IP Library Granted Patent US 11,062,294
Granted Patent B2
US 11,062,294 · App. 16/214,692 · Granted Jul 13, 2021

Cognitive blockchain for customized interchange determination

Inventor: Rahul Jain (Kolkata, IN)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
G06Q20/24G06Q20/14G06Q20/202G06Q20/389G06Q20/40G06Q40/025
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,062,294
App. No.
16/214,692
Granted
Jul 13, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of identifying, via a cognitive system, that a change in a creditworthiness attribute of a cardholder has occurred with respect to a previous creditworthiness of the cardholder, in response to identifying the change in the creditworthiness attribute of the cardholder, dynamically determining a custom interchange value for the cardholder to be used in payment transactions based on a current credit data of the cardholder, transmitting the dynamically determined custom interchange value for the cardholder to one or more blockchain peer nodes, and storing the dynamically determined custom interchange value in a hash-linked chain of blocks via a distributed ledger.

Claims (33)

1. A computing system comprising:

a processor configured to detect, via a machine learning model, a change in a creditworthiness attribute of a cardholder has occurred based on patterns in data of the cardholder received from multiple data sources, and dynamically update, via a smart contract of a blockchain, a custom interchange value for the cardholder to be used in payment transactions based on the detected change in the creditworthiness attribute of the cardholder;

a network interface configured to transmit the dynamically updated custom interchange value for the cardholder to a plurality of blockchain peer nodes corresponding to a plurality of different participants of the blockchain; and

a storage configured to store the dynamically determined custom interchange value in a hash-linked chain of blocks of the blockchain,

wherein the processor is further configured to determine that the plurality of blockchain peers have reached a consensus on the dynamically updated custom interchange value prior to storing the dynamically determined custom interchange value.

2. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the dynamically updated custom interchange value defines a fee to be charged by an entity that covers a cost of credit risk in a payment transaction of the cardholder.

3. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the machine learning model comprises an unsupervised learning model that identifies relationships between data points from the plurality of data sources.

4. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to dynamically determine the dynamically updated custom interchange value for the cardholder based on a plurality of attributes included in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system of an issuer of a payment account of the cardholder.

5. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to dynamically determine the dynamically updated custom interchange value based on a credit data of other cardholders received from a plurality of blockchain peer nodes.

6. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to replace a previously assigned custom interchange value of the cardholder with the dynamically updated custom interchange value that comprises a different value.

7. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the network interface is further configured to receive an authorization request from a merchant point-of-sale (POS) terminal and transmit an authorization response to the merchant POS terminal which comprises the dynamically updated custom interchange value for the cardholder stored in the hash-linked chain of blocks.

8. A method comprising:

detecting, via a machine learning model, a change in a creditworthiness attribute of a cardholder has occurred based on patterns in data of the cardholder received from multiple data source;

dynamically updating, via a smart contract of a blockchain, a custom interchange value for the cardholder to be used in payment transactions based on the detected change in the creditworthiness attribute of the cardholder;

transmitting the dynamically updated custom interchange value for the cardholder to a plurality of blockchain peer nodes corresponding to a plurality of different participants of the blockchain; and

storing the dynamically determined custom interchange value in a hash-linked chain of blocks of the blockchain,

wherein the method further comprises determining that the plurality of blockchain peers have reached a consensus on the dynamically updated custom interchange value prior to storing the dynamically determined custom interchange value.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the storing comprises storing the dynamically updated custom interchange value for the cardholder, data hashes and sizes in response to a consensus by a plurality of nodes of the blockchain.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the dynamically updated custom interchange value defines a fee to be charged by an entity that covers a cost of credit risk in a payment transaction of the cardholder.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the machine learning model comprises an unsupervised learning model that identifies relationships between data points from the plurality of data sources.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the dynamically determining comprises dynamically determining the dynamically updated custom interchange value for the cardholder based on a plurality of attributes included in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system of an issuer of a payment account of the cardholder.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the dynamically determining comprises dynamically determining the dynamically updated custom interchange value based on a credit data of other cardholders received from a plurality of blockchain peer nodes.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the dynamically updating comprises replacing a previously assigned custom interchange value of the cardholder with the dynamically updated custom interchange value comprising a different value.

15. The method of claim 8 , further comprising receiving an authorization request from a merchant point-of-sale (POS) terminal and transmitting an authorization response to the merchant POS terminal which comprises the dynamically updated custom interchange value for the cardholder stored in the hash-linked chain of blocks.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that when read by a processor cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

detecting, via machine learning model, a change in a creditworthiness attribute of a cardholder has occurred based on patterns in data of the cardholder received from multiple data sources;

dynamically updating, via a smart contract of a blockchain, a custom interchange value for the cardholder to be used in payment transactions based on the detected change in the creditworthiness attribute of the cardholder;

transmitting the dynamically updated custom interchange value for the cardholder to a plurality of blockchain peer nodes corresponding to a plurality of different participants of the blockchain; and

storing the dynamically determined custom interchange value in a hash-linked chain of blocks of the blockchain,

wherein the method further comprises determining that the plurality of blockchain peers have reached a consensus on the dynamically updated custom interchange value prior to storing the dynamically determined custom interchange value.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the dynamically updating comprises dynamically determining the dynamically updated custom interchange value based on a credit data of other cardholders received from a plurality of blockchain peer nodes.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the dynamically updated custom interchange value defines a fee to be charged by an entity that covers a cost of credit risk in a payment transaction of the cardholder.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the machine learning model comprises an unsupervised learning model that identifies relationships between data points from the plurality of data sources.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 10, 2018
From: JAIN, RAHUL
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047727/0868 →
Continuity (1)
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