Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Strong Force, the first patent addresses transaction-enabled techniques for smart contracts. Assigned to Kakao Games (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for mediating advertisement based on block chain.
11,373,259, "Transaction-enabled systems and methods for smart contracts," assigned to Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC.
Abstract
An example transaction-enabled system may include a smart contract wrapper to access a distributed ledger comprising intellectual property (IP) licensing terms corresponding to IP assets, wherein the IP licensing terms include an apportionment of royalties among owning entities in the distributed ledger. The smart contract wrapper may interpret an IP description value and an IP addition request, and, in response to the IP addition request and the IP description value, to add the apportionment of royalties corresponding to the IP description value. At least one of the plurality of IP assets comprises an instruction set and an operation on the distributed ledger provides provable access to the instruction set. A royalty apportionment wrapper apportions royalties from at least one royalty generating element to owning entities in response to the IP licensing terms.
11,373,216, "Method, server, and computer program for mediating advertisement based on block chain," assigned to Kakao Games Corp. (KR)
Abstract
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a computer program stored in a computer readable storage medium is disclosed. The computer program includes commands causing a computer to perform operations below, the operations including: receiving first information about an advertisement transaction request, second information about a reward payment condition, and a sealed first coin from an advertiser device; receiving advertisement selection information from an advertisement agency; generating an advertisement page based on the first information when the advertisement selection information corresponds to the first information; transmitting the advertisement page to the advertisement agency to cause the advertisement page to be exposed through the advertisement agency; transmitting the second coin to the advertisement agency based on the second information and transmitting the sealed third coin to the advertisement exposure target according to a reception of an application signal from the advertisement exposure target through the advertisement page; and when the reward payment condition is satisfied, transmitting a first key corresponding to the second coin to the advertisement agency, and transmitting the second key corresponding to the third coin to the advertisement exposure target.
