Abstract: The present specification discloses a computer tangible medium containing instructions to regulate creation and distribution of blockchain blocks based upon system utilization. The method includes determining utilization of a computer resource and creating a virtual blockchain block based on a data object when utilization exceeds a first threshold. The virtual blockchain block includes file metadata on the data object, but does not include blockchain cryptographic information. The method includes creating a real blockchain block based on the data object when utilization does not exceed the first threshold. The virtual blockchain block is converted to the real blockchain block when utilization drops below the first threshold.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a blockchain zipper encrypted package. The blockchain zipper encrypted package is formed of a dual blockchain structure where the two blockchains are logically interlocked in order to form a zipper encrypted package. One of the two blockchains is a data blockchain that contains data. The data contained by the data blockchain can be any form of data: financial data, medical data, business data, technical data, software data, informational data, executable data, and data in the form of: emails, spreadsheets, documents, photographs, media, images, photos, video, music, or any kind of file. The other of the two blockchains is a public key encryption blockchain that contains prime numbers used to encrypt and decrypt the data blockchain. Public key encryption requires two prime numbers. These two prime numbers are stored in different blockchain blocks that are adjacent to each other according to the present specification.

Abstract: The present specification is directed toward the use of hash digests and blockchain technology to secure the integrity of a media file having Group-Of-Picture (GOP) video streams, audio streams, and data streams. For GOP video streams, the use of hash digests and blockchain technology may take the form of an H-Frame that appends a GOP of I, P, and B frames. For audio streams, the use of hash digests and blockchain technology may take the form of an AH-Frame that appends an audio block of information. For data streams, the use of hash digests and blockchain technology may take the form of a DH-Frame that appends a data block of information.

Abstract: A system and method to distribute pesticides, fertilizers, water, and other materials on a farm with accuracy and precision is disclosed in order to combat the problems imposed on the environment due to over-fertilization and over use of pesticides. This system and method is a social networking control system in which multiple farms have independent grids of sensors capable of detecting the presence of pesticides, fertilizers, water, and other materials in the air, in the top-soil, and in the groundwater. These grids of sensors detect the location and concentration of these materials and reports them back to a social control system for analysis. The control system regulates the deposition of further chemicals through computer control of the chemical dispersal systems.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a blockchain having a finite number of blockchain blocks secured in a loop with a locking blockchain block executed by instructions stored on a non-volatile computer tangible medium. The blockchain has a genesis blockchain block and a terminating blockchain block that ends the blockchain. The blockchain also has a blockchain lock block that includes a hash digest based on a hash digest from the genesis blockchain block and a hash digest from the terminating blockchain block. The blockchain lock block logically locks the genesis blockchain block to the terminating blockchain block forming the blockchain into a loop by cryptographically linking the genesis blockchain block to the terminating blockchain block, thereby preventing the addition of new blockchain blocks in the blockchain that continue a conventional blockchain through hashes based on just the previous blockchain block.

Abstract: Digital media that has been blockchained into a blockchain file format may be stored into a secondary file format like a Material eXchange Format (MXF) digital file by deconstructing the blockchain file and storing its subcomponent blockchain data and blockchain hash digests for each block within separate structures of the MXF digital file by generating a table for the blockchain hash digests that links to the blockchain data through data pointers. These separate structures of the MXF digital file are the generic container for a media file and a SDTI-CP (Serial Data Transport Interface—Content Package) compatible system item.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer tangible medium containing instructions for securing a large data set within a Merkle Tree structure is disclosed in the present specification. The instructions include storing each data object of a large data set within a separate node of a Merkle Tree including within a root node, leaf nodes, and nodes interconnecting the root node to the leaf nodes. The nodes of the Merkle Tree may be blockchained together with multiple blockchains that all have an initial blockchain block based on the root node of the Merkle Tree and a final blockchain block based on one of the different leaf nodes. The Merkle Tree may have an order “O” that remains constant for each level of the Merkle B-Tree, or have an order “O” that varies for at least one level of the Merkle B-Tree from the remaining levels.

Abstract: A system and method to distribute pesticides, fertilizers, water, and other materials on a farm with accuracy and precision is disclosed in order to combat the problems imposed on the environment due to over-fertilization and over use of pesticides. This system and method is a social networking control system in which multiple farms have independent grids of sensors capable of detecting the presence of pesticides, fertilizers, water, and other materials in the air, in the top-soil, and in the groundwater. These grids of sensors detect the location and concentration of these materials and reports them back to a social control system for analysis. The control system regulates the deposition of further chemicals through computer control of the chemical dispersal systems.

Abstract: The present specification discloses systems, methods, and a computer tangible medium storing instructions for a collision resistant process for thwarting birthday attacks. A birthday attack is a type of cryptographic attack that exploits mathematical collisions that result when different messages are hashed by a hash algorithm, but produce the same hash digest, which can render computer security systems vulnerable to hacking. By hashing files in different orders with the same hash algorithm, the systems, methods, and mediums disclosed herein can distinguish between identical files and different files that produce a collision when hashed in one order as the collision is not replicated when those different files are hashed in a different order as they are when the files are the same.

Abstract: An archival blockchain system is disclosed that includes a cache-tier storage level where data is stored before it has met a first aging criteria, a disk-tier storage level where the data is migrated to and stored within archival blockchain blocks after it has met the first aging criteria. When the archival blockchain blocks containing the data meet a second aging criteria they are migrated to a tape-tier storage level where the disk-tier archival blockchain blocks are stored within another archival blockchain block stored on the tape-tier. This archival blockchain system also includes a blockchain appliance in digital data communication with the cache-tier, disk-tier, and tape-tier storage levels that maintains a ledger that stores data pointers to the data stored on the cache-tier, disk-tier, and tape-tier storage levels to logically link them into a contiguous data set.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a computer tangible medium containing instructions to regulate creation and distribution of blockchain blocks based upon system utilization. The method includes determining utilization of a computer resource and creating a virtual blockchain block based on a data object when utilization exceeds a first threshold. The virtual blockchain block includes file metadata on the data object, but does not include blockchain cryptographic information. The method includes creating a real blockchain block based on the data object when utilization does not exceed the first threshold. The virtual blockchain block is converted to the real blockchain block when utilization drops below the first threshold.

Abstract: A system and method to distribute pesticides, fertilizers, water, and other materials on a farm with accuracy and precision is disclosed in order to combat the problems imposed on the environment due to over-fertilization and over use of pesticides. This system and method is a social networking control system in which multiple farms have independent grids of sensors capable of detecting the presence of pesticides, fertilizers, water, and other materials in the air, in the top-soil, and in the groundwater. These grids of sensors detect the location and concentration of these materials and reports them back to a social control system for analysis. The control system regulates the deposition of further chemicals through computer control of the chemical dispersal systems.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a blockchain computer application. This blockchain computer application includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that supports the organization and blockchaining of files to a blockchain. This GUI includes a virtual blockchain organizational tool onto which users can drag and drop files and organize them into various virtual blockchain blocks without permanently attaching those files to an actual blockchain until the virtual blockchain is converted to an actual blockchain. The conversion process preserves the organizational structure of the files set within the virtual blockchain. Files may also be automatically blockchained to a specific blockchain by dragging them and dropping them onto a blockchain application desktop icon. Files may also be automatically blockchained to specific blockchains by dragging them and dropping them onto a blockchain icon within the GUI where each blockchain icon is directly associated with a separate blockchain.

Abstract: The present patent application discloses a distributed network system for communications via messaging based on blockchains. Utilizing blockchains for network messaging allows for various security systems to ensure that messages are not intercepted in a man-in-the-middle attack, or other form of hacking. An electronic message formed of a blockchain includes a genesis block containing as data an electronic message and identifying information of a sender terminal that generated the electronic message. The blockchain also includes a plurality of blockchain blocks containing identifying information of devices that transmitted the electronic message through a distributed network. The blockchain also includes a recipient block containing identifying information of a recipient terminal to which the electronic message was sent.

Abstract: A Material eXchange Format (MXF) digital file generated by a digital electronic processor is disclosed that includes a generic container for a media file. The MXF file also includes a SDTI-CP (Serial Data Transport Interface-Content Package) compatible system item. The SDTI-CP compatible system item has a media file metadata and a blockchain hash digest information formed from the media file. The blockchain hash digest information of the media file may be a blockchain hash digest used to error check the media file. Alternatively, the blockchain hash digest information of the media file may be a link to a cloud-based blockchain hash digest used to error check the media file.

Abstract: Methods and systems for the direct-addressing of data and the indirect-addressing of data are disclosed using pointers based on two or more hash digests generated in different ways using the same data and the same hash algorithm along with a modulo of a prime number.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a blockchain computer application. This blockchain computer application includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that supports the organization and blockchaining of files to a blockchain. This GUI includes a virtual blockchain organizational tool onto which users can drag and drop files and organize them into various virtual blockchain blocks without permanently attaching those files to an actual blockchain until the virtual blockchain is converted to an actual blockchain. The conversion process preserves the organizational structure of the files set within the virtual blockchain. Files may also be automatically blockchained to a specific blockchain by dragging them and dropping them onto a blockchain application desktop icon. Files may also be automatically blockchained to specific blockchains by dragging them and dropping them onto a blockchain icon within the GUI where each blockchain icon is directly associated with a separate blockchain.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for storing a blockchain on a distributed network. The system includes a distributed network containing a plurality of nodes. The system stripes a blockchain into individual blocks where each individual block is separately encrypted and stored on a different node of the distributed network. The system forms a parity block from the individual blocks striped from the single blockchain. The parity block is separately encrypted and stored on a node of the distributed network separate from the other nodes storing the individual blocks for the blockchain. The system uses a blockchain distributed network map identifying where all of the individual blocks and the parity block are stored on the distributed network to reassemble all of the individual blocks into an undivided single blockchain.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a computer tangible medium storing instructions for a collision resistant process for signing a digital message with a digital signature using different hash digests derived from the same message data with the same hashing algorithm by hashing the message data in different ways. The collision resistant process protects networks from hacking attacks based different files having the same hash digest, commonly referred to as birthday attacks.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a process for selecting a desired audio codec from a plurality of audio codecs. This selection is done by creating a matched filter utilizing an original audio clip to determine a plurality of different power spectrums of the original audio clip when processed with a plurality of different audio codecs and identifying a selected audio codec from the plurality of different audio codecs having a highest power spectrum. A process for selecting an optimal audio codec for an audio clip is disclosed for media performance based on network constraints. This process includes determining a power spectrum of an original audio clip when processed with a plurality of different audio codecs utilizing a matched filter based on the original audio clip and selecting an optimal audio codec from the plurality of different audio codecs based on the power spectrum and a file size.