CRYPTOGRAPHIC CURRENCY USER DIRECTORY DATA AND ENHANCED PEER-VERIFICATION LEDGER SYNTHESIS THROUGH MULTI-MODAL CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY-ADDRESS MAPPING

• US 20150310424A1
• Filed: 04/26/2014
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SS8 Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: SS8 Networks Incorporated
• Inventors: Myers, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,830,593 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2107 File encryption
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/223 based on the use of peer-to-peer networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3678 e-cash details, e.g. blinded, divisible or detecting double spending
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/401 Transaction verification
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3239 involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD

Abstract

Disclosed is a method and a system of cryptographic currency user directory data and enhanced peer-verification ledger synthesis through multi-modal cryptographic key-address mapping. The method determines that a propagation packet is a transaction of a cryptographic currency and extracts both an IP address and an input key-address to determine that the input key-address is under a suspected control of a user of interest. The method also determines that a relayed key-address communicated between a user of interest and a correspondent is under the suspected control of the user of interest, and/or that and/or an exhibited key-address of a web content is under the suspected control of the user of interest. The suspected control may be added to an enhanced ledger data and/or a user directory data. The system implementing one or more of the methods includes a set of collections servers, a directory server, and a wide area network.

Claims

1. A method, using a computer processor and a physical memory, comprising:

determining that a propagation packet is a transaction of a cryptographic currency propagating across a network for integration into a peer-verification ledger, the transaction comprising a value transfer of the cryptographic currency between an input key-address of an input of the transaction and an output key-address of an output of the transaction;

extracting an IP address from a TCP/IP layer of the propagation packet associated with the transaction;

extracting, from the transaction, a transactional hash associated with the input of the transaction, the transactional hash referencing a previous output of a previous transaction;

analyzing the peer-verification ledger to determine the input key-address associated with transactional hash referencing the previous output;

extracting the input key-address of the input of the transaction of the cryptographic currency propagating across the network for integration into the peer-verification ledger;

linking the IP address from the TCP/IP layer of the propagation packet with the input key-address of the input of the transaction; and

determining the input key-address of the input of the transaction is under a suspected control of a user of interest based upon an association between the user of interest and the IP address extracted from the TCP/IP layer of the propagation packet of the transaction.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

stratifying, within a user directory data, a designation of the suspected control of the input key-address of the input of the transaction into one or more designations of a provisional control and a designation of a verified control, based upon a predetermined certainty of the association between the user of interest and the IP address extracted from the TCP/IP layer of the propagation packet of the transaction.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the propagation packet is determined to be the transaction of the cryptographic currency based upon identification within an application layer protocol of the propagation packet at least one of:

a magic number associated with a specific cryptographic currency, the magic number located in a header field of the application layer protocol;

a byte size of the propagation packet; and

a hash format associated with the specific cryptographic currency.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining that a point-to-point packet relayed between the user of interest and a correspondent of the user of interest is a key-bearing communication comprising a relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication,

wherein the key-bearing communication is at least one of an email, a chat note, a social media message, a text message, and a voice call;

extracting the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication from the key-bearing communication;

determining that the user directory data includes the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication;

when the user directory data does not include the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication, creating a new entry for the relayed key-address within the user directory data; and

designating, within the user directory data, the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication as under the suspected control of the user of interest.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

stratifying, within the user directory data, the designation of the suspected control of the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication into one or more designations of the provisional control and the designation of the verified control, based upon a predetermined certainty of the association between the user of interest and at least one of an IP address of the key-bearing communication extracted from the TCP/IP layer of the peer-to-peer packet and an online identity associated with a transmission of the key-bearing communication.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the point-to-point packet is identified as associated with the key-bearing communication based on at least one of a length of a character string of the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication, a leading character of the character string of the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication, and the character string of the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication being a base-58 alpha-numeric format.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining that a web content comprises a key-bearing content having an exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content,

wherein the key-bearing content is at least one of a markup language page, a forum post, an online cryptographic key directory entry, and a social media data;

using a web-scraper, extracting the exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content from the key-bearing content;

designating, within the user directory data, the exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content as under the suspected control of the user of interest based upon an association between the online identity responsible for creating the key-bearing content and the user of interest.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

consolidating a set of key-addresses within a control radius of the verified control of the user of interest into a crypto bank profile corresponding to the user of interest.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

verifying that the transaction has been incorporated into at least one of a forming unit of the peer-verification ledger and a confirmed unit of the peer-verification ledger,

wherein a majority of a set of prepopulated key-address within the user directory data is derived from a set of previous transactions of the peer-verification ledger.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

when a first key-address of a specific stratum of the provisional control of the user of interest and a second key-address of an unknown control are both used as the input of the transaction, designating, within the user directory data, the second key-address of the input of the transaction as under the specific stratum of the provisional control of the user of interest; and

when a third key-address under a first stratum of provisional control of the user of interest and a fourth key-address under a second stratum of provisional control of the user of interest are both used as the input of the transaction, elevating the designation of the third key-address and the designation of the fourth key-address to be under at least one of the verified control and a third stratum of provisional control closer in certainty to the verified control as measured by the control radius.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining, when the transaction has a first key-address of the output of the transaction and a second key-address of the output of the transaction, that the first key-address of the output of the transaction is a change key-address returning a portion of the value transfer of the transaction back to the user of interest associated with the input key-address of the input of the transaction,

wherein the first key-address of the output of the transaction is identified as the change key-address by at least one of;

determining that the transfer of the value to the second key-address of the output of the transaction is an approximate integer multiple of a unit of the cryptographic currency, and

determining, when the second key-address of the output of the transaction is used as a next key-address of a new input of a later transaction, that traveling a distance between a geographic origin of the transaction and the later transaction would be physically impracticable for a suspected controller of both the second key-address of the output of the transaction and the next key-address of the new input of the later transaction within an elapse time of the transaction and the later transaction; and

designating, within the user directory data, the change key-address as under the suspected control of the user of interest.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

wherein the peer-verification ledger is a block chain data,

wherein the forming unit is a forming block of the block chain data and the confirmed unit is a confirmed block of the block chain data,

wherein the cryptographic currency is a bitcoin currency, and

wherein the hash format is a string of twenty-seven to thirty-four base-58 alphanumeric characters beginning with at least one of a numeral “

1” and

a numeral “

3”

.

13. A method, using a computer processor and physical memory, comprising:

determining that a propagation packet is a transaction of a cryptographic currency propagating across a network for integration into a peer-verification ledger, the transaction comprising a value transfer of the cryptographic currency between an input key-address of an input of the transaction and an output key-address of an output of the transaction;

extracting an IP address from a TCP/IP layer of the propagation packet associated with the transaction;

extracting, from the transaction, a transactional hash associated with the input of the transaction, the transactional hash referencing a previous output of a previous transaction;

analyzing the peer-verification ledger to determine the input key-address associated with the transactional hash referencing the previous output;

extracting the input key-address of the input of the transaction of the cryptographic currency propagating across the network for integration into the peer-verification ledger;

linking the IP address from the TCP/IP layer of the propagation packet with the input key-address of the input of the transaction; and

designating, within an enhanced ledger data, the input key-address of the input of the transaction as under a suspected control of a user of interest based upon an association between the user of interest and the IP address extracted from the TCP/IP layer of the propagation packet of the transaction.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

determining that a point-to-point packet relayed between the user of interest and a correspondent of the user of interest is a key-bearing communication comprising a relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication,

wherein the key-bearing communication is at least one of an email, a chat note, a social media message, a text message, and a voice call;

extracting the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication from the key-bearing communication; and

designating, within the enhanced ledger data, the relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication as under the suspected control of the user of interest.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining that a web content comprises a key-bearing content having an exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content,

wherein the key-bearing content is at least one of a markup language page, a forum post, an online cryptographic key directory entry, and a social media data;

using a web-scraper, extracting the exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content from the key-bearing content;

designating, within the enhanced ledger data, the exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content as under the suspected control of the user of interest based upon an association between the online identity responsible for creating the key-bearing content and the user of interest.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

stratifying, within the enhanced ledger data, a designation of the suspected control into one or more designations of a provisional control and a designation of a verified control, based upon a predetermined certainty of an association giving rise to the designation of the suspected control,

wherein a data set of the enhanced ledger data comprising a set of previously used key-addresses and a set of transactions is updated in substantially real-time by referencing an active copy of the peer-verification ledger, the active copy of the peer-verification ledger being the same as is present in a cryptographic mining operation of the cryptographic currency.

17. A system comprising:

a collection server associated with an access point and having a computer processor and physical memory, to intercept an internet protocol packet determined by the collection server to have an association with at least one of a transaction of a cryptographic currency propagating across a network for integration into a peer-verification ledger and a key-bearing communication between a user of interest and a correspondent of the user of interest,

an IP extraction module to extract an IP address from a TCP/IP layer of the propagation packet associated with at least one of the transaction and the key-bearing communication,

a key extraction module to extract at least one of a transactional hash of an input of the transaction of the cryptographic currency propagating across the network for integration into the peer-verification ledger and a relayed key-address of the key-bearing communication between the user of interest and the correspondent of the user of interest,

the network,

a cryptocurrency network, and

a directory server, to house at least one of a user directory data, an enhanced ledger data and a ledger copy data.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

a cryptographic node, to house an active copy of the peer-verification ledger as present in a cryptographic mining operation, and

a control verification module, to stratify a designation of a suspected control into one or more designations of a provisional control and a designation of a verified control, based upon a predetermined certainty of the association giving rise to the designation of the suspected control.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising:

the directory server, to;

determine that a web content comprises a key-bearing content having an exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content,

wherein the key-bearing content is at least one of a markup language page, a forum post, an online cryptographic key directory entry, and a social media data,

using a web-scraper, extract the exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content from the key-bearing content,

designate, within the user directory data, the exhibited key-address of the key-bearing content as under the suspected control of the user of interest based upon an association between the online identity responsible for creating the key-bearing content and the user of interest,

consolidate a set of key-addresses within a control radius of the verified control of the user of interest into a crypto bank profile corresponding to the user of interest,

verify that the transaction has been incorporated into at least one of a forming unit of the peer-verification ledger and a confirmed unit of the peer-verification ledger,

wherein a majority of a set of prepopulated key-address within the user directory data is derived from a set of previous transactions of the peer-verification ledger,

when a first key-address of a specific stratum of the provisional control of the user of interest and a second key-address of an unknown control are both used as the input of the transaction, designate, within the user directory data, the second key-address of the input of the transaction as under the specific stratum of the provisional control of the user of interest, and

when a third key-address under a first stratum of provisional control of the user of interest and a fourth key-address under a second stratum of provisional control of the user of interest are both used as the input of the transaction, elevate the designation of the third key-address and the designation of the fourth key-address to be under at least one of the verified control and a third stratum of provisional control closer in certainty to the verified control as measured by the control radius.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising:

the directory server, to;

determine, when the transaction has a first key-address of an output of the transaction and a second key-address of the output of the transaction, that the first key-address of the output of the transaction is a change key-address returning a portion of a value transfer of the transaction back to the user of interest associated with an input key-address of the input of the transaction,

wherein the first key-address of the output of the transaction is identified as the change key-address by at least one of;

determining that the transfer of the value to the second key-address of the output of the transaction is an approximate integer multiple of a unit of the cryptographic currency, and

determining, when the second key-address of the output of the transaction is used as a next key-address of a new input of a later transaction, that traveling a distance between a geographic origin of the transaction and the later transaction would be physically impracticable for a suspected controller of both the second key-address of the output of the transaction and the next key-address of the new input of the later transaction within an elapse time of the transaction and the later transaction; and

designate, within the user directory data, the change key-address as under the suspected control of the user of interest,

wherein the peer-verification ledger is a block chain data,

wherein the forming unit is a forming block of the block chain data and the confirmed unit is a confirmed block of the block chain data,

wherein the cryptographic currency is a bitcoin currency, and

wherein a hash format of the cryptographic currency is a string of twenty-seven to thirty-four base-58 alphanumeric characters beginning with at least one of a numeral “

1” and

a numeral “

3”

.