Patent Application
20210133713
The present application is based on, and claims priority from TAIWAN Application Serial No. 108139281 filed on Oct. 30, 2019, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to a right management system and a method thereof, and more particularly to an asset right management system based on blockchain and a method thereof.
In recent years, with the popularization and rapid development of e-commerce, various related applications have sprung up, and the token executed in a blockchain network is the most common application.
In general, an issuer of a token can sell the token to other users, and the user can use the service provided by the issuer based on the purchased token. At the beginning, various tokens are substantially similar, but different in the number only, and this type of tokens can be called a fungible or replaceable token and suitable for interchangeable assets, such as points or cash. However, the fungible token is not suitable for non-interchangeable assets, such as real estate or a collection, because these assets are unique and irreplaceable assets.
For this reason, some manufacturers have proposed non-fungible token technical solution. Each non-fungible token has a unique identification code and is permitted to have different attributes. Therefore, the non-fungible token can be applied to non-interchangeable assets. However, both of the fungible token and non-fungible token regard the ownership and use rights of assets as the same, and do not clearly distinguish between the use right and the ownership of the asset, so it is impossible to separately manage or transact the ownership or the use right of the asset by using the convention token. There are problems of inconvenience in asset rights management and income.
In summary, what is needed is to develop an improved technical solution to solve the conventional technical problem of inconvenience in rights management and income of the asset.
An objective of the present invention is to provide an asset right management system based on blockchain and a method thereof, to solve the conventional problems.
In order to achieve the objective, the present invention provides an asset right management system based on blockchain, and the asset right management system is applied to the blockchain network which is formed by a plurality of node hosts; the asset right management system includes an ownership issuing host and a use-right issuing host. The ownership issuing host is one of the plurality of node hosts and includes an initialization module and a generating module. The initialization module is configured to pre-deploy an asset smart contract of an asset in a blockchain network in initial, and the asset smart contract comprises at least one owner account and ownership-ratio information corresponding to the at least one owner account. The generating module is connected to the initialization module and configured to execute a token generating function of the asset smart contract; the token generating function generates at least one fungible ownership token based on the ownership-ratio information. The use-right issuing host is one of the plurality of node hosts, stores one of the at least one owner account, and includes an executing module, an issuing module, a transaction module, and a profit sharing module. The executing module is configured to execute a use-right issuing function of the asset smart contract, and the use-right issuing function transmits a use-right issuing request to request an owner to approve issue of a right to use the asset. The issuing module is connected to the executing module, and after the use-right issuing request is approved, the issuing module performs the use-right issuing function to generate at least one non-fungible use-right token based on the ownership token and permit to set a use-right transfer condition of the at least one use-right token, and request the owner to approve the use-right transfer condition; the use-right token comprises user information. The transaction module is connected to the issuing module, and after the use-right transfer condition is approved, the transaction module permits the asset smart contract to receive digital currency as proceeds, and transfer the use-right token from the asset smart contract to a buyer account, and set the user information to the buyer account. The profit sharing module is connected to the transaction module and configured to calculate a profit-sharing amount of each of the at least one owner account based on the proceeds and the ownership-ratio information, and transmit the digital currency, which are equivalent to all of the at least one profit-sharing amount, to the at least one owner account, respectively.
Furthermore, the present invention provides an asset right management method based on blockchain, and the asset right management method is applied to a blockchain network which is formed by a plurality of node hosts; the asset right management method includes the steps of: pre-deploying, by an ownership issuing host which is one of the plurality of node hosts, an asset smart contract of an asset in the blockchain network, wherein the asset smart contract comprises at least one owner account and ownership-ratio information corresponding to the at least one owner account; executing, by the ownership issuing host, a token generating function of the asset smart contract, to generate at least one fungible ownership token based on the ownership-ratio information; using one of the plurality of node hosts which stores one of the at least one owner account, as a use-right issuing host, wherein when the use-right issuing host executes a use-right issuing function of the asset smart contract, and the use-right issuing function transmits a use-right issuing requests to request at least one owner to approve the issue of right to use the asset; after approval of the use-right issuing request is obtained, performing a use-right issuing function to generate the at least one non-fungible use-right token based on the ownership token, permitting to set a use-right transfer condition of the use-right token, and requesting the at least one owner to approve the use-right transfer condition, wherein the use-right token comprises user information; when the approval of setting the use-right transfer condition is obtained, permitting the asset smart contract to receive digital currency as proceeds, and transferring the use-right token to a buyer account from the asset smart contract, and setting the user information to the buyer account; calculating a profit-sharing amount of each of the at least one owner account based on the proceeds and the ownership-ratio information, and transmitting the digital currency equivalent to all of the at least one profit-sharing amount, to the at least one owner account, respectively.
According to above-mentioned system and method of the present invention, the difference between the present invention and the conventional technology is that in the system and method of the present invention the asset smart contract of the asset is pre-deployed in the blockchain network, and the asset smart contract is executed to generate the fungible ownership token representing the ownership of the asset, and generate the non-fungible use-right token representing the right to use the asset, based on an ownership token, and when the asset smart contract receives the proceeds obtained through the transaction of the use-right token, the profit-sharing amount is calculated and transferred to each owner.
The aforementioned technical solution of the present invention can achieve technical effect of improving convenience in rights management and income of the asset.
The structure, operating principle and effects of the present invention will be described in detail by way of various embodiments which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
The following embodiments of the present invention are herein described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. These drawings show specific examples of the embodiments of the present invention. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. It is to be acknowledged that these embodiments are exemplary implementations and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention in any way. Further modifications to the disclosed embodiments, as well as other embodiments, are also included within the scope of the appended claims. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure is thorough and complete, and fully conveys the inventive concept to those skilled in the art. Regarding the drawings, the relative proportions and ratios of elements in the drawings may be exaggerated or diminished in size for the sake of clarity and convenience. Such arbitrary proportions are only illustrative and not limiting in any way. The same reference numbers are used in the drawings and description to refer to the same or like parts.
It is to be acknowledged that, although the terms ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’, and so on, may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another component. Thus, a first element discussed herein could be termed a second element without altering the description of the present disclosure. As used herein, the term “or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
It will be acknowledged that when an element or layer is referred to as being “on,” “connected to” or “coupled to” another element or layer, it can be directly on, connected or coupled to the other element or layer, or intervening elements or layers may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being “directly on,” “directly connected to” or “directly coupled to” another element or layer, there are no intervening elements or layers present.
In addition, unless explicitly described to the contrary, the word “comprise” and variations such as “comprises” or “comprising”, will be acknowledged to imply the inclusion of stated elements but not the exclusion of any other elements.
The terms defined in the present invention are described before the description of the asset right management system based on blockchain and method thereof of the present invention. The term “asset smart contract” of the present invention means the smart contract deployed in the blockchain network. In fact, the smart contract means a computer program for driving execution commands based on a predetermined condition and transferred information, and particularly, the smart contract is programmed with programming language, such as Solidity, Serpent, LLL, EtherScript, or Sidechain, and the smart contract can include different functions, events and parameter states; for example, in Ethereum environment, a smart contract is compiled to obtain binary codes and an application binary interface (ABI), so as to broadcast the smart contract to the blockchain network and wait for a miner or a validator to deploy the smart contract in the blockchain to obtain a corresponding address, which is also called a contract address; so far the smart contract is completely deployed through the blockchain transaction. Next, each node host can execute the smart contract based on the corresponding address, and change a state of the smart contract in the blockchain by different command and detect whether an event is triggered. Furthermore, the term “registry” means executing the function of the smart contract to store an address of another smart contract into the smart contract, for example, the address of another smart contract is stored in an array; that is, the smart contract is registered in another smart contract, so that the two smart contracts are associated with each other.
The asset right management system and the method thereof of the present invention are hereinafter described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Please refer to
The ownership issuing host 120 is one of the plurality of node hosts 110 and includes an initialization module 121 and a generating module 122. In initial, the initialization module 121 pre-deploys an asset smart contract of an asset in the blockchain network 100, the asset smart contract includes an owner account and ownership-ratio information corresponding to the owner account. In actual implementation, according to different functions, such as management of ownership, management of use right, right transfer, and so on, the asset smart contract can be implemented by different smart contracts which are bound with each other (for example, the address of the smart contract is registered to another smart contract), and one of the smart contracts can call a function of another of the smart contracts to interact.
The generating module 122 is connected to the initialization module 121 and configured to execute a token generating function of the asset smart contract; the token generating function can generate at least one corresponding and fungible ownership token based on the ownership-ratio information. In actual implementation, when the blockchain network 100 is based on an Ethereum blockchain architecture, the generation of the ownership token can be implemented by ERC20 standard. Furthermore, the ownership token can be transacted and transferred to other person (such as a buyer or other owner) through the blockchain; that is, the ownership token represents the ownership of the asset and can be transferred through the blockchain transaction. It is to be particularly noted that the token generating function can detect whether a generation condition has been satisfied already before the token generating function generates the ownership token, and the detection may be regarded as the verification of the validity of the ownership; when the generation condition is satisfied, the ownership token is permitted to generate; otherwise, the ownership token is not permitted to generate. In an embodiment, the generation condition includes approval of more than half of the asset owners and the approval of the authority related to the asset.
The use-right issuing host 130 is also one of the plurality of node hosts 110, and stores one of the at least one owner account. The use-right issuing host 130 includes an executing module 131, an issuing module 132, a transaction module 133, and a profit sharing module 134. The executing module 131 is configured to execute a use-right issuing function of the asset smart contract, to make the use-right issuing function transmit a use-right issuing request to request the at least one owner to approve the issue of the right to use the asset. The right to use the asset is also called the use right of the asset herein. In actual implementation, the way of transmitting the use-right issuing request can include transmission of the use-right issuing request to all of the at least one owner account or/and to a preset attorney account to request approval of issuing the right to use the asset. Furthermore, the condition of obtaining approval of the use-right issuing request can include that the amount of owner accounts approving to issue the use right satisfies a threshold value; for example, when the threshold value is set as 51%, it represents disapproval when the amount (or percentage) of owner accounts approving to issue the use right is lower than 51%, and it represents approval when the amount of owner accounts approve to issue the use right is higher than 51%. Besides the determination based on the threshold value, the use-right issuing request can be regarded as being approved after receipt of the approval information transmitted from the attorney account. The attorney account can be preset in the asset smart contract.
The issuing module 132 is connected to the executing module 131. After approval of the use-right issuing request is obtained, the issuing module 132 can execute a use-right issuing function to generate a corresponding and non-fungible use-right token (a non-fungible token) based on the ownership token, and permit to set a use-right transfer condition of the use-right token, and request the owner to approve the use-right transfer condition. The use-right token includes user information. In actual implementation, the use-right token can be implemented by ERC721 standard, that is, the use-right token executed in the blockchain network 100 can be created by the smart contract. It is to be particularly noted that, similar to the ownership token, the use-right token can be transacted and transferred to other person through the blockchain, and the difference between the use-right token and the ownership token is that the use-right token is unable to be divided but the ownership token is able to be divided. In fact, the transfer of the use-right token represents the transfer of the right to use the asset.
The transaction module 133 is connected to the issuing module 132. After the owner approves to set the use-right transfer condition, the transaction module 133 can permit the asset smart contract to receive the digital currency as proceeds, and transfer the use-right token from the asset smart contract to a buyer account, and set the user information to the buyer account. In actual implementation, in initial, the user information can be set as the address of the asset smart contract, and when the use right is first transferred, the usage information is changed from the address of the asset smart contract to the buyer account. In an embodiment, the address and the account are generated by hashing and encoding, for example, SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160 can be used for hashing, and the Base58Check is used for encoding.
The profit sharing module 134 is connected to the transaction module 133 and configured to calculate a profit-sharing amount of each of the at least one owner account based on the proceeds and the ownership-ratio information, and transmit the digital currency, equivalent to the profit-sharing amount, to the at least one owner account, respectively. For example, it is assumed that the digital currencies equivalent to the profit-sharing amount is 100 ETH, and the ownership ratio of one of the at least one owner account recorded in the ownership-ratio information is 2/100, so the profit sharing module 134 transmits 2 ETH to the one of the at least one owner account. Furthermore, the amount of the ownership token held by each of the owners also represent the ownership-ratio information, so the profit sharing module 134 can directly calculate the profit-sharing amount and share profile based on the amount of the ownership tokens held by the owners, so as to achieve the purpose of sharing profit based on the ownership.
Furthermore, the asset right management system of the present invention can include an authentication-side host 140 configured to receive identity information and detect whether the identity information exists in the user information of the use-right token, and if the identity information exists in the user information of the use-right token, the authentication-side host 140 permits the asset to be used or accessed; otherwise, the authentication-side host 140 prohibits the asset from being used or accessed. In actual implementation, the identity information and the user information can be hashed by SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160, and the string encoded by Base58Check such as “0x06012c . . . ” can also be called an address or an account.
It is to be particularly noted that, in actual implementation, the modules of the present invention can be implemented by various manners, including software, hardware or any combination thereof, for example, in an embodiment, the module can be implemented by software and hardware, or one of software and hardware. Furthermore, the present invention can be implemented fully or partly based on hardware, for example, one or more module of the system can be implemented by integrated circuit chip, system on chip (SoC), a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), or a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The concept of the present invention can be implemented by a system, a method and/or a computer program. The computer program can include computer-readable storage medium which records computer readable program instructions, and the processor can execute the computer readable program instructions to implement concepts of the present invention. The computer-readable storage medium can be a tangible apparatus for holding and storing the instructions executable of an instruction executing apparatus Computer-readable storage medium can be, but not limited to electronic storage apparatus, magnetic storage apparatus, optical storage apparatus, electromagnetic storage apparatus, semiconductor storage apparatus, or any appropriate combination thereof. More particularly, the computer-readable storage medium can include a hard disk, a RAM memory, a read-only-memory, a flash memory, an optical disk, a floppy disc or any appropriate combination thereof, but this exemplary list is not an exhaustive list. The computer-readable storage medium is not interpreted as the instantaneous signal such a radio wave or other freely propagating electromagnetic wave, or electromagnetic wave propagated through waveguide, or other transmission medium (such as electric signal transmitted through electric wire), or optical signal transmitted through fiber cable). Furthermore, the computer readable program instruction can be downloaded from the computer-readable storage medium to each calculating/processing apparatus, or downloaded through network, such as internet network, local area network, wide area network and/or wireless network, to external computer equipment or external storage apparatus. The network includes copper transmission cable, fiber transmission, wireless transmission, router, firewall, switch, hub and/or gateway. The network card or network interface of each calculating/processing apparatus can receive the computer readable program instructions from network, and forward the computer readable program instruction to store in computer-readable storage medium of each calculating/processing apparatus. The computer program instructions for executing the operation of the present invention can include source code or object code programmed by assembly language instructions, instruction-set-structure instructions, machine instructions, machine-related instructions, micro instructions, firmware instructions or any combination of one or more programming language. The programming language include object oriented programming language, such as Common Lisp, Python, C++, Objective-C, Smalltalk, Delphi, Java, Swift, C#, Perl, Ruby, and PHP, or regular procedural programming language such as C language or similar programming language. The computer readable program instruction can be fully or partially executed in a computer, or executed as independent software, or partially executed in the client-end computer and partially executed in a remote computer, or fully executed in a remote computer or a server.
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Furthermore, after the step 260, the asset right management method can further include a step 270 in which the authentication-side host 140 receives the identity information and detect whether the identity information exists in the user information of the use-right token; when the identity information exists in the user information of the use-right token, the authentication-side host 140 permits the asset to be used or accessed, and when the identity information does not exist in the user information of the use-right token, the authentication-side host 140 prohibits the asset from be used or accessed. In other words, the authentication-side host 140 can authenticate a user's identity, when the user information of the use-right token matches the user's identity, it represents that the user owns the right to use the asset, so the user is permitted to use the asset; otherwise, the user is prohibited from using the asset. The exemplary illustration will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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Next, the owner, who owns the owner account, can provide a use-right issuing request through the asset smart contract; the use-right issuing request can include at least one relevant parameter such as the number of issued use rights, a serial number or usage time range of each use right. In actual implementation, the use-right issuing host 130 can generate the use right issue window 350, as shown in
otherwise, it represents that the user does not have the right to use the artwork, and there may be concerns that the artwork has been stolen or misappropriated.
In an embodiment, the asset can be software and the overall process is much the same as that of the artwork, but the initial owner may be a software developer, a software issuing platform, or crowdfunders of a software development project, and the generated ownership token represents the ownership of the software, the generated use-right token represents the right to use the software; that is, the conventional software key is replaced by the use-right token, and obtaining the use-right token represents obtaining the right to use the software. The input block 351 shown in
When the asset is a vehicle such as a bicycle, a car or a motorcycle, the overall process is similar to the above-mentioned processes of artwork, software and real estate. In other words, any asset of which ownership and use right can be managed does not depart from the application field of the present invention. Multiple vehicles are taken as an example of the asset, multiple purchasers can club to purchase the multiple vehicles to provide rental services, for example, the multiple purchases club to set up a vehicle rental company. In this example, the vehicles are the asset and owned by a plurality of funders, and each funder owns a part of the ownership of each vehicle. In application of the present invention, each vehicle has an asset smart contract corresponding thereto, and the asset smart contract is permitted to execute to generate the corresponding and non-fungible use-right token, so as to issue the right to use the vehicle, or transact the fungible ownership token to sell the ownership of the vehicle. In actual implementation, the right to use each vehicle can be checked by linking to the blockchain network through an interne of things (IoT) mechanism, for example, it checks if the use-right token exists, if yes, the vehicle is permitted to use; otherwise, the vehicle is not permitted to use. The rental income of each vehicle can be distributed based on the holding ratio of the ownership tokens of the vehicle, that is, the profit can be shared to the funders.
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According to above-mentioned contents, the difference between the present invention and the conventional technology is that the asset smart contract of the asset can be pre-deployed on the blockchain network, and the asset smart contract is executed to generate the fungible ownership token representing the ownership of the asset and generate the non-fungible use-right token representing the right to use the asset based on the ownership token, and when the asset smart contract receives the proceeds obtained through the transaction of the use-right token, the asset smart contract can transfer the use-right token, and calculate and transmit the profit-sharing amount to the owner. The technical solution of the present invention can solve the conventional technology problem, and achieve the technical effect of improving convenience in rights management and income of the asset.
The present invention disclosed herein has been described by means of specific embodiments. However, numerous modifications, variations and enhancements can be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure set forth in the claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 108139281 | Oct 2019 | TW | national |
