DISTRIBUTED LEDGER IMPLEMENTATION FOR ENTITY FORMATION AND MONITORING SYSTEM

• US 20200134719A1
• Filed: 10/30/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZenBusiness, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Zenbusiness PBC
• Inventors: Malik, Muhammad Ashar, Lopez, Rafael, Phu, Van Phuong
• Application Number:
  US16/669,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20200134719A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/36 using electronic wallets or electronic money safes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3674 involving authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/00 Business processing using cryptography postage metering system using cryptography G06Q2250/05
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/062 for key distribution, e.g. centrally by trusted party cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving a central third party H04L9/0819
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/12 Applying verification of the received information cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for data integrity or data verification H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0637 Modes of operation, e.g. cipher block chaining [CBC], electronic codebook [ECB] or Galois/counter mode [GCM]
• 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 9/3255 using group based signatures, e.g. ring or threshold signatures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees

Abstract

A system for operating a distributed ledger implementation for tracking and monitoring entity shares involves receiving a share configuration control at an entity formation and management system by way of a user interface. The system configures a distributed ledger comprising a plurality of gateway nodes to record share transfer activity comprising entity share distribution between the entity, the user account, and combinations thereof in a blockchain as entity records. The system communicates with an oracle service, information provided by the share configuration control, to verify share transfer requirements for each entity share distribution. The system transfers entity shares to the first party in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met by the first party and the entity. The system writes a share transfer record into the blockchain in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a share configuration control at an entity formation and management system by way of a user interface, wherein the entity formation and management system includes information about a share structure of an entity, and where the share configuration control is a request by a first party with a user account to change the share structure of the entity;

configuring a distributed ledger comprising a plurality of gateway nodes to record share transfer activity comprising entity share distribution between the entity, the user account, and combinations thereof in a blockchain as entity records, wherein the distributed ledger includes entity digital assets representing entity shares;

communicating with an oracle service, information provided by the share configuration control, to verify share transfer requirements for each entity share distribution;

transferring entity shares to the first party in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met by the first party and the entity; and

writing a share transfer record into the blockchain in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met by the first party and the entity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request to change the structure of the entity is at least one of transferring existing entity shares to an existing shareholder, transferring the existing entity shares to a new shareholder, transferring new entity shares to an existing shareholder, and transferring the new entity shares to a new shareholder.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising granting the first party and the entity a multisignature wallet configured to accept keypairs, wherein the multisignature wallet requires approval from N-keypairs out of M-keypairs to transfer the entity shares to the first party and write the share transfer record into the distributed ledger by way of a block submission service.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein:

the first party is granted X first party (FP)-keypairs out of M-keypairs;

the entity is granted Y entity-keypairs out of M-keypairs; and

a board authority is granted Z board authority (BA)-keypairs out of M-keypairs,

wherein a total number of M-keypairs equals X+Y+Z, and the board authority is part of the entity.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the N-keypairs must include at least one entity-keypair and at least one BA-keypair.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the N-keypairs do not include any FP-keypairs.

7. The method of claim 2 further comprising transferring new issuance entity shares, the method including:

granting the first party and the entity a multisignature wallet configured to accept keypairs, wherein the multisignature wallet requires approval from N-keypairs out of M-keypairs to transfer the entity shares or new issuance entity shares to the first party, or write the share transfer record into the blockchain;

filling a new share multisignature wallet with new digital assets; and

transferring the new digital assets to the first party,

wherein the new digital assets in the new share multisignature wallet are used to transfer the new issuance entity shares from the new share multisignature wallet to the first party multisignature wallet,

wherein a total number of new digital assets in the new share multisignature wallet is reduced by a total number of new entity shares transferred.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the updating the entity digital assets in the distributed ledger to reflect a new share distribution.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the new digital assets are not part of the entity digital assets in the distributed ledger.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive a share configuration control at an entity formation and management system by way of a user interface, wherein the entity formation and management system includes information about a share structure of an entity, and where the share configuration control is a request by a first party with a user account to change the share structure of the entity;

configure a distributed ledger comprising a plurality of gateway nodes to record share transfer activity comprising entity share distribution between the entity, the user account, and combinations thereof in a blockchain as entity records, wherein the distributed ledger includes entity digital assets representing entity shares;

communicate with an oracle service, information provided by the share configuration control, to verify share transfer requirements for each entity share distribution;

transfer entity shares to the first party in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met by the first party and the entity; and

write a share transfer record into the blockchain in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met by the first party and the entity.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the request to change the structure of the entity is at least one of transfer existing entity shares to an existing shareholder, transferring the existing entity shares to a new shareholder, transferring new entity shares to an existing shareholder, and transferring the new entity shares to a new shareholder.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the instructions further configure the computer to grant the first party and the entity a multisignature wallet configured to accept keypairs, wherein the multisignature wallet requires approval from N-keypairs out of M-keypairs to transfer the entity shares to the first party and write the share transfer record into the distributed ledger by way of a block submission service.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the first party is granted X first party (FP)-keypairs out of M-keypairs;

the entity is granted Y entity-keypairs out of M-keypairs; and

a board authority is granted Z board authority (BA)-keypairs out of M-keypairs,

wherein a total number of M-keypairs equals X+Y+Z, and the board authority is part of the entity.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the N-keypairs must include at least one entity-keypair and at least one BA-keypair.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the N-keypairs do not include any FP-keypairs.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the instructions further configure the computer to transfer new issuance entity shares, the instructions including:

grant the first party and the entity a multisignature wallet configured to accept keypairs, wherein the multisignature wallet requires approval from N-keypairs out of M-keypairs to transfer the entity shares or new issuance entity shares to the first party, or write the share transfer record into the blockchain;

fill a new share multisignature wallet with new digital assets; and

transfer the new digital assets to the first party,

wherein the new digital assets in the new share multisignature wallet are used to transfer the new issuance entity shares from the new share multisignature wallet to the first party multisignature wallet,

wherein a total number of new digital assets in the new share multisignature wallet is reduced by a total number of new entity shares transferred.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions further configure the computer to the updating the entity digital assets in the distributed ledger to reflect a new share distribution.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the new digital assets are not part of the entity digital assets in the distributed ledger.

19. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the system to;

receive a share configuration control at an entity formation and management system by way of a user interface, wherein the entity formation and management system includes information about a share structure of an entity, and where the share configuration control is a request by a first party with a user account to change the share structure of the entity;

configure a distributed ledger comprising a plurality of gateway nodes to record share transfer activity comprising entity share distribution between the entity, the user account, and combinations thereof in a blockchain as entity records, wherein the distributed ledger includes entity digital assets representing entity shares;

communicate with an oracle service, information provided by the share configuration control, to verify share transfer requirements for each entity share distribution;

transfer entity shares to the first party in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met by the first party and the entity; and

write a share transfer record into the blockchain in response to the oracle service verifying that the share transfer requirements were met by the first party and the entity.

20. The system of claim 19, the instructions further comprising granting the first party and the entity a multisignature wallet configured to accept keypairs, wherein the multisignature wallet requires approval from N-keypairs out of M-keypairs to transfer the entity shares to the first party and write the share transfer record into the distributed ledger by way of a block submission service.