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US 2023/0022301 A1Published application
16/711,350
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsCharles McCoy, True Xiong, Nathan Blaine Morgan, Christopher McEniry
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Abstract
A block chain system allows mining for new valid values in a system such as a computer game or computer-based trading card system. Instead of each new value being added to the block chain being equivalent, each new value is one of a plurality of possible choices.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor configured with instructions to:
- execute at least one rule module comprising instructions about managing at least one processor-accessible ownership block chain and at least one processor-accessible content data structure, the processor-accessible ownership block chain comprising a chain of ownership blocks comprising information related to ownership of content in the processor-accessible content data structure, the processor-accessible content data structure comprising information about the content for which the system can track ownership;
- the rule module defining types of content information that can be stored in the content data structure according to input indicating content type from content owners represented in the ownership block chain and associated with respective content in the content data structure;
- the at least one processor being further configured with instructions to manage the ownership block chain and content structure according to the rule module.
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