Patent Application
20240428305
The present disclosure relates to a method of providing a service for generating a channel between a review non-fungible token (NFT) and a value-chain using a supply chain management (SCM) code. More particularly, the present disclosure is related to a technology for providing various types of information through review NFTs of third consumers by generating a channel between value-chains of e-commerce or consignment sales transaction through the review NFTs produced by consumers and newly generating and sharing information necessary for transaction to provide various access channels to price information and products of sellers to the third consumers.
Recently, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been in the spotlight because an NFT may prove a transaction of ownership on networks connected through the Internet. An NFT utilizes a blockchain technology, but unlike existing virtual assets, has a characteristic of being unable to be exchanged by assigning separate, unique recognition values to digital assets. Since an NFT is based on blockchain, all related information such as ownership and sales history is stored on the blockchain, and therefore originality can be proven, and because data such as owner information and transaction history cannot be forged or falsified, integrity can be secured.
However, NFTs are being used only at a technically low level in that NFTs are used for the purpose of proof of original ownership of digital content. Accordingly, technology development that enables NFTs to be actively utilized in various transaction situations is required.
A blockchain platform using review NFT data as a mediator is composed of numerous decentralized participants. Economic activity occurs between third consumers and sellers, and a reward is returned to a review NFT creator who acts as a mediator for this activity. The reward is made from sellers to consumers (reviewers), which means a transfer of wealth and should be based on actual transactions. In addition, a production volume of the review NFTs may be determined in proportion to the size of the reward, which may result in the generation of review data for products that have not actually been used. Such information may cause errors even in simple evaluations of good/bad, which does not provide information suitable for decision-making by sellers and third consumers, and may destroy the trust in this transaction method itself. Therefore, separate from the oracle issue, improvements are required to determine whether the review data is based on actual use by actual buyers.
The present disclosure provides a method of providing a service for generating a channel between a review non-fungible token (NFT) and a value-chain using a supply chain management (SCM) code. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a technology for providing various types of information through review NFTs of third consumers by generating a channel between value-chains of e-commerce or consignment sales transactions through the review NFTs produced by consumers and newly generating and sharing information necessary for transactions to provide various access channels to price information and products of sellers to the third consumers.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of providing a service for generating a channel between a review non-fungible token (NFT) and a value-chain using a supply chain management (SCM) code, which is performed by a computing device, includes: managing, by a platform server, a transaction situation between a seller and a consumer with a management information system; specifying, by the platform server, a transaction fact and transaction item of the consumer when a purchase by the consumer is confirmed; generating, by the platform server, an SCM code for the specified item and providing the generated SCM code to the consumer; and generating, by the platform server, a channel of a review NFT generated by the consumer using the SCM code and a third consumer.
The managing, by the platform server, of the transaction situation between the seller and the consumer with the management information system may include: requesting and receiving order payment information of a customer to and from an external platform; and confirming a transaction between the seller and the consumer based on the received order payment information.
The managing, by the platform server, of the transaction situation between the seller and the consumer with the management information system may include: collecting receipt information of the consumer by the platform server; requesting sales information to the seller based on the collected receipt information; and managing the transaction situation based on the received sales information.
The method may further include, after the generating of the channel of the review NFT and the third consumer, performing a transaction between the third consumer and the seller on a blockchain node of the review NFT.
The performing of the transaction between the third consumer and the seller on the blockchain node of the review NFT may include verifying the transaction by a smart contract on the blockchain node of the review NFT.
The method may further include blocking, by the platform server, the generated channel when a transaction corresponding to the generated review NFT is canceled.
According to a method of providing a service for generating a channel between a review non-fungible token (NFT) and a value-chain using a supply chain management (SCM) code according to the present disclosure, by newly generating and sharing information necessary for a transaction to provide various access channels to price information and products of a seller to a third consumer, it is possible to provide various types of information using the review NFT of the third consumer as a mediator. In particular, by proving that the review NFT is data based on actual purchase and use, it is possible to provide reliable information on products to the third consumer and allow the seller to understand specific information on the utility of the consumer according to the consumption of his/her products.
According to the present disclosure, since various variables such as price information of a product, whether a product is in stock, and whether a product can be sold according to seasonal influence can occur due to a difference between a purchase time of a reviewer and a purchase time of a third consumer, to prevent the utility of the review NFT data from decreasing due to information mismatch between a seller and a third-party consumer, it is possible to provide real-time changed information through the channel between the review NFT and the value-chain through a platform that contains information on a separate seller or a plurality of sellers from a blockchain platform. In addition, in the case of the same product+single seller (ex., franchise), it is possible to provide various product portfolios of a seller to assist a consumer with purchase decision-making.
According to the present disclosure, in order to notify of sales promotion information in a timely manner and quickly provide information on temporary sales promotions performed by a seller to a plurality of third consumers, by displaying the information on the seller's promotions inside the NFT or outside the NFT through a social networking service (SNS), it is possible to smoothly perform the promotion.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily practice the present disclosure. However, the present disclosure may be implemented in various different forms and is not limited to exemplary embodiments described herein.
In this specification, a non-fungible token (NFT) is a digital asset with scarcity. Since the NFT is based on blockchain, all related information such as ownership and sales history is stored on the blockchain, and therefore originality can be proven, and because data such as owner information and transaction history cannot be forged or falsified, integrity can be secured.
Since metadata and information of digital assets are distributed and stored in participating nodes through a blockchain network, forgery and falsification are impossible, and all transaction histories from an initial issuer to a current owner can be traced.
In the present disclosure, a review NFT is directly generated by a consumer, and induces the consumer to directly participate in sales based on information generated after consumption, rather than simply consuming products.
The configuration of the present disclosure is specifically reviewed and described through the drawings below.
The review NFT system 100 may provide an environment that automatically connects program codes and appropriate software and hardware execution environments required for executing the program codes. That is, when requirements for hardware that may execute a program code requested by a user are set, the review NFT system 100 may search for an optimal computer that satisfies the requirements among computers registered as nodes by the platform server 130 system and/or the blockchain network 110 system and connect the retrieved computer to the program codes. In this way, a procedure in which the program codes are connected to nodes on the blockchain network 110 system may be referred to as a “linking procedure,” and the blockchain network 110 system that provides such an environment may be referred to as a “linked cloud.” In addition, the containerized program code can be downloaded to the computer and immediately executed so that a user can easily receive the execution result.
The social network 120 may be a public network that a user can generally access through a communication network such as the Internet for easy access to the user's transaction target goods and services. The user may search for information on the transaction target goods and services disclosed through the social network 120, and when the user intends to transact the transaction target goods and services, the review NFT system 100 may load an ordering system that allows the user to transact the transaction target goods and services through the platform server 130, and when the user intends to confirm the review NFT for the transaction target goods and services of interest, the review NFT system 100 may confirm the review NFT information on the blockchain network 110.
The review NFT may include NFT metadata and an NFT smart contract. The NFT metadata may store ownership information of review data of goods subject to consignment sales, object information related to characteristics of review data of the goods or services subject to consignment sales, URI information connected to a program code including worker node address information with which the review data of goods or services subject to consignment sales can be implemented, etc.
Meanwhile, NFT media data connected to the NFT metadata may be code data of the review data of goods or services subject to consignment sales, preprocessed data for artificial intelligence learning, or the like, which may be data stored in an external storage or an InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).
The NFT smart contract may receive the transaction including the NFT metadata information and mint review NFT of goods or services subject that includes a review data for the goods or services to consignment sales corresponding to the received transaction.
Meanwhile, when the transaction is finally verified at a blockchain consensus node, the NFT minted on the NFT smart contract may serve as a persistent identifier to which the blockchain network address is connected.
The platform server 130 may include all of the components for searching for a node having an execution environment for executing a program code on the blockchain network 110 and enabling the program code to be executed on the node, and is not limited to a specific example.
In the present disclosure, the channel may be referred to as a distribution channel because it represents the distribution process of a transaction item on a blockchain network 110. When a channel is formed between different entities, one entity connected to the channel may access another entity. The channel may provide information about another entity connected to the channel (e.g., review data included in a review NFT) to a specific entity (e.g., a third consumer node 112), or may be used by a specific entity (e.g., a platform server 130) to track the distribution process represented by the channel.
Additionally or alternatively, the channel may be a channel between an NFT and a seller node 140, or a channel between an NFT and a third consumer node 112. A channel between a review NFT 113 and a third consumer 112 may be generated, and the generation and control of the channel may be executed by the platform server 130. A consumer node on the blockchain network 110 may transact a product (goods and services subject to transaction) from a seller node 140 or a manufacturer/distributor node 150 and mint the review for the transaction to the blockchain network 110 in the form of the review NFT.
The seller node 140 may sell the goods or services subject to transaction. The manufacturer/distributor node 150 may provide the goods or services subject to transaction to a seller.
In the present disclosure, the seller node 140, the manufacturer/distributor node 150, the consumer node 111 to mint the review NFT, and the third consumer node 112 each have a unique code for identifying the node, and the corresponding code may be managed by a supply chain management (SCM) system of the platform server 130.
In addition, the seller node 140 may transmit a plurality of pieces of product information to be sold based on its own code to a consumer node. The plurality of pieces of product information may each include the corresponding SCM code, and the SCM code may be managed by the SCM system of the platform server 130.
The manufacturer/distributor node 150 may transmit a plurality of pieces of product information to be supplied based on its own code to the seller node. Alternatively, the manufacturer/distributor node 150 may directly transmit the plurality of pieces of product information to the consumer node, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. The plurality of pieces of product information may each include the corresponding SCM code, and the SCM code may be managed by the SCM system of the platform server 130.
The blockchain network 110 connects the seller node 140, the consumer node 111, and the NFT and the third consumer 112 to each other. Furthermore, the blockchain network 110 is configured to generate the NFT by the third consumer 112 so that each node of the blockchain may perform the role of the platform rather than a centralized platform. The purchase loss occurring by passing through the NFT may be offset by each consumer securing a profit through the generation of the NFT.
Specifically, the platform server 130 manages the transaction situation between the seller and the consumer with the management information system on the platform server 130. According to various embodiments, the managing the transaction situation may include an operation of requesting and receiving order payment information of a customer to and from an external platform and confirming a transaction between the seller and the consumer based on the received order payment information. Then, the platform server 130 may obtain the transaction target product, transaction price, payment method, transaction occurrence time, and other transaction-related information for the transaction that occurred between the seller node and the consumer node for the confirmed transaction. In some embodiments, the transaction price and payment method may be a token (e.g., cryptocurrency) that can be transferred on the blockchain network 110.
According to various embodiments, the management may include an operation of collecting receipt information of a consumer by the platform server, requesting sales information to a seller based on the collected receipt information, and managing a transaction situation based on the received sales information. The said sales information may be the transaction-related information. The external platform may include, but is not limited to, a card company server, a payment agency server, etc.
In various embodiments, the platform server 130 specifies a transaction fact and transaction item of a consumer when a purchase by the consumer node 111 is confirmed or completed. The platform server 130 generates an SCM code for the specified item and provides the generated SCM code to the consumer. The consumer node 111 may issue a review NFT for a specific item, i.e., a transaction item, on the blockchain network 110 based on the SCM code.
In certain embodiments, the consumer node 111 initiates a transaction requesting the minting of the review NFT 113. This transaction includes a request for issuance of the review NFT 113 and the user input data to be included in the review NFT 113. The user input data includes the SCM code for the specific item. The transaction is signed using a private key of consumer node 111. This signature verifies that the transaction originates from the user and ensures the integrity and authenticity of the transaction. The consumer node 111 propagates the signed transaction to the blockchain network 110. The blockchain network 110 processes the signed transaction to issue the review NFT 113. Specifically, the blockchain network 110 verifies the transaction, which involves checking the validity of the user's digital signature, the appropriateness of the smart contract call, and whether the user has the authority to issue the NFT (e.g., sufficient funds or tokens). If the verification is successful, the blockchain network 110 executes the NFT smart contract. Upon execution of the NFT smart contract, the following series of processes occur: i) generating the review NFT 113, ii) storing the metadata of the review NFT 113, and iii) assigning ownership of the review NFT 113. Specifically, the NFT smart contract generates the review NFT 113 with a unique ID. The review NFT 113 includes the NFT metadata described above. The object information related to the characteristics of the review data of the goods or services that are the subject of the consignment sale included in the NFT metadata includes the SCM code corresponding to a specific transaction item such as the goods or services.
The metadata of the generated review NFT 113 can either be stored on the blockchain or in a decentralized storage outside the blockchain (e.g., IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)). In the latter case, only the storage location (e.g., reference link) of the decentralized storage for accessing the metadata is stored on the blockchain. The generated NFT is then assigned to the address of consumer node 111 that requested the issuance.
The issuance process of the review NFT 113 is recorded on the blockchain. Specifically, the blockchain network 110 generates a block that includes the verified transaction, which is then added to the existing blockchain and propagated across the blockchain network 110. Each node in the network receives this new block and appends it to its own copy of the blockchain. As a result, participants in the blockchain network 110 share the knowledge of the issuance of the review NFT 113.
The platform server 130 generates a channel of the review NFT generated by the consumer using the SCM code and the third secondary consumer node 112. The platform server 130 is also a node participating in the blockchain network 110 and thus, can share the fact of issuing the review NFT through the blockchain network 110. When receiving the fact of issuing the review NFT, the platform server 130 may create a channel between the review NFT 113 and the third consumer node 112. The third consumer node 112 may access the review NFT through the channel between the third secondary consumer node 112 and the review NFT 113.
The transaction between the third secondary consumer node 112 and the seller node 140 may be performed on the blockchain node of the review NFT. The seller for the third consumer may correspond to the consumer node 111. Specifically, the consumer node 111 may be treated as a seller for the third consumer in terms of generating a review NFT and selling the review data of the review NFT to induce an offline transaction between the third consumer and the seller of the first seller node 140. The seller for the third consumer, i.e., the consumer node 111, does not actually correspond to an offline product wholesaler/retailer. That is, the consumer node 111 may be a secondary seller performed after the primary sale to generate the review NFT. The secondary seller, the consumer node 111, may be a transaction information seller who does not sell products offline or a secondary seller who sells actual products.
For example, the third consumer corresponding to the third consumer node 112 in
This transaction may be verified by a smart contract on the blockchain node of the review NFT. Specifically, the blockchain network 110 verifies a transaction for a transaction between a third consumer node 112 and a seller node 140. This is a process of verifying whether the digital signature of the transaction requester (e.g., the third consumer node 112) for the transaction is valid and whether the user has the authority to transact (e.g., sufficient funds or tokens).
The content of the specific channel generation will be described below. For clarity of explanation, the third consumer node 112 is referred to as a secondary consumer node, and the initial consumer node 111 is referred to as a secondary seller node. Another third consumer node among the third consumer nodes 112 for the secondary seller node 111 is referred to as a secondary third-party consumer node 114. The platform server 130, where a transaction between the secondary consumer node 112 and the secondary seller node 111 may occur, is referred to as a specific platform server 130.
The platform server 130 may confirm an order payment situation occurring in the transaction between the secondary seller node 111 and the secondary consumer node 112 through a management information system (MIS).
When the platform server 130 confirms that the purchase of the transaction target product sold by the secondary seller node 111 is confirmed at the secondary consumer node 112, the platform server 130 confirms the transaction fact and specifies the transaction item.
The platform server 130 generates an SCM code for the specified item and provides the generated SCM code to the secondary consumer node 112.
The secondary consumer node 112 may generate the review NFT to include the SCM code. The review NFT 113 is used to generate the distribution channel between the third consumer 114 and the secondary seller node 111. The generated channel is controlled by the platform server 130.
When the platform server 132 cannot confirm the order payment situation occurring in the transaction between the secondary seller node 111 and the secondary consumer node 112, the platform server 132 may request and receive the order payment information of the consumer to confirm the transaction on the affiliate platform 131. Failure to confirm the order payment status occurs when the platform server 132 requests order payment information or transaction information from the secondary seller node 111 or secondary consumer node 112, but fails to receive the information within a pre-specified time.
When the platform server 132 confirms that the purchase of the transaction target product sold by the secondary seller node 111 is confirmed at the secondary consumer node 112, the platform server 130 confirms the transaction fact and specifies the transaction item. If the platform server 132 requests order payment information or transaction information from the secondary seller node 111 or secondary consumer node 112 and receives the information within a pre-specified time, the transaction fact can be confirmed and the transaction item can be specified based on the received information.
The platform server 132 generates an SCM code for the specified item and provides the generated SCM code to the secondary consumer node 112.
The secondary consumer node 112 may generate the review NFT to include the SCM code. The review NFT is used to generate the distribution channel between the third consumer 114 and the secondary seller node 111. The generated channel is controlled by the platform server 132. The secondary consumer node 112 may issue a review NFT for a specific item, i.e., a transaction item, on the blockchain network 110 based on the SCM code. The creation of the review NFT and the channel creation have been described above with reference to
When the platform server 133 does not confirm the order payment status occurring in the transaction between the secondary seller node 111 and the secondary consumer node 112, the platform server 133 may directly receive the purchase information of the consumer from the secondary consumer node 112 and directly receive sales information from the secondary seller node 111.
The platform server 133 may request and receive the order payment information of the customer to confirm the transaction on the affiliate platform 131. The platform server 133 collects receipt information from the secondary consumer node 112 and requests sales information such as tax invoices and cash receipts from the secondary seller node 111. The platform server 133 generates an SCM code for the specified item and provides the generated SCM code to the secondary consumer node 112.
The secondary consumer node 112 may generate the review NFT to include the SCM code and generate the distribution channel between the third consumer 114 and the secondary seller node 111. The generated channel is controlled by the platform server 133. The secondary consumer node 112 may issue a review NFT for a specific item, i.e., a transaction item, on the blockchain network 110 based on the SCM code. The creation of the review NFT and the channel creation have been described above with reference to
The transaction between the secondary seller node 111 and the third consumer 114 is performed by the smart contract of the review NFT 113.
In this case, in the transaction between the reward secondary seller node 111 and the secondary third consumer node 114 due to the transaction verification on the blockchain platform (111 in
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The verification of the transaction between the secondary seller node 111 and the secondary third consumer node 114 is performed by the review NFT 113 blockchain node of the secondary consumer node 112.
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The platform server generates a channel between a plurality of sellers who provide a transaction target product having the same SCM code as an SCM code for a transaction target product of the review NFT and the review NFT.
The platform server provides information on the plurality of value-chains in which the channel is generated when the third consumer accesses the review NFT. According to an embodiment, providing the information on the value-chain provides information on products other than the transaction target product having the same SCM code provided by the plurality of sellers for which the channel is generated. According to another embodiment, providing the information on the value-chain provides the promotion information on the transaction target product having the same SCM code in the plurality of value-chains. Here, the value-chain may include at least one of a seller, a manufacturer, and a distributor.
The following is a detailed description of
In addition, the platform server 130 and 132 may provide the price information, the seller, and the product information together on the platform to prevent damage due to errors in the link information.
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For example, when a potential third consumer searches for a specific manufacturer or seller through the social network 120, the NFT review for the product of the corresponding seller is exposed in a layout.
In this case, as described above, whether to provide the promotion through the channel generated between the review NFT and the seller can be immediately confirmed through the review NFT.
The methods, operations or techniques of the present disclosure may be implemented by various means. For example, these techniques may be implemented in hardware, firmware, software, or a combination of these. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various exemplary logical blocks, modules, circuits, and algorithm steps described in connection with the disclosure herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both. To clearly describe this interchangeability of hardware and software, various exemplary components, blocks, modules, circuits, and steps have been generally described above in terms of their functionality. Whether such functions are implemented as hardware or software will depend upon the particular application and design requirements imposed on the overall system. Those skilled in the art may implement the described functionality in various ways for each particular application, but such implementations should not be construed as departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
In the hardware implementation, the processing units may be implemented within one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), processors, controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, electronic devices, other electronic units designed to perform the functions described in the present disclosure, a computer, or a combination thereof. In firmware and/or software implementation, the techniques may be implemented as instructions stored on computer-readable media such as a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), an electrically erasable PROM (EEPROM), a flash memory, a compact disc (CD), and a magnetic or optical data storage device. The instructions may be executable by one or more processors, and may allow the processor(s) to perform certain aspects of the functionality described in this disclosure.
When implemented in software, the techniques may be stored on a computer-readable medium as one or more instructions or code, or transmitted over the computer-readable media. The computer-readable media include both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transmission of a computer program from one location to another. The storage media may be any available media that may be accessed by a computer. As a non-limiting example, such computer-readable media may include a RAM, a ROM, an EEPROM, a CD-ROM or another optical disc storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or desired program codes in the form of instructions or data structures, and any other media that may be used for transporting or storing desired program codes in the form of instructions or data structures and may be accessed by a computer. In addition, any access is properly called a computer-readable medium.
A software module may reside in a RAM memory, a flash memory, a ROM memory, an EPROM memory, an EEPROM memory, registers, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium may be coupled to a processor such that the processor may read information from or write information on the storage medium. Alternatively, the storage medium may be integrated into the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside within an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may exist in a user terminal. Alternatively, the processor and the storage medium may exist as separate components in the user terminal.
In the embodiments described hereinabove, components and features of the present disclosure were combined with each other in a predetermined form. The respective components or features are to be considered selective unless separately explicitly mentioned. The respective components or features may be implemented in a form in which they are not combined with other components or features. In addition, some components and/or features may be combined with each other to configure the embodiment of the present disclosure. A sequence of operations described in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be changed. Some components or features of any embodiment may be included in another embodiment or be replaced by corresponding components or features of another embodiment. It is obvious that claims that do not have an explicitly referred relationship in the claims may be combined with each other to configure an embodiment or be included in new claims by amendment after application.
It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that the present disclosure may be embodied in other forms without departing from the technical spirit and essential features of the present disclosure. Accordingly, the above embodiments should be considered in all respects as illustrative rather than restrictive. The scope of the present disclosure should be determined by reasonable interpretation of the appended claims and all possible changes within the equivalent scope of the present disclosure.
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| 10-2022-0030349 | Mar 2022 | KR | national |
This application is a continuation of PCT Patent Application No. PCT/KR2023/003230, filed Mar. 9, 2023, entitled “METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE FOR GENERATING ROUTE BETWEEN REVIEW NFT USING SCM CODE AND VALUE-CHAIN,” which claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2022-0030349, filed Mar. 10, 2022. All sections of the aforementioned application(s) are incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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| Parent | PCT/KR2023/003230 | Mar 2023 | WO |
| Child | 18826491 | US |
