Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Both of today's applications are assigned to Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC (see also ). Both applications disclose techniques for controlling rights related to digital knowledge.
20220172207, "Computer-implemented methods for controlling rights related to digital knowledge," assigned to Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for controlling rights related to digital knowledge is disclosed. The method includes creating and managing a distributed ledger which includes a plurality of blocks linked via cryptography distributed over a plurality of nodes of a network. The method further includes implementing and managing a smart contract which includes a triggering event and a smart contract action. The method further includes receiving, tokenizing, and storing an instance of the digital knowledge in the distributed ledger. The method includes managing, rights of control of and access to the tokenized digital knowledge based on the smart contract, and performing, in response to an occurrence of the triggering event, the corresponding smart contract action with respect to the tokenized digital knowledge.
20220172208, "Systems and methods for controlling rights related to digital knowledge," assigned to Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC
Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling rights related to digital knowledge are disclosed. The system may include an input system to receive a three-dimensional (3D) printer instructions set for printing a 3D project; a tokenization system to tokenize the digital knowledge and a ledger management system to store the tokenized digital knowledge. The system may further include a smart contract system to implement a smart contract via the distributed ledger, perform a smart contract action with respect to the tokenized digital knowledge in response to an occurrence of a triggering event; process commitments of a plurality of parties to the smart contract; and manage rights of control of and access to the tokenized digital knowledge according to the smart contract. The distributed ledger includes a plurality of cryptographically linked blocks distributed over a plurality of nodes of a network.
