Granted Patent B2

US 12,346,899 · App. 17/929,894 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Inventors: Ajay Kapur (Valencia, CA); Bjorn Markus Jakobsson (Portola Valley, CA); Stephen C. Gerber (Austin, TX); Perry R. Cook (Jacksonville, OR); Rebecca Anne Fiebrink (London, GB)

Assignee: Artema Labs, Inc

G06Q20/389G06Q20/123G06Q20/3678G06Q30/08

Abstract

Claims (41)

1. A non-fungible token (NFT) evolution system, comprising:

a plurality of computer systems, wherein:

the plurality of computer systems:

is connected via a network;

comprises at least one immutable ledger; and

provides a non-fungible token (NFT) registry, wherein entries in the NFT registry correspond to programmatically defined smart contracts written to the at least one immutable ledger; and

at least one of the plurality of computer systems is configured as an NFT registry service, wherein the NFT registry service is configured to:

authenticate a set of content creator credentials;

mint an NFT to the at least one immutable ledger based on the authentication; and

record the minted NFT in the NFT registry, wherein the minted NFT:

is cryptographically co-signed by the NFT registry service and an authenticated content creator;

corresponds to a plurality of pieces of content;

comprises a plurality of layers, each layer associated with a particular piece of the plurality of pieces of content; and

is associated with a set of data access permissions for the plurality of layers; and

a user device that is configured by a media wallet application to:

securely store at least part of the minted NFT in a memory on the user device;

display, in a user interface, content corresponding to a first subset of layers of the plurality of layers of the minted NFT, wherein the content corresponding to the first subset of layers is displayed based on the set of data access permissions;

perform at least one of:

sending a communication to the plurality of computer systems, wherein:

the communication instructs the plurality of computer systems to write media consumption data to the at least one immutable ledger according to the set of data access permissions; and

the media consumption data corresponds to the minted NFT and the displaying of the content corresponding to the first subset of layers; or

detecting a trigger event, corresponding to a change in displayable layers of the minted NFT, wherein detecting the trigger event comprises:

accessing stored data comprising a plurality of data types, from the user device, wherein the plurality of data types comprises at least one of location data, sound data, voice data, biometric data, audio data, image data, or QR-codes; and

using the stored data to determine whether a pre-determined condition is met; and

when the trigger event is detected by the user device:

obtain a set of updated data access permissions for the plurality of layers; and

display, in the user interface, content corresponding to a second subset of layers of the plurality of layers of the minted NFT, wherein:

the second subset of layers is decrypted in response to the trigger event; and

the content corresponding to the second subset of layers is displayed based on the set of updated data access permissions.

2. The NFT evolution system of claim 1 , wherein detecting a trigger event further comprises detecting at least one event selected from the group consisting of: detecting a transaction associated with the NFT; detecting a geophysical location of the user device associated with the NFT is at a particular area; detecting a certain monetary value associated with the NFT; and detecting an amount of bidding activity associated with the NFT.

3. The NFT evolution system of claim 1 , wherein, when the minted NFT is recorded, the NFT registry service is configured to:

receive a smart contract that provides an asset control policy associated with the minted NFT;

store the smart contract in a storage element associated with the minted NFT; and

add the storage element to the at least one immutable ledger.

4. The NFT evolution system of claim 3 , wherein:

storage elements on the at least one immutable ledger are linked; and

a more recent storage element references a prior storage element and adds data that augments the prior storage element.

5. The NFT evolution system of claim 1 , wherein:

the minted NFT is associated with one or more of a particular timestamp or a particular GPS location; and

detecting the trigger event comprises retrieving at least one of a current time of day and a current GPS location of the user device.

6. The NFT evolution system of claim 1 , where the NFT registry service is configured to mint a new NFT based on the trigger event.

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