Efficient computer-based indexing via digital tokens, systems, methods, and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11977530-B2
Application number	US-202217971244-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2022
Priority date	Sep 8, 2022
Publication date	May 7, 2024
Grant date	May 7, 2024

Abstract

Systems, apparatus, and methods of managing the lifecycle of a digital token are described. In an example, while the digital token is being generated, the digital token or the underlying digital asset can be compared to other digital tokens and/or digital assets to determine similarity thereto. Based on the similarity, a program code interface (e.g., smart contract, an application programming interface—API, RPC, etc.) can be determined and an API call can be made to execute a program code. The execution can indicate whether the digital token creation process can be completed. If so, the digital token is recorded. Thereafter, its use or the use of the underlying digital asset can be monitored, whereby this monitoring can apply similarity processing. If a use thereof is determined or if a use of a similar digital token or similar digital asset is determined, notifications can be generated and sent.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A digital token management system comprising:
a digital token database storing indexed information related to digital tokens including a set of distinguishing features of the digital tokens, wherein digital tokens are at least partially indexed by the distinguishing features;
at least one computer readable memory storing digital token management software instructions; and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one computer readable memory and the digital token database, and that performs the following operations upon execution of the digital token management software instructions:
receiving a test digital token and storing digital assets related to the test digital token in the at least one computer readable memory;
generating a set of token distinguishing features via execution of a set of recognition algorithm implementations on the digital assets of the test digital token;
obtaining a token result set via querying the digital token database based on the set of token distinguishing features;
deriving at least one token similarity score based on the token result set and the set of distinguishing features;
determining a smart contract interface to invoke from a plurality of smart contract interfaces, the smart contract interface associated with the test digital token and associated with a notarized ledger; and
invoking the smart contract interface based on the at least one token similarity score.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the digital token database comprises at least in part one of the following: a cloud database, a notarized ledger, a blockchain, a hash graph, a server, and a distributed file system.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of recognition algorithm implementations comprise implementations of one or more of the following: image recognition algorithms, audio recognition algorithms, video recognition algorithms, data recognition algorithms, or edge detection algorithm.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of token distinguishing features comprises features related to at least two different modalities.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the set of token distinguishing features comprises features related to at least three different modalities.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of token distinguishing features comprises at least one of the following: a time, an absolute time, a relative time, a date, a location, a position, an orientation, a user attribute, an owner attributes, or an object property.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the token result set comprises zero digital tokens.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the at least one token similarity score represents there are no digital tokens similar to the test digital token in the digital token database.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one token similarity score comprises at least one of the following: a Euclidean value, a Hamming value, a multi-valued score, a single value score, an average, a standard deviation, a confidence level, or a p-value.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the test digital token comprises a non-fungible token.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the test digital token is a member of a digital token set.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the digital token set comprises a limited-edition token set.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the test digital token comprises a collectible digital token.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the test digital token comprises a utility-based digital token.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the smart contract interface invokes at least one of the following notarized ledger actions: create a new token based on the test digital token, deleted the test digital token, trade the test digital token, sell the test digital token, buy the test digital token, publish the test digital token, authenticate the test digital token, validate the test digital token, store the test digital token, pay a royalty associated with the test digital token, copy the test digital token, move the test digital token, modify the test digital token, or secure the test digital token.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notarized ledger includes at least one of the following: a blockchain, a hash graph, a private ledger, a public ledger, a semi-public ledger, or a centralized ledger.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the test digital token represents at least one of the following: a game object, a healthcare object, an eSports object, a real-world object, a physical object, a work of art, a publication, a toy, a right, or a property.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include indexing the test digital token in the digital token database based on the set of distinguishing features.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the operations further including at least one of the following: monitoring the test digital token, inventorying digital tokens including the test digital token, generating alerts related to test digital token, securing the test digital token, logging activities associated with the test digital token, recovering the test digital token, and reporting on the test digital token.

20. The system of claim 1 , wherein operations further include at least one of the following: invalidating the test digital token, or restricting creation of a new digital token based on the test digital token.

Assignees

• Nant Holdings Ip Llc
• Nant Holdings IP

Inventors

• Soon-Shiong Patrick
• Wiacek John
• Witchey Nicholas J
• Fyfe Jake

Classifications

• G06F16/22 Primary

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures · CPC title

• G06F16/24

  Querying · CPC title

• G06F16/41 Primary

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures · CPC title

• G06F16/43

  Querying · CPC title