertive entity of the real property.