SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SECURE PROVENANCE FOR DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION DATABASES

• US 20170005804A1
• Filed: 07/01/2016
• Published: 01/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nasdaq, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nasdaq, Inc.
• Inventors: ZINDER, Alex
• Granted Patent: US 10,097,356 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/219 Managing data history or versioning querying versioned data G06F16/2474; querying temporal data G06F16/2477
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3239 involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees

Abstract

An electronic resource tracking and storage computer system is provided that communicates with a distributed blockchain computing system that includes multiple computing nodes. The system includes a storage system, a transceiver, and a processing system. The storage system includes an resource repository and transaction repository that stores submitted blockchain transactions. A new resource issuance request is received, and a new resource is added to the resource repository in response. A new blockchain transaction is generated and published to the blockchain. In correspondence with publishing to the blockchain, the transaction storage is updated with information that makes up the blockchain transaction and some information that was not included as part of the blockchain transaction. The transaction storage is updated when the blockchain is determined to have validated the previously submitted blockchain transaction.

Claims

1. An electronic resource tracking and storage computer system that is configured to communicate with a distributed blockchain computing system that includes multiple computing nodes, each computing node storing a copy of the blockchain of the distributed blockchain computing system, the electronic resource tracking and storage computer system comprising:

a computer storage system configured to store;

a plurality of blockchain participant identifiers that are each associated with at least one private key, each of the plurality of blockchain participant identifiers associated with a corresponding one of plural different participants;

a resource repository that includes a plurality of blockchain resource identifiers that are each associated with at least one resource private key;

a transaction repository that includes a plurality of blockchain transaction identifiers that correspond to blockchain transactions submitted to the distributed blockchain computing system;

a transceiver configured to receive, from remote computing devices, electronic data messages that each include at least one data transaction request, where a first electronic data message of the electronic data messages includes a digital resource issuance request;

a processing system that includes at least one hardware processor coupled to the computer storage system and the transceiver, the processing system configured to;

receive, via the transceiver, the digital resource issuance request for issuance of a new resource for a first participant of the plural different participants;

create and add, to the resource repository, a new digital resource identifier and a corresponding private key for the new digital resource identifier;

generate a blockchain transaction that is to a participant identifier of the first participant, the generated blockchain transaction including the new blockchain resource identifier and a quantity value that corresponds to the new digital resource identifier;

sign the generated blockchain transaction with the private key that is associated with the new blockchain resource identifier;

publish the generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system for validation thereby;

in correspondence with publishing the generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system, create and add, to the transaction repository, a new transaction record that includes at least some of the data included in the generated blockchain transaction and additional transaction data that was not included in the generated blockchain transaction;

determine that the blockchain has validated the submitted blockchain transaction; and

responsive to the validation, update the new transaction record to indicate that the generated transaction has been validated by the blockchain.

2. The electronic resource tracking and storage computer system of claim 1, wherein the participant identifier is plural different participant identifiers with outputs for the generated transaction associated with respective ones of the plural different participant identifiers.

3. The electronic resource tracking and storage computer system of claim 1, wherein the processing system is further configured to:

begin a first process, during which participants submit data transaction requests to send or receive amounts of the resource that is associated with the new digital resource identifier;

close the first process to reception of data transaction requests from the participants;

generate a single blockchain transaction that includes inputs that correspond to source participant identifiers and outputs that correspond to destination participant identifiers; and

publish the single blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system for validation thereby.

4. The electronic resource tracking and storage computer system of claim 3, wherein the outputs also include source participant identifiers for unspent amounts of the resource.

5. The electronic resource tracking and storage computer system of claim 1, wherein the generated blockchain transaction includes a hash value of the additional transaction data.

6. The electronic resource tracking and storage computer system of claim 1, wherein the generated blockchain transaction is also signed by another private key.

7. The electronic resource tracking and storage computer system of claim 6, wherein the another private key is associated with the electronic resource tracking and storage computer system.

8. The electronic resource tracking and storage computer system of claim 1, wherein the processing system is further configured to:

receive a resource allocation request that identifies at least a second participant that will be allocated at least a portion of the quantity value that is an unspent output of the generated blockchain transaction; and

generate a second blockchain transaction that includes data from the output of the generated blockchain transaction as an input for the second blockchain transaction, and the portion of the quantity value and the a second participant identifier that is associated with the second participant as outputs for the second blockchain transaction;

publish the second generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system for validation thereby;

in correspondence with publishing the second generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system, create and add, to the transaction repository, a second transaction record that includes at least some of the data included in the second generated blockchain transaction and additional transaction data that was not included in the second generated blockchain transaction.

9. The electronic resource tracking and storage computer system of claim 1, further comprising:

the distributed blockchain computing system, where the blockchain is a private blockchain.

10. A method of electronic resource tracking using an electronic resource tracking and storage computer system that is configured to communicate with a distributed blockchain computing system that includes multiple computing nodes, each computing node storing a copy of the blockchain of the distributed blockchain computing system, the electronic resource tracking and storage computer system storing (a) a plurality of blockchain participant identifiers that are each associated with at least one private key, each of the plurality of blockchain participant identifiers associated with a corresponding one of plural different participants, (b) a resource repository that includes a plurality of blockchain resource identifiers that are each associated with at least one resource private key, and (c) a transaction repository that includes a plurality of blockchain transaction identifiers that correspond to blockchain transactions submitted to the distributed blockchain computing system, the method comprising:

receiving a resource issuance request for issuance of a new resource for a first participant of the plural different participants;

creating and adding, to the resource repository, a new digital resource identifier and a corresponding private key for the new digital resource identifier;

generating a blockchain transaction that is to a participant identifier of the first participant, the generated blockchain transaction including the new blockchain resource identifier and a quantity value that corresponds to the new digital resource identifier;

digitally signing the generated blockchain transaction with the private key that is associated with the new blockchain resource identifier;

publish the generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system for validation thereby;

in correspondence with publishing the generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system, creating and adding, to the transaction repository, a new transaction record that includes at least some of the data included in the generated blockchain transaction and additional transaction data that was not included in the generated blockchain transaction;

determining that the blockchain has validated the submitted blockchain transaction; and

responsive to the validation, updating the new transaction record to indicate that the generated transaction has been validated by the blockchain.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

beginning a first process, during which participants submit data transaction requests to send or receive amounts of the resource that is associated with the new digital resource identifier;

closing the first process to reception of data transaction requests from the participants;

generating a single blockchain transaction that includes inputs that correspond to source participant identifiers and outputs that correspond to destination participant identifiers; and

publishing the single blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system for validation thereby.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the generated blockchain transaction includes a hash value of the additional transaction data.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the generated blockchain transaction is also signed by another private key.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the another private key is associated with the electronic resource tracking and storage computer system.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a resource allocation request that identifies at least a second participant that will be allocated at least a portion of the quantity value that is an unspent output of the generated blockchain transaction; and

generating a second blockchain transaction that includes data from the output of the generated blockchain transaction as an input for the second blockchain transaction, and the portion of the quantity value and the a second participant identifier that is associated with the second participant as outputs for the second blockchain transaction;

publishing the second generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system for validation thereby;

in correspondence with publishing the second generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system, creating and adding, to the transaction repository, a second transaction record that includes at least some of the data included in the second generated blockchain transaction and additional transaction data that was not included in the second generated blockchain transaction.

16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer readable instructions for use with an electronic resource tracking and storage computer system that includes at least one processor, a memory, and a transceiver, the memory configured to store (a) a plurality of blockchain participant identifiers that are each associated with at least one private key, each of the plurality of blockchain participant identifiers associated with a corresponding one of plural different participants, (b) a resource repository that includes a plurality of blockchain resource identifiers that are each associated with at least one resource private key, and (c) a transaction repository that includes a plurality of blockchain transaction identifiers that correspond to blockchain transactions submitted to the distributed blockchain computing system, the stored computer readable instructions comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to:

receive a resource issuance request for issuance of a new resource for a first participant of the plural different participants;

create and add, to the resource repository, a new digital resource identifier and a corresponding private key for the new digital resource identifier;

generate a blockchain transaction that is to a participant identifier of the first participant, the generated blockchain transaction including the new blockchain resource identifier and a quantity value that corresponds to the new digital resource identifier;

sign the generated blockchain transaction with the private key that is associated with the new blockchain resource identifier;

publish the generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system for validation thereby;

in correspondence with publishing the generated blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system, create and add, to the transaction repository, a new transaction record that includes at least some of the data included in the generated blockchain transaction and additional transaction data that was not included in the generated blockchain transaction;

determine that the blockchain has validated the submitted blockchain transaction; and

responsive to the validation, update the new transaction record to indicate that the generated transaction has been validated by the blockchain.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the stored computer readable instructions comprise further instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to:

begin a first process, during which participants submit data transaction requests to send or receive amounts of the resource that is associated with the new digital resource identifier;

close the first process to reception of data transaction requests from the participants;

generate a single blockchain transaction that includes inputs that correspond to source participant identifiers and outputs that correspond to destination participant identifiers; and

publish the single blockchain transaction to the distributed blockchain computing system for validation thereby.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the generated blockchain transaction includes a hash value of the additional transaction data.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the generated blockchain transaction is also signed by another private key.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the another private key is associated with the electronic resource tracking and storage computer system.