Tokenizing digital assets with restrictions on a blockchain

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11790096-B2
Application number	US-202117227420-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 12, 2021
Priority date	Apr 12, 2021
Publication date	Oct 17, 2023
Grant date	Oct 17, 2023

Abstract

An electronic device receives, from a user, a restriction that restricts how sound of a digital asset plays to non-owners of the digital asset that is tokenized as a non-fungible token (NFT). One or more electronic devices tokenize the digital asset as the NFT on a blockchain that stores the restriction how the sound of the digital asset plays to the non-owners of the NFT.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at an electronic device and from a user, a restriction that restricts how sound of a digital asset plays to non-owners of the digital asset that is tokenized as a non-fungible token (NFT);
tokenizing, with one or more electronic devices, the digital asset as the NFT on a blockchain that stores the restriction how the sound of the digital asset plays to the non-owners of the NFT; and
executing the restriction on the blockchain to play the sound of the digital asset as one of mono sound or stereo sound to the non-owners of the NFT but playing the sound of the digital asset as binaural sound to owners of the NFT.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
executing the restriction on the blockchain to play video of the digital asset with two-dimensional (2D) images to the non-owners of the NFT while prohibiting the video of the digital asset from playing with three-dimensional (3D) images to the non-owners of the NFT.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
executing the restriction on the blockchain to play the sound of the digital asset processed with head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) in response to determining a person is the owner of the NFT.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving, at the electronic device and from the user, a single click on a graphical representation; and
spatializing the sound of the digital asset into the binaural sound in response to receiving the single click on the graphical representation.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving, at the electronic device and from the user, a single click on a graphical representation; and
tokenizing the digital asset into the NFT on the blockchain in response to receiving the single click on the graphical representation.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
tokenizing, with the one or more electronic devices, the digital asset as the NFT on the blockchain that stores a restriction that prohibits playing of a video of the digital asset to the non-owners of the NFT as an augmented reality (AR) image or a virtual reality (VR) image.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
tokenizing, with the one or more electronic devices, the digital asset as the NFT on the blockchain that stores a restriction that restricts the non-owners of the NFT from viewing the NFT as an augmented reality (AR) image or a virtual reality (VR) image.

8. A method comprising:
tokenizing, with one or more electronic devices, a video with sound as a non-fungible token (NFT) on a blockchain that stores a restriction that prevents non-owners of the NFT from hearing the sound of the video as binaural sound but allows the sound to play as the binaural sound to owners of the NFT.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the restriction allows the binaural sound processed with head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to play to the owners of the NFT.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the restriction prohibits playing of images in the video to the non-owners of the NFT as augmented reality (AR) images or virtual reality (VR) images.

11. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
playing, in response to executing the restriction, the video to the owners of the NFT with augmented reality (AR) images or virtual reality (VR) images; and
prohibiting, in response to executing the restriction, playing of the video with the AR images or the VR images to the non-owners of the NFT.

12. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
receiving, at an electronic device and from one of the non-owners of the NFT, a request to play the video with the sound; and
displaying, with the electronic device, a notice that describes the restriction that prevents the one of the non-owners of the NFT from hearing the sound of the video.

13. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
storing, in the blockchain, head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) that are processed with the sound in the video to provide the sound as the binaural sound played to the owners of the NFT.

14. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
storing, in a smart contract of the blockchain, the restriction as executable code that prevents the non-owners of the NFT from hearing the sound of the video as the binaural sound and viewing the video as augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR).

15. An electronic device comprising:
a user interface that receives, from a user, a restriction that restricts how sound of a tokenized digital asset plays to non-owners of the tokenized digital asset; and
a processor that executes code to tokenize the digital asset as a non-fungible token (NFT) on a blockchain that stores the restriction how the sound of the tokenized digital asset plays to the non-owners of the NFT,
wherein the user interface receives a single click from the user, and the processor executes the code to spatialize the sound of the tokenized digital asset into binaural sound in response to the user interface receiving the single click from the user.

16. The electronic device of claim 15 further comprising:
a display that displays a notice of the restriction in response to one of the non-owners requesting to play the tokenized digital asset.

17. The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the processor executes the code to store head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) on the blockchain, wherein the HRTFs are processed with the sound of the tokenized digital asset to generate the binaural sound played to owners of the NFT but not to the non-owners of the NFT.

18. The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the processor executes the code to tokenize the digital asset as the NFT on the blockchain that stores a restriction that executes to play images as augmented reality (AR) images or virtual reality (VR) images to owners of the NFT but prohibits playing of the images as the AR images or the VR images to the non-owners of the NFT.

Assignees

• Lyren Philip Scott

Inventors

• Lyren Philip Scott

Classifications

• G06F21/6209 Primary

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• G06Q20/0658

  e-cash managed locally · CPC title

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  e-cash details, e.g. blinded, divisible or detecting double spending · CPC title

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  Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal · CPC title

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  Hash functions, e.g. MD5, SHA, HMAC or f9 MAC · CPC title