SELF REGULATING TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREFOR

• US 20180308134A1
• Filed: 06/15/2018
• Published: 10/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kochava, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kochava, Inc.
• Inventors: MANNING, Charles, FALCONER, Aubrey
• Granted Patent: US 10,282,762 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0442 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply asymmetric encryption, i.e. different keys for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for public-key encryption H04L9/30

Abstract

A first processor-accessible memory device system and a second processor-accessible memory device system of a self-regulating transaction system may each store a respective local copy of one or more transaction ledgers that record transactions. A first data processing device system may be configured to generate a transaction information block associated with a particular market channel, store it in the local copy of a transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, and transmit it to a second data processing device system over a communications network for storage in the local copy of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel stored in the second processor-accessible memory device system.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A system comprising:

a communications network; and

a plurality of data processing device systems communicatively connected to the communications network, each of the plurality of data processing device systems communicatively connected to a respective processor-accessible memory device system and a respective input-output device system,

wherein a first data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a first processor-accessible memory device system and a first input-output device system, the first input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network,

wherein a second data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a second processor-accessible memory device system and a second input-output device system, the second input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network,

wherein the first processor-accessible memory device system associated with the first data processing device system and the second processor-accessible memory device system associated with the second data processing device system each stores a respective local copy of at least a respective portion of each of one or more transaction ledgers that record transactions, each transaction ledger associated with a market channel,

wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via a first program stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, to;

generate a transaction information block associated with a particular market channel,

store the generated transaction information block in the first processor-accessible memory device system as an update to the respective local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, and

transmit the generated transaction information block to the second data processing device system over the communications network via the first input-output device system, and

wherein the second data processing device system is configured, via a second program stored in the second processor-accessible memory device system, to;

receive the generated transaction information block over the communications network via the second input-output device system, and

store the received transaction information block in the second processor-accessible memory device system as an update to the respective local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel.

3. The system of claim 2,

wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via the first program stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, to:

determine inventory available for transaction, and

identify the particular market channel as associated with the inventory available for transaction, and

wherein the generated transaction information block includes indications of the inventory available for transaction and one or more transaction terms.

4. The system of claim 3,

wherein the determined inventory available for transaction includes product or service identifiers, each of the product or service identifiers identifying a product or service available for transaction, and

wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via a program, to encrypt the product or service identifiers to generate encrypted product or service identifiers, the encrypted product or service identifiers included in the inventory available for transaction in the generated transaction information block.

5. The system of claim 4,

wherein the product or service identifiers are device identifiers, each of the device identifiers identifying a device to which an advertisement is authorized to be delivered, and

wherein the encrypted product or service identifiers are encrypted device identifiers.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein each device is a mobile electronic device to which an advertisement is authorized to be visually presented via an application executing on the mobile electronic device, the application associated with the first data processing device system.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via the first program, to encrypt the product or service identifiers to generate the encrypted product or service identifiers according to an encryption key.

8. The system of claim 7,

wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via the first program, to encrypt the product or service identifiers to generate the encrypted product or service identifiers according to a public encryption key,

wherein a third data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a third processor-accessible memory device system and a third input-output device system, the third input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network,

wherein the third processor-accessible memory device system associated with the third data processing device system stores a respective local copy of at least a respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel including a first transaction information block set associated with an operation set with respect to at least a subset of the inventory available for transaction, the first transaction information block set including the encrypted product or service identifiers, and

wherein the third data processing device system is configured, via a third program stored in the third processor-accessible memory device system, to:

decrypt the encrypted product or service identifiers according to a private encryption key corresponding to the public encryption key.

9. The system of claim 8,

wherein the first transaction information block set indicates characteristics of the products or services associated with the encrypted product or service identifiers, and

wherein the third data processing device system is configured, via the third program, to:

verify that the decrypted product or service identifiers are associated with products or services that agree with the characteristics, and

add a digital signature to the respective local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel stored in the third processor-accessible memory device system, in response to verifying that the decrypted product or service identifiers are associated with products or services that agree with the characteristics.

10. The system of claim 7,

wherein a third data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a third processor-accessible memory device system and a third input-output device system, the third input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network,

wherein the third processor-accessible memory device system associated with the third data processing device system stores a respective local copy of at least a respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel including a first transaction information block set associated with an operation set with respect to at least a subset of the inventory available for transaction, the first transaction information block set including product or service identifiers encrypted according to a public encryption key associated with the third data processing system and including at least a subset of the one or more transaction terms,

wherein a fourth data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a fourth processor-accessible memory device system and a fourth input-output device system, the fourth input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network,

wherein the fourth processor-accessible memory device system associated with the fourth data processing device system stores a respective local copy of at least a portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the at least the respective portion of the respective local copy of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel including the first transaction information block set, the first transaction information block set further including a digital signature associated with the third data processing device system and a digital signature associated with the fourth data processing device system, and

wherein the third data processing device system is configured, via a third program, to:

decrypt the encrypted product or service identifiers according to a private encryption key corresponding to the public encryption key associated with the third data processing device system,

verify, utilizing the decrypted product or service identifiers, that the at least the subset of the one or more transaction terms have been fulfilled, transmit a failure indication to the fourth processor-accessible memory device system in response to a failure of the verification that the at least the subset of the one or more transaction terms have been fulfilled, and transmit a success indication to the fourth processor-accessible memory device system in response to success of the verification that the at least the subset of the one or more transaction terms have been fulfilled.

14. The system of claim 2,

wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via the first program stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, to:

cause a search of at least part of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel for a particular transaction information block associated with an inventory transaction,

identify at least one measurement indicator based on one or more transaction terms in the particular transaction information block, and

determine a status of the inventory transaction based at least on an analysis of the at least one measurement indicator, and

wherein the generated transaction information block includes the status of the inventory transaction.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via the first program stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, to:

determine the status of the inventory transaction as successfully completed in a case where the one or more transaction terms have been fulfilled in accordance with the at least one measurement indicator,

generate an updated transaction information block based on the particular transaction information block with a digital signature associated with the first data processing device system in response to determining that the status of the inventory transaction is successfully completed, and

transmit the generated updated transaction information block to a third data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems over the communications network via the first input-output device system.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the third data processing device system is or is a subset of the second data processing device system.

17. The system of claim 15,

wherein a fourth data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a fourth processor-accessible memory device system and a fourth input-output device system, the fourth input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network, and the fourth data processing device system other than the first data processing device system,

wherein the fourth processor-accessible memory device system associated with the fourth data processing device system stores a respective local copy of at least a respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel including the digitally signed updated transaction information block, and

wherein the fourth data processing device system is configured, via a fourth program stored in the fourth processor-accessible memory device system, to:

identify, from the local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the digitally signed updated transaction information block,

determine that the status of the inventory transaction is successfully completed based on an analysis of the identified digitally signed updated transaction information block, and

transmit, in response to determining that the inventory transaction is successfully completed, an instruction set instructing release of assets associated with the inventory transaction.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via the first program stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, to:

determine the status of the inventory transaction as partially completed in a case where the one or more transaction terms have been partially, but not completely, fulfilled in accordance with at least one of the at least one measurement indicator.

19. The system of claim 18,

wherein a fourth data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a fourth processor-accessible memory device system and a fourth input-output device system, the fourth input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network, and the fourth data processing device system other than the first data processing device system,

wherein the fourth processor-accessible memory device system associated with the fourth data processing device system stores a respective local copy of at least a respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel including the generated transaction information block including the partially completed status of the inventory transaction, and

wherein the fourth data processing device system is configured, via a fourth program stored in the fourth processor-accessible memory device system, to:

identify, from the local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the partially completed status of the inventory transaction based, and

transmit, in response to identifying the partially completed status of the inventory transaction, an instruction set instructing release of some, but not all, of assets associated with the inventory transaction.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the first data processing device system is configured, via the first program stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, to:

determine the status of the inventory transaction as in a failure state in a case where the one or more transaction terms have not been met in accordance with at least one of the at least one measurement indicator.

21. The system of claim 20,

wherein a fourth data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a fourth processor-accessible memory device system and a fourth input-output device system, the fourth input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network, and the fourth data processing device system other than the first data processing device system,

wherein the fourth processor-accessible memory device system associated with the fourth data processing device system stores a respective local copy of at least a respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel including the generated transaction information block including the failure state status of the inventory transaction and contingency arrangements associated with the inventory transaction, and

wherein the fourth data processing device system is configured, via a fourth program stored in the fourth processor-accessible memory device system, to:

identify, from the local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, the failure state status of the inventory transaction,

identify, from the local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel and in response to identifying the failure state status, the contingency arrangements associated with the inventory transaction, and

transmit an instruction set instructing processing of assets associated with the inventory transaction in accordance with the contingency arrangements.

11-13. -13. (canceled)

22-40. -40. (canceled)

41. A transaction processing system comprising:

a plurality of data processing device systems communicatively connected to a communications network, each of the plurality of data processing device systems communicatively connected to a respective processor-accessible memory device system included in the transaction processing system and a respective input-output device system included in the transaction processing system,

wherein a first data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a first processor-accessible memory device system and a first input-output device system, the first input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network,

wherein a second data processing device system of the plurality of data processing device systems is communicatively connected to a second processor-accessible memory device system and a second input-output device system, the second input-output device system communicatively connected to the communications network,

wherein the first processor-accessible memory device system associated with the first data processing device system and the second processor-accessible memory device system associated with the second data processing device system each stores a respective program and a respective local copy of at least a respective portion of each of one or more transaction ledgers that record transactions, each transaction ledger associated with a market channel,

wherein the respective program stored by the first processor-accessible memory device system comprises;

generation instructions configured to cause generation of a transaction information block associated with a particular market channel,

first storage instructions configured to cause storage of the generated transaction information block in the first processor-accessible memory device system as an update to the respective local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel, and

transmission instructions configured to cause transmission of the generated transaction information block to the second data processing device system over the communications network via the first input-output device system, and

wherein the respective program stored by the second processor-accessible memory device system comprises;

reception instructions configured to cause reception of the generated transaction information block over the communications network via the second input-output device system, and

second storage instructions configured to cause storage of the received transaction information block in the second processor-accessible memory device system as an update to the respective local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel.

42. A transaction processing method executed by a first data processing device system communicatively connected to a communications network, the first data processing device system communicatively connected to a first processor-accessible memory device system and a first input-output device system, the method comprising:

storing, executed by the first data processing device system and via the first processor-accessible memory device system, a local copy of at least a respective portion of each of one or more transaction ledgers that record transactions, each transaction ledger associated with a market channel;

generating, executed by the first data processing device system, a transaction information block associated with a particular market channel;

storing, executed by the first data processing device system and via the first processor-accessible memory device system, the generated transaction information block in the first processor-accessible memory device system as an update to the local copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel; and

transmitting, executed by the first data processing device system and via the first input-output device system, the generated transaction information block to a second data processing device system over the communications network.

43. A computer-readable storage medium system comprising one or more computer-readable storage mediums storing a program executable by one or more data processing devices of a data processing device system communicatively connected to an input-output device system and a communications network, the program comprising:

a first storage module configured to store, on a particular one or more computer-readable storage mediums, a copy of at least a respective portion of each of one or more transaction ledgers that record transactions, each transaction ledger associated with a market channel;

a generation module configured to generate a transaction information block associated with a particular market channel;

a second storage module configured to store, on the particular one or more computer-readable storage mediums, the generated transaction information block as an update to the copy of the at least the respective portion of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel; and

a transmission module configured to transmit, via the input-output device system, the generated transaction information block to a second data processing device system over the communications network.

44-57. -57. (canceled)