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Granted Patent B2
US 12,276,946 · App. 18/456,714 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Systems and methods for creating a customized watch face and retrieving the watch face to be displayed

Inventors: Collin Knock (San Juan, PR); Justin Knock (San Juan, PR)
Assignee: Watch Skins Corporation
G04G9/0064G04G9/0017G04G17/04G06F3/0481G06Q20/367
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Patent No.
US 12,276,946
App. No.
18/456,714
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods to create a customized watch face and retrieve the watch face to be displayed are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may effectuate presentation of a selection interface; receive a mint request to mint the watch face in accordance with a watch face design; effectuate a transfer of consideration from a user wallet to an administrative wallet; mint the watch face; transfer a non-fungible token to the user wallet; receive a display request to display the watch face on a watch screen; determine whether the user wallet holds a non-fungible token associated with the watch face; responsive to the user wallet holding the non-fungible token, facilitate display of the watch face on the watch screen; responsive to the user wallet not holding the non-fungible token, take no action to facilitate display of the watch face on the watch screen; and/or perform other operations.

Claims (33)

1. A system configured to create a customized watch face, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured by machine-reachable instructions to:

effectuate presentation of a selection interface on a client computing platform associated with a user, wherein the selection interface facilitates entry of a watch face design by the user;

receive, from the client computing platform, a mint request to mint the watch face and thereby generate a new watch face in accordance with the watch face design entered via the selection interface by the user;

responsive to receipt of the mint request, effectuate a transfer of consideration from a user wallet associated with the user to an administrative wallet, wherein the user wallet and the administrative wallet each correspond to addresses on the decentralized ledger such that the transfer of consideration involves a transfer of value on the decentralized ledger from the address associated with the user wallet to the address associated with the administrative wallet; and

responsive to the administrative wallet receiving the consideration and further responsive to receipt of the mint request:

(i) mint the watch face, wherein minting the watch face includes generating a watch face record for the watch face in accordance with the watch face design, and wherein the watch face record includes a watch face identifier, and

(ii) transfer a non-fungible token indicating the watch face identifier to the address on the decentralized ledger that corresponds to the user wallet.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating a watch face record for the watch face further includes burning the watch face design, such that a second watch face cannot be minted by the system in accordance with the same watch face design.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein watch face designs are defined by values of watch face features, and wherein the selection interface facilitates selection of one or more values of watch face features to generate a watch face design.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein watch face features include one or more of hour hands, minute hands, backsplash, dials, subdials, hour markers, weather displays, or date displays.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the selection interface displays associated costs for individual ones of the values of watch face features, and wherein the cost of the watch face design is based on the combined associated costs of the values of watch face features that define the watch face design.

6. The system of claim 3 , wherein the values of watch face features defining the watch face design is randomly generated by the system, such that the watch face is minted and the watch face record is generated in accordance with the randomly generated watch face design.

7. The system of claim 3 , wherein watch face features include hour hands, minute hands, backsplash, dials, subdials, weather displays, and date displays.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the appearance of watch face features of a watch face displayed on a watch change based on the passage of time, real-world events, and/or the geographical location of the watch displaying the watch face.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the selection interface includes one or more pre-selected watch face designs that are selectable by the user, wherein selection of the pre-selected watch face designs facilitates minting watch faces in accordance with the pre-selected designs.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the decentralized ledger is part of EOSIO mainnet, Ethereum mainnet, Ethereum 1.2, Ethereum 2, a derivative of Ethereum 2.0 that is configured to perform transactions of Ether (ETH) between accounts, or a derivative of EOSIO that is configured to perform transactions of EOS between different accounts.

11. A method for creating a customized watch face, the method comprising:

effectuating presentation of a selection interface on a client computing platform associated with a user, wherein the selection interface facilitates entry of a watch face design by the user;

receiving, from the client computing platform, a mint request to mint the watch face and thereby generate a new watch face in accordance with the watch face design entered via the selection interface by the user;

responsive to receipt of the mint request, effectuating a transfer of consideration from a user wallet associated with the user to an administrative wallet, wherein the user wallet and the administrative wallet each correspond to addresses on the decentralized ledger such that the transfer of consideration involves a transfer of value on the decentralized ledger from the address associated with the user wallet to the address associated with the administrative wallet; and

responsive to the administrative wallet receiving the consideration and further responsive to receipt of the mint request:

(i) minting the watch face, wherein minting the watch face includes generating a watch face record for the watch face in accordance with the watch face design, and wherein the watch face record includes a watch face identifier, and

(ii) transferring a non-fungible token indicating the watch face identifier to the address on the decentralized ledger that corresponds to the user wallet.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein generating a watch face record for the watch face further includes burning the watch face design, such that a second watch face cannot be minted by the system in accordance with the same watch face design.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein watch face designs are defined by values of watch face features, and wherein the selection interface facilitates selection of one or more values of watch face features to generate a watch face design.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein watch face features include one or more of hour hands, minute hands, backsplash, dials, subdials, hour markers, weather displays, or date displays.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the selection interface displays associated costs for individual ones of the values of watch face features, and wherein the cost of the watch face design is based on the combined associated costs of the values of watch face features that define the watch face design.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the values of watch face features defining the watch face design is randomly generated by the system, such that the watch face is minted and the watch face record is generated in accordance with the randomly generated watch face design.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein watch face features include hour hands, minute hands, backsplash, dials, subdials, weather displays, and date displays.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the appearance of watch face features of a watch face displayed on a watch change based on the passage of time, real-world events, and/or the geographical location of the watch displaying the watch face.

19. The method of claim 11 , wherein the selection interface includes one or more pre-selected watch face designs that are selectable by the user, wherein selection of the pre-selected watch face designs facilitates minting watch faces in accordance with the pre-selected designs.

20. The method of claim 11 , wherein the decentralized ledger is part of EOSIO mainnet, Ethereum mainnet, Ethereum 1.2, Ethereum 2, a derivative of Ethereum 2.0 that is configured to perform transactions of Ether (ETH) between accounts, or a derivative of EOSIO that is configured to perform transactions of EOS between different accounts.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 28, 2023
From: KNOCK, COLLIN; KNOCK, JUSTIN
To: WATCH SKINS CORPORATION
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Continuity (3)
Continuation 17728541 · Apr 25, 2022
Continuation 17367260 · Jul 2, 2021
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