CN112801649B

CN112801649B - Flow statistical system, method and device based on block chain

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Publication number: CN112801649B
Application number: CN202110145903.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 段金明
Original assignee: Alipay Hangzhou Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Ant Blockchain Technology Shanghai Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-17
Filing date: 2020-04-17
Publication date: 2022-04-22
Anticipated expiration: 2040-04-17
Also published as: CN111461691A; WO2021209043A1; CN111461691B; CN112801649A

Abstract

The present specification provides a system, method and apparatus for block chain based traffic statistics; the system comprises: the voucher issuer block chain network submits a first transfer transaction for the service provider; the service provider submits a second transfer transaction aiming at the service requester to the blockchain network according to the service data requested by the service requester; under the condition that each node in the content distribution network is selected as a target distribution node, transmitting service data to a service request party; the service requester submits a third transfer transaction aiming at the target distribution node to the blockchain network according to the actual transmission quantity of the target distribution node aiming at the service data; the blockchain link transfers ownership of the traffic voucher equivalent to the first transaction amount from the voucher issuer to the service provider, transfers ownership of the traffic voucher equivalent to the second transaction amount from the service provider to the service requester, and transfers ownership of the traffic voucher equivalent to the third transaction amount from the service requester to the target distribution node.

Description

Flow statistical system, method and device based on block chain

Technical Field

One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of blockchain technologies, and in particular, to a system, a method, and an apparatus for block chain-based traffic statistics.

Background

The block chain technology, also called distributed ledger technology, is an emerging technology in which several computing devices participate in "accounting" together, and a complete distributed database is maintained together. The blockchain technology has been widely used in many fields due to its characteristics of decentralization, transparency, participation of each computing device in database records, and rapid data synchronization between computing devices.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system, a method and an apparatus for block chain based traffic statistics.

To achieve the above object, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide the following technical solutions:

according to a first aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, a traffic statistic system based on a blockchain is provided, including:

a voucher issuer for submitting a first reconveying transaction for a service provider to a blockchain network, the first reconveying transaction including a first transaction amount;

the service provider is used for submitting a second transfer transaction aiming at a service requester to a blockchain network according to service data requested by the service requester, and a second transaction amount of the second transfer transaction corresponds to the data volume of the service data;

each node in the content distribution network is used for transmitting the service data to the service requester under the condition that the node is selected as a target distribution node;

the service requester is used for submitting a third transfer transaction aiming at the target distribution node to a blockchain network according to the actual transmission quantity of the target distribution node aiming at the service data, wherein the third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to the actual transmission quantity;

a blockchain network, wherein blockchain nodes in the blockchain network are used for transferring ownership of the traffic voucher equivalent to the first transaction amount from the voucher issuer to the service provider, transferring ownership of the traffic voucher equivalent to the second transaction amount from the service provider to the service requester, and transferring ownership of the traffic voucher equivalent to the third transaction amount from the service requester to the target distribution node.

According to a second aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a traffic statistic method based on a blockchain, including:

the method comprises the steps that a voucher issuer creates a first transfer transaction aiming at a service provider, wherein the first transfer transaction comprises a first transaction amount;

the voucher issuer block chain network submits the first reconciled transaction for instructing block chain nodes in the block chain network to transfer ownership of a traffic voucher equivalent to the first transaction amount from the voucher issuer to a service provider; the ownership of the flow voucher which is equivalent to a second transaction amount contained in a second transfer transaction in the flow vouchers held by the service provider is transferred to a service requester by the blockchain node under the condition that the second transfer transaction is received, the second transfer transaction is submitted to a blockchain network by the service provider, and the second transaction amount corresponds to the data volume of the service data requested by the service requester;

and the ownership of a flow certificate which is equal to a third transaction amount contained in a third transfer transaction and is held by the service requester is transferred to a target distribution node by the blockchain node under the condition that the third transfer transaction is received, the third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network by the service requester, and the third transaction amount corresponds to the actual transmission amount of the service data transmitted to the service requester by the target distribution node.

According to a third aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a traffic statistic method based on a blockchain, including:

the service provider creates a second transfer transaction for the service requester, wherein a second transaction amount of the second transfer transaction corresponds to the data amount of the service data requested by the service requester; the method comprises the steps that ownership of a flow certificate which is equal to a first transaction amount contained in a first transfer transaction in the flow certificate held by a certificate issuer is transferred to a service provider by a block chain node in a block chain network under the condition that the first transfer transaction is received, and the first transfer transaction is submitted to the block chain network by the certificate issuer;

the service provider submits to a blockchain network the second transfer transaction instructing blockchain nodes in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equal to the second transaction amount from the service provider to the service requestor; and the ownership of a flow certificate which is equivalent to a third transaction amount contained in a third transfer transaction in the flow certificates held by the service requester is transferred to a target distribution node by the blockchain node under the condition that the third transfer transaction is received, the third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network by the service requester, and the third transaction amount corresponds to the actual transmission amount of the service data transmitted to the service requester by the target distribution node.

According to a fourth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, a traffic statistic method based on a blockchain is provided, including:

a target distribution node in a content distribution network transmits service data requested by a service provider to a service requester;

the ownership of a flow certificate which is equal to a third transaction amount contained in a third transfer transaction in the flow certificates held by the service requester is transferred to a target distribution node by a blockchain node in a blockchain network under the condition that the third transfer transaction is received, the third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network by the service requester, and the third transaction amount corresponds to the actual transmission amount of the service data transmitted to the service requester by the target distribution node;

the ownership of the flow voucher which is equivalent to a second transaction amount contained in a second transfer transaction in the flow vouchers held by the service provider is transferred to the service requester by the blockchain node under the condition that the second transfer transaction is received, the second transfer transaction is submitted to a blockchain network by the service provider, and the second transaction amount corresponds to the data amount of the service data requested by the service requester;

ownership of a traffic credential, of the traffic credential held by the credential issuer, that is equivalent to a first transaction amount included in a first reconveying transaction, is transferred by the blockchain node to the service provider upon receipt of the first reconveying transaction, which is submitted by the credential issuer to a blockchain network.

According to a fifth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, a traffic statistic method based on a blockchain is provided, including:

the service requester creates a third transfer transaction aiming at the target distribution node, wherein the third transfer transaction comprises a third transaction amount corresponding to the actual transmission amount of the service data requested by the service requester transmitted to the service requester by the target distribution node;

the service requester submits the third transfer transaction to a blockchain network, wherein the third transfer transaction is used for indicating that a blockchain link point in the blockchain network transfers the ownership of the flow voucher which is equal to the third transaction amount from the service requester to the target distribution node;

the ownership of the flow voucher which is equivalent to a second transaction amount contained in a second transfer transaction in the flow vouchers held by the service provider is transferred to the service requester by the blockchain node under the condition that the second transfer transaction is received, the second transfer transaction is submitted to a blockchain network by the service provider, and the second transaction amount corresponds to the data volume of the service data;

According to a sixth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, a traffic statistic method based on a blockchain is provided, including:

a blockchain link point in a blockchain network transfers ownership of a traffic voucher equivalent to a first transaction amount contained in a first reconciled transaction from a voucher issuer to a service provider, the first reconciled transaction submitted by the voucher issuer to the blockchain network;

the blockchain node transfers ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to a second transaction amount included in a second transfer transaction from the service provider to a service requestor, the second transfer transaction submitted by the service provider to a blockchain network, the second transaction amount corresponding to a data volume of service data requested by the service requestor;

transferring ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to a third transaction amount included in a third transfer transaction from the service requestor to a target distribution node, the third transfer transaction submitted by the service requestor to a blockchain network, the third transaction amount corresponding to an actual transmission amount of the service data by the target distribution node to the service requestor.

According to a seventh aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a block chain-based traffic statistic apparatus, including:

the system comprises a creating unit, a receiving unit and a processing unit, wherein the creating unit enables a voucher issuer to create a first transfer transaction aiming at a service provider, and the first transfer transaction comprises a first transaction amount;

a submitting unit, configured to cause the credential issuer to submit the first reconveying transaction to a blockchain network, where the first reconveying transaction is used to instruct blockchain nodes in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to the first transaction amount from the credential issuer to a service provider; the ownership of the flow voucher which is equivalent to a second transaction amount contained in a second transfer transaction in the flow vouchers held by the service provider is transferred to a service requester by the blockchain node under the condition that the second transfer transaction is received, the second transfer transaction is submitted to a blockchain network by the service provider, and the second transaction amount corresponds to the data volume of the service data requested by the service requester;

According to an eighth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a blockchain-based traffic statistic apparatus, including:

a creation unit that causes a service provider to create a second transfer transaction for a service requester, a second transaction amount of the second transfer transaction corresponding to a data amount of service data requested by the service requester; the method comprises the steps that ownership of a flow certificate which is equal to a first transaction amount contained in a first transfer transaction in the flow certificate held by a certificate issuer is transferred to a service provider by a block chain node in a block chain network under the condition that the first transfer transaction is received, and the first transfer transaction is submitted to the block chain network by the certificate issuer;

a submitting unit, configured to cause the service provider to submit the second transfer transaction to a blockchain network, where the second transfer transaction is used to instruct a blockchain node in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to the second transaction amount from the service provider to the service requester; and the ownership of a flow certificate which is equivalent to a third transaction amount contained in a third transfer transaction in the flow certificates held by the service requester is transferred to a target distribution node by the blockchain node under the condition that the third transfer transaction is received, the third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network by the service requester, and the third transaction amount corresponds to the actual transmission amount of the service data transmitted to the service requester by the target distribution node.

According to a ninth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a blockchain-based traffic statistic apparatus, including:

a transmission unit, which enables a target distribution node in a content distribution network to transmit service data requested by a service provider to a service requester;

According to a tenth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a blockchain-based traffic statistic apparatus including:

the creating unit enables a service requester to create a third transfer transaction aiming at a target distribution node, wherein the third transfer transaction comprises a third transaction amount corresponding to the actual transmission amount of the service data requested by the service requester to the service requester by the target distribution node;

a submitting unit, configured to cause the service requester to submit the third transfer transaction to a blockchain network, where the third transfer transaction is used to instruct a blockchain node in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equal to the third transaction amount from the service requester to the target distribution node;

According to an eleventh aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a blockchain-based traffic statistic apparatus including:

a first transfer unit that causes a blockchain link point in a blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic voucher equivalent to a first transaction amount included in a first reconciled transaction submitted by a voucher issuer to a blockchain network from the voucher issuer to a service provider;

a second transfer unit that causes the blockchain node to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to a second transaction amount included in a second transfer transaction from the service provider to a service requester, the second transfer transaction submitted by the service provider to a blockchain network, the second transaction amount corresponding to a data amount of service data requested by the service requester;

a third transfer unit to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to a third transaction amount included in a third transfer transaction from the service requestor to a target distribution node, the third transfer transaction submitted by the service requestor to a blockchain network, the third transaction amount corresponding to an actual transmission amount of the service data by the target distribution node to the service requestor.

According to a twelfth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided an electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor implements the method as described in any one of the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth aspects by executing the executable instructions.

According to a thirteenth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method according to any one of the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth aspects.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of a block chain-based traffic statistics system according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a method for block chain based traffic statistics according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 3 is an interaction diagram of a block chain-based traffic statistics method according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 4 is a block chain-based traffic statistics diagram according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 5-8 are flow charts of another blockchain-based traffic statistics method according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram of a device for block chain based traffic statistics according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 11-14 are block diagrams of another blockchain-based traffic statistics apparatus provided by an example embodiment.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all implementations consistent with one or more embodiments of the present specification. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of one or more embodiments of the specification, as detailed in the claims which follow.

It should be noted that: in other embodiments, the steps of the corresponding methods are not necessarily performed in the order shown and described herein. In some other embodiments, the method may include more or fewer steps than those described herein. Moreover, a single step described in this specification may be broken down into multiple steps for description in other embodiments; multiple steps described in this specification may be combined into a single step in other embodiments.

Blockchains are generally divided into three types: public chain (Public Blockchain), Private chain (Private Blockchain) and alliance chain (Consortium Blockchain). In addition, there are various types of combinations, such as private chain + federation chain, federation chain + public chain, and other different combinations. The most decentralized of these is the public chain. The public chain is represented by bitcoin and ether house, and the participators joining the public chain can read the data record on the chain, participate in transaction, compete for accounting right of new blocks, and the like. Furthermore, each participant (i.e., node) is free to join and leave the network and perform related operations. Private chains are the opposite, with the network's write rights controlled by an organization or organization and the data read rights specified by the organization. Briefly, a private chain can be a weakly centralized system with strictly limited and few participating nodes. This type of blockchain is more suitable for use within a particular establishment. A federation chain is a block chain between a public chain and a private chain, and "partial decentralization" can be achieved. Each node in a federation chain typically has a physical organization or organization corresponding to it; participants jointly maintain blockchain operation by authorizing to join the network and forming a benefit-related alliance.

Whether public, private, or alliance, may provide the functionality of an intelligent contract. An intelligent contract on a blockchain is a contract that can be executed on a blockchain system triggered by a transaction. An intelligent contract may be defined in the form of code.

Taking the ethernet as an example, the support user creates and invokes some complex logic in the ethernet network, which is the biggest challenge of ethernet to distinguish from bitcoin blockchain technology. The core of the ethernet plant as a programmable blockchain is the ethernet plant virtual machine (EVM), each ethernet plant node can run the EVM. The EVM is a well-behaved virtual machine, which means that a variety of complex logic can be implemented through it. The user issuing and invoking smart contracts in the etherhouse is running on the EVM. In fact, what the virtual machine directly runs is virtual machine code (virtual machine bytecode, hereinafter referred to as "bytecode"). The intelligent contracts deployed on the blockchain may be in the form of bytecodes.

It should be noted that the type of the request initiated on the blockchain by the user accessing the blockchain may specifically refer to a transaction (transaction) adopted in a conventional blockchain. Of course, the type of the request initiated on the blockchain by the user accessing the blockchain may be other than a transaction, and other forms of instructions, messages, and the like with a standard data structure may also be used. In the following embodiments, a request initiated on a blockchain by a user accessing the blockchain will be described as an example of a transaction.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a block chain-based traffic statistics system according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 1, the traffic statistic system in the present specification includes a voucher issuer 10, a service provider 20, a content distribution network 30, a service requester 40 and a blockchain network 50.

Among other things, the credential issuer 10 may issue a traffic credential (Token) that is used to account for traffic generated while data is being transmitted. For example, 1Token ═ 1M traffic; of course, the traffic of the 1Token peer may be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation, and for example, the traffic may be set to be 1Token — 10M traffic, which is not limited in this specification.

The service provider 20 provides service services to the outside and provides service data required by a user (i.e., a service requester) to the user in response to a request from the user. Taking a service provider as an example of a video platform, the video platform can provide a service for watching videos to registered users. The user can send a request for acquiring the video data to the video platform, so that the corresponding video data can be acquired for watching.

In order to realize the traffic statistics when transmitting the service data, the service provider 20 may obtain a certain number of traffic certificates from the certificate issuer 10 in advance as a measure for the traffic statistics when subsequently providing the service data.

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) 30 is interfaced with the service provider 20 and is operable to store service data of the service provider and to transmit service data requested from the service provider 20 to a service requester. When transmitting the service data, a distribution node (here, an Edge node) close to the service requester may be selected as a target distribution node in combination with an MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) technology, so as to instruct the target distribution node to transmit the service data to the service provider. Such as selecting node 30 n. The edge node is selected to transmit the service data to the service provider, so that the network pressure can be relieved, and the transmission efficiency is improved. Of course, the manner of selecting the target distribution node may refer to the related art, and this specification does not limit this. For example, a request of a user for acquiring service data is directed to a distribution node closest to a service requester in real time according to network traffic, connection of each node, load conditions, and distance to the service requester and response time, etc.

After the target distribution node is selected, the target distribution node transmits the service data to the service requester 40, and the data amount actually transmitted by the target distribution node needs to be counted in the data transmission process. Especially in the case of charging using the distribution network, for example, charging according to the flow of the distribution node, the data amount actually transmitted by the distribution node needs to be counted, so as to perform charging settlement accordingly.

The service requester 40 cooperates with the service provider 20, and a user as the service provider 20 requests the service provider 20 to acquire service data. Also taking the video platform as an example, the service requester 40 may register as a user or member of the video platform, and further obtain video data through the video platform.

Each blockchain node (such as node 501, node 502, etc.) in the blockchain network 50 may transfer ownership of each party's traffic credentials in response to a transfer transaction for the traffic credentials submitted by the credential issuer 10, the service provider 20, and the service requester 40, thereby enabling statistics of the true data transmission traffic of the target distribution node.

The following describes a traffic statistic scheme based on a blockchain in the present specification from the certificate issuer 10, the service provider 20, the content distribution network 30, the service requester 40, and the blockchain network 50, respectively.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for block chain based traffic statistics according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 2, the method applied to a credential issuer may include the following steps:

in step 202, the voucher issuer creates a first reconciled transaction for the service provider, the first reconciled transaction including a first transaction amount.

In this embodiment, in a scenario where traffic statistics needs to be performed on actual transmission amount of service data by a target distribution node, a credential issuer may transfer a certain amount of traffic credentials to a service provider in advance, and the traffic credentials are used for being transferred among parties in a subsequent service data transmission process to implement the traffic statistics. For example, the credential issuer may be an MEC management system that manages the MEC nodes collectively. Then, a blockchain node in the blockchain network may transfer ownership of the traffic credential, which is equivalent to the first transaction amount, from the credential issuer to the service provider in response to the first reconciled transaction. For example, a traffic credential equivalent to the first transaction amount stored in the credential issuer account is transferred from the credential issuer account to the service provider account.

Taking the blockchain model of the ethernet workshop as an example, each party registers a corresponding blockchain account in the blockchain network, and the blockchain account can be used for storing the flow certificate issued by the certificate issuer. Specifically, when each party needs to transfer the traffic voucher to another party, the party can submit a corresponding transfer transaction to the blockchain network, so that the blockchain node is instructed to transfer the traffic voucher in the corresponding blockchain account according to the transaction amount included in the transfer transaction.

In an ethernet fab, blockchain accounts may include external accounts, contract accounts, and the like. The external accounts are typically owned by a user (individual or organization), while the contract accounts correspond to smart contracts deployed in a blockchain. The structure of each type of account is similar, and may include, for example, a Nonce field, a Balance field, a Code field, a Storage field, and so on. The value of the Nonce field of each account starts from 0, and the value of the Nonce field is sequentially increased along with the transaction initiated by the corresponding account, so that the Nonce values contained in each transaction initiated by the account are different, thereby avoiding replay attack. The Balance field is used to hold the account Balance. The Code field is used to hold the Code of the smart contract, and thus the Code field of the external account is typically empty. The Storage field is used for storing the value of the account at the corresponding node in the state tree.

Based on the account model, the structure of the Balance field can be improved, and the flow voucher is stored in the Balance field. Or, the Balance field is further divided into a deposit account Balance and a flow certificate. Alternatively, other fields are additionally added for storing the traffic credentials. Of course, any other way of adding or improving the field may be used to store the traffic credential, and this specification does not limit this.

Of course, other blockchain models may also be employed, such as the UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) model. A typical application scenario of the UTXO model is a bitcoin block chain, where assets on the chain under the model exist in the form of transaction outputs, and when there is an unspent transaction output for a transaction, the unspent transaction output is owned by the holder of the private key.

Step 204, the certificate issuer submits the first transfer transaction to a blockchain network, and the first transfer transaction is used for instructing blockchain nodes in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of the traffic certificate equivalent to the first transaction amount from the certificate issuer to a service provider; and the ownership of the flow voucher which is equivalent to a second transaction amount contained in a second transfer transaction in the flow vouchers held by the service provider is transferred to the service requester by the blockchain node under the condition that the second transfer transaction is received, the second transfer transaction is submitted to a blockchain network by the service provider, and the second transaction amount corresponds to the data volume of the service data requested by the service requester.

Wherein ownership of a traffic credential, which is equivalent to a third transaction amount included in a third transfer transaction, among the traffic credentials held by the service requester is transferred by the blockchain node to a target distribution node in the case that the third transfer transaction is received, the third transfer transaction is submitted by the service requester to a blockchain network, and the third transaction amount corresponds to an actual transmission amount of the service data transmitted by the target distribution node to the service requester.

In this embodiment, a flow voucher is pre-transferred to a service provider based on a voucher issuer, and when receiving an acquisition request for service data sent by a service requester, the service provider may determine a data volume of the service data, and then determine the number of the flow voucher equal to the data volume as a second transaction amount (that is, the second transaction amount corresponds to the data volume of the service data), and submit a second transfer transaction containing the second transaction amount to the blockchain network. The blockchain node may forward to the service requestor, in response to the second transfer transaction, one of the traffic credentials held by the service provider that is equal to the second transaction amount, i.e., the traffic credentials are instead held by the service requestor. For example, if the service data is 100M, and 1Token is 1M traffic, the second transaction amount is 100, and after the above transfer operation, the service requester will hold 100 tokens from the service provider. In other words, through the above-mentioned transfer operation, the service requester will hold the traffic credential equivalent to the data amount of the requested service data, that is, the data amount of the service data subsequently acquired by the service requester should be equivalent to the traffic credential transferred by the service provider, which can be understood as the data amount equivalent to the traffic credential held by the service requester at this time, which is the data amount expected to be subsequently received. Therefore, the flow certificate held by the service requester can be used for comparing with the data volume of the service data received subsequently, so as to measure whether the actual transmission volume of the service data is real or not.

Further, the service provider or the MEC management system selects a target distribution node from the distribution network, and transmits the service data to the service requester. And the service requester may determine an actual transmission amount of the service data by the target distribution node when receiving the service data transmitted by the target distribution node, for example, taking a data amount of data actually received from the target distribution node as the actual transmission amount. Then, the amount of traffic credentials that equates to the actual transfer volume is determined as a third transaction amount (i.e., the third transaction amount corresponds to the actual transfer volume), and a third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network that includes the third transaction amount. The blockchain node may forward to the target distribution node, in response to the third transfer transaction, traffic credentials of the traffic credentials held by the service requestor that are equal to the third transaction amount, i.e., the traffic credentials are instead held by the service requestor. For the above example, the data amount of the data actually received by the service requester from the target distribution node is 95M, and then the third transaction amount is 95, and after the above transfer operation, the target distribution node will hold 95 tokens from the service requester.

As can be seen from the foregoing embodiments, by transferring the traffic credential equivalent to the data volume of the service data to the service requester, the service requester can transfer the traffic credential equivalent to the actual transmission volume of the service data from the target distribution node among the held traffic credentials to the target distribution node according to the actual transmission volume of the service data from the target distribution node. Then, after the target distribution node finishes transmitting the service data, the held traffic voucher is equal to the actual transmission traffic, so that the traffic of the service data transmitted by the target distribution node can be counted according to the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node. Compared with the method that the target distribution node counts the flow directly, the process of transferring the flow certificate according to the actual transmission amount received by the service requester can prevent the target distribution node from forging the actual transmission amount. Meanwhile, the traffic certificate transferred to the service requester is equal to the actual size of the service data, so that the service requester can be prevented from transferring the traffic certificate exceeding the actual size of the service data to the target distribution node (the service requester does not have enough traffic certificate), namely the service requester is prevented from assisting the target distribution node to forge the actual transmission volume.

In this embodiment, in a scenario of charging at an edge node, for example, charging is performed according to a traffic of a distribution node, the MEC management system may serve as a credential issuer to issue a traffic credential to count an amount of data actually transmitted by the distribution node, so as to perform charging settlement accordingly. In order to improve the accuracy and security of charging, a way of signing the traffic voucher can be introduced.

As an exemplary embodiment, parties register on the blockchain network, obtaining the on-chain identity and asymmetric key pair created for themselves by the blockchain network. Then, the above-mentioned way of signing the traffic credential may be: the flow certificate transferred from the certificate issuer is signed by the private key of the certificate issuer; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service request party is signed by a private key of the service request party; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by the private key of the target distribution node. For example, all the traffic certificates held by each party are signed by using the corresponding private keys, so as to prove the source of the traffic certificates in the process of transferring the traffic certificates.

Based on the above-mentioned mechanism for signing the traffic voucher, when the traffic transmitted by the target distribution node is settled, the balance can be measured by the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node. Therefore, the flow certificate held by the target distribution node needs to be checked, and the flow certificate held by the target distribution node is ensured to be obtained according to the process of the transfer in the embodiment shown in the above step 202 and step 204. And combining the transfer process of the flow certificate and the mechanism for signing the flow certificate, the flow certificate finally transferred to the target distribution node is signed by the private keys of the certificate issuer, the service provider, the service requester and the target distribution node in sequence. Therefore, all the traffic certificates held by the target distribution node can be verified and passed by the public keys of the certificate issuer, the service provider, the service requester and the target distribution node respectively without the occurrence of forged traffic certificates. In other words, the traffic voucher signed by the private keys of the voucher issuer, the service provider, the service requester and the target distribution node can be used for measuring the actual transmission amount of the target distribution node, and further, the cost settlement can be carried out on the target distribution node.

In this embodiment, in the process of transmitting the service data to the service requester by the target distribution node, after the target distribution node has transmitted all the service data, the service requester initiates a third transfer transaction according to the data volume of the received service data. Or, the target distribution node divides the service data into a plurality of service subdata and transmits each service subdata to the service requester. Correspondingly, the service requester submits a third transfer transaction to the blockchain network under the condition of receiving the service sub data each time, wherein the third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to the data volume of the received service sub data. For example, 100M service data is divided into 10M service sub data for transmission. Then, after receiving every 10M service sub-data, the service requester must initiate a third transfer transaction with a transaction amount of 10, so as to transfer 10 tokens to the target distribution node.

Further, the service requester may have a situation that the data volume of the transaction amount representative of the initiated transfer transaction is smaller than the actual transmission volume of the target distribution node, so that the data volume corresponding to all the traffic certificates finally held by the target distribution node is smaller than the actual transmission volume. In order to prevent the service requester from suffering the above-mentioned malicious behavior, in the scenario of dividing the service subdata for transmission, after the service subdata is transmitted each time by the target distribution node, a newly added data volume corresponding to the newly added flow certificate after the last transmission of the service subdata and the transmission data volume of the service subdata transmitted this time are determined, and when the newly added data volume is smaller than the transmission data volume, the transmission of the remaining service subdata to the service requester is stopped, thereby stopping loss in time and avoiding the service requester from continuing doing malicious behavior. For the above example, assuming that after the target distribution node transmits 10M of the service sub-data to the service requester, the transaction amount of the transfer transaction initiated by the service requester to the block chain is 9, then after the transfer transaction is executed, the newly added traffic voucher of the target distribution node is 9 tokens, and the actually newly added traffic voucher is 10 tokens. Therefore, when the target distribution node determines that the number of the newly added traffic certificates held by the target distribution node does not reach 10, the target distribution node stops transmitting the remaining untransmitted service sub-data to the service request.

And aiming at the mode of dividing the service data, the target distribution node can divide the service data into a plurality of service subdata according to the preset dimensionality. Wherein, preset dimension includes any one of: the average data volume of the service sub data, the total number of the service sub data and the data type. For example, the data volume of the service data is 200M, and the service data is divided into 10 service sub data of 20M on average according to the average data volume of the service sub data of 20M. Or, the service data is divided into 5 service sub data of 40M on average according to the total number of the service sub data being 5. Or, assuming that the service data is a picture and the service data includes pictures in multiple formats such as bmp, jpg, png, tif, gif, and the like, the service data is divided according to the picture format. Or, assuming that the service data includes data of multiple file types such as video, picture, audio, document, etc., the service data is divided according to the file types. Of course, the basis of the division can be flexibly set according to actual requirements, and the description does not limit the division.

In this embodiment, the service provider may further perform, according to the identity information sent by the service requester, authorization verification on the acquisition authorization of the service requester for the service data, and use the authorization verification as a precondition for submitting the second transfer transaction to the blockchain network.

For ease of understanding, the block chain based traffic statistics scheme of the present description is described in detail below with reference to fig. 3-4.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is an interaction diagram of a block chain-based traffic statistics method according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 3, the interactive process may include the following steps:

step 302, the credential issuer submits a first reconveying transaction to the blockchain node.

In this embodiment, each party may register on the blockchain network, generate an on-chain identity for the blockchain network to bind with the held traffic credential, and generate an asymmetric key pair for subsequent signature of the traffic credential using the private key thereof and signature verification using the public key. For example, in the case of an account model, the on-chain identity is an account address; in the case of the UTXO model, the on-chain identity is the wallet address. And for the asymmetric encryption algorithm for generating the public key and the private key, for example, RSA, Elgamal, knapsack algorithm, Rabin, D-H, ECC (elliptic curve encryption algorithm), etc. may be used.

In this embodiment, the credential issuer may be an MEC management system that performs unified management on MEC nodes, and is used to issue tokens for measuring traffic. The certificate issuer can transfer a certain number of tokens to the service provider in advance, and the tokens are used for being transferred among all parties in the subsequent service data transmission process so as to realize flow statistics and charging settlement. For example, the service provider purchases a certain number of tokens from the voucher issuer over the downlink channel for subsequent transfer to the service provider. Then, the voucher issuer creates a first reconciled transaction containing a first transaction amount (indicating the number of tokens to be transferred) as the number of tokens purchased by the service provider to the voucher issuer and submits the first reconciled transaction to the block link point.

Wherein the traffic credentials held by each party are signed with the private key of the respective holding party. For example, after transferring Token into an account, the blockchain node may use the private key of the account to sign the transferred Token. Alternatively, the blockchain node may uniformly sign the Token to be transferred out by using the private key of the account before transferring the Token out of the account. In summary, it is sufficient to ensure that the Token that each party has ever been signed by the private key of the holding party, so that the origin of Token can be proved through signature verification. Taking the certificate issuer as an example, as shown in fig. 4, the certificate issuer 10, the service provider 20, the service requester 40 and the target distribution node 30 in the figure represent accounts of the parties respectively, and P represents a roll-out Token (hereinafter referred to as Token P).

The blockchain node may sign all the tokens held by the credential issuer 10 with the private key of the credential issuer 10, or sign the Token to be transferred out with the private key of the credential issuer 10 before transferring the Token held by the credential issuer 10 out to the account of the service provider 20. Through the above signing operation, Token P transferred to the account of the service provider 20 is guaranteed to be signed by the private key of the certificate issuer 10.

Block link points are transferred to the service provider, step 304.

In this embodiment, a blockchain node in the blockchain network may transfer a number of tokens in the voucher issuer account that matches the first transaction amount into an account with the service provider in response to the first reconciled transaction. As shown in fig. 5, it can be known from the above signature mechanism that Token P transferred from the account of the certificate issuer 10 is signed by the private key of the certificate issuer 10. Further, the blockchain node may sign the Token transferred to the account of the service provider by using a private key of the service provider.

Step 306, the service requester sends an acquisition request for the service data to the service provider.

In step 308, the service provider authenticates the service requester.

Taking a video scene as an example, a user sends an acquisition request for a certain video to a video platform, wherein the acquisition request includes account information of the user. The video may then authenticate the user based on the account information, such as whether the user is engaged in membership services, whether the user is signed, etc. Of course, the service provider may further determine whether the service requester has a chain identity registered on the blockchain, and return a corresponding prompt message to prompt the user if the service requester has no registration.

At step 310, the service provider submits a second transfer transaction to the blockchain node.

For example, if the service data is 100M, and 1Token is 1M traffic, the second transaction amount is 100, and after the above transfer operation, the service requester will hold 100 tokens from the service provider.

At step 312, the block link points transfer money to the service requester.

In this embodiment, after the authentication for the service requester is passed, the data volume of the service data requested by the service requester may be determined, and then the number of the traffic voucher equal to the data volume is determined as the second transaction amount, and the second transfer transaction including the second transaction amount is submitted to the blockchain network. And after receiving the second transfer transaction, the blockchain node transfers the Token with the quantity matched with the second transaction amount in the account of the service provider into the account of the service requester. As shown in fig. 5, it can be known from the above signature mechanism that Token P transferred from the account of the service provider 20 is signed by the private key of the service provider 20. Further, the blockchain node may sign the Token transferred to the account of the service requester with the private key of the service requester 40.

Step 314, the service provider sends a transmission instruction to the target distribution node.

In this embodiment, the service provider selects a target distribution node from the distribution network, and further sends a transmission instruction to the target distribution node to instruct the target distribution node to transmit the service data to the service requester.

In step 316, the target distribution node transmits the service data to the service requester.

In this embodiment, the target distribution node may divide the service data into a plurality of service sub-data, and transmit each service sub-data to the service requester. In this case, the service requester is required to initiate a third transfer transaction according to the data amount of the received service data after receiving each service data. For example, 100M service data is divided into 10M service sub data for transmission. Then, after receiving every 10M service sub-data, the service requester must initiate a third transfer transaction with a transaction amount of 10, so as to transfer 10 tokens to the target distribution node.

Further, the service requester may present a malicious situation. For the above example, after the target distribution node transmits the 10M service sub-data to the service requester, the target distribution node may submit the query transaction for the Token owned by the target distribution node to the block link node, so as to obtain the Token owned by the target distribution node. Assuming that the transaction amount of the transfer transaction initiated by the service requester to the blockchain is 9, after the transfer transaction is executed, the newly added traffic voucher of the target distribution node is 9 tokens, and the actually newly added traffic voucher is 10 tokens. Therefore, when the target distribution node determines that the number of the newly added traffic certificates held by the target distribution node does not reach 10, the target distribution node stops transmitting the remaining untransmitted service subdata to the service request, thereby stopping loss in time and avoiding the continuous operation of the service requester.

At step 318, the service requester submits a third transfer transaction to the blockchain node.

At step 320, the blockchain node transfers the transfer to the target distribution node.

As shown in fig. 4, it can be known from the above signature mechanism that Token P transferred from the account of the service requester 40 is signed by the private key of the service requester 40. Further, after the blockchain node completes the transfer to the target distribution node, the Token transferred to the account of the target distribution node 30 may be signed by the private key of the target distribution node 30. Then, after the above Token transferring process, all tokens held by the target distribution node 30 are finally signed by the private keys of the credential issuer, the service provider, the service requester and the target distribution node in sequence.

Furthermore, when the settlement is performed on the traffic transmitted by the target distribution node, the settlement can be measured by the traffic certificate held by the target distribution node. Therefore, the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node needs to be checked. For example, a credential issuer may formulate a cost conversion criteria for a traffic credential. For example, 10Token ═ 0.01 yuan. Of course, the specification does not limit the specific contents of the fee conversion standard. The voucher issuer can submit a settlement transaction aiming at the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node to the blockchain network, and then the blockchain nodes in the blockchain network can respond to the settlement transaction, respectively adopt public keys of the voucher issuer, the service provider, the service requester and the target distribution node to check and sign the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node, and carry out cost settlement on the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node according to a cost conversion standard aiming at the traffic voucher issued by the voucher issuer under the condition that all the checks are passed. Of course, the logic for performing the above described signature verification and settlement operations may be written into the chain code to perform the signature verification and settlement operations directly from the block link point through the execution of the chain code; the intelligent contracts can also be written into and deployed on the blockchain. The settlement transaction is then used to invoke the intelligent contract, and the block nodes perform the signature verification and settlement operations by executing the code in the intelligent contract.

Corresponding to the above embodiment of the credential issuer side, this specification also provides embodiments of the service provider side, the service requester side, the target distribution node side, and the block chain node side, and the description related to the embodiment of the credential issuer side may also be applicable to the above embodiments of other sides, which is not described in detail below.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating another method for block chain based traffic statistics according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 5, the method is applied to a service provider, and may include the following steps:

step 502, a service provider creates a second transfer transaction for a service requester, a second transaction amount of the second transfer transaction corresponding to a data amount of service data requested by the service requester; ownership of a traffic credential, of the traffic credential held by the credential issuer, that is equivalent to a first transaction amount included in a first reconveying transaction, is transferred by a blockchain nexus in a blockchain network to the service provider upon receipt of the first reconveying transaction, which is submitted by the credential issuer to the blockchain network.

Step 504, the service provider submitting the second transfer transaction to a blockchain network, the second transfer transaction being used for instructing blockchain nodes in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of the traffic voucher equivalent to the second transaction amount from the service provider to the service requester; and the ownership of a flow certificate which is equivalent to a third transaction amount contained in a third transfer transaction in the flow certificates held by the service requester is transferred to a target distribution node by the blockchain node under the condition that the third transfer transaction is received, the third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network by the service requester, and the third transaction amount corresponds to the actual transmission amount of the service data transmitted to the service requester by the target distribution node.

As previously described, the traffic credentials that are rolled out from the credential issuer are signed with the credential issuer's private key; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node;

and the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node is checked and signed by the block link node by adopting public keys of the voucher issuer, the service provider, the service requester and the target distribution node respectively, and the fee settlement is carried out according to a fee conversion standard aiming at the traffic voucher issued by the voucher issuer under the condition that all the checks are passed.

As mentioned above, the service data is divided into a plurality of service sub-data by the target distribution node and transmitted to the service requester, the third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network by the service requester under the condition that the service sub-data is received each time, and a third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to the data amount of the service sub-data received by the service requester.

As described above, after the target distribution node finishes transmitting the service sub data each time, the target distribution node stops transmitting the remaining service sub data to the service requester under the condition that a newly added data volume is smaller than the transmission data volume, where the newly added data volume is a data volume corresponding to a traffic certificate newly added by the target distribution node after the last transmission of the service sub data is finished, and the transmission data volume is a data volume of the service sub data transmitted by the target distribution node this time.

As described above, the service data is divided into a plurality of service sub-data by the target distribution node according to a preset dimension, where the preset dimension includes any one of the following: the average data volume of the service sub data, the total number of the service sub data and the data type.

As described above, the service provider performs authorization verification on the service requester for the acquisition authorization of the service data according to the identity information sent by the service requester, and the authorization verification is used as a precondition for submitting the second transfer transaction to the blockchain network.

Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating another method for block chain based traffic statistics according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 6, the method applied to the target distribution node may include the following steps:

step 602, a target distribution node in a content distribution network transmits service data requested by a service requester to a service provider.

As described above, the transmitting, by the target distribution node, the service data requested by the service provider from the service requester to the service requester includes:

the target distribution node divides the service data into a plurality of service subdata and transmits each service subdata to the service request party; and submitting the third transfer transaction to a blockchain network by the service requester under the condition that the service requester receives the service subdata each time, wherein the third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to the data volume of the service subdata received by the service requester.

As mentioned above, the method further comprises:

after the target distribution node finishes transmitting the service subdata each time, determining a newly increased data volume corresponding to a newly increased held flow certificate after the last transmission of the service subdata and a transmission data volume of the service subdata transmitted this time;

and the target distribution node stops transmitting the residual service subdata to the service request party under the condition that the newly increased data volume is smaller than the transmission data volume.

As described above, the dividing, by the target distribution node, the service data into a plurality of service sub data includes:

the target distribution node divides the service data into a plurality of service subdata according to a preset dimension, wherein the preset dimension comprises any one of the following: the average data volume of the service sub data, the total number of the service sub data and the data type.

As mentioned above, the precondition for the service provider to submit the second transfer transaction to the blockchain network includes: and the service provider performs authority verification on the acquisition authority of the service requester for the service data according to the identity information sent by the service requester, and the authority verification is passed.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating another method for block chain based traffic statistics according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 7, the method applied to the service requester may include the following steps:

step 702, a service requester creates a third transfer transaction for a target distribution node, wherein a third transfer transaction amount contained in the third transfer transaction corresponds to an actual transmission amount of service data requested by the service requester to the service requester by the target distribution node;

step 704, the service requester submits the third transfer transaction to a blockchain network, the third transfer transaction is used for instructing blockchain nodes in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of the traffic voucher equivalent to the third transfer amount from the service requester to the target distribution node;

As described above, the service data is divided into a plurality of service sub data by the target distribution node and transmitted to the service requester; the service requester submits the third transfer transaction to a blockchain network, including:

and submitting the third transfer transaction to a blockchain network by the service requester under the condition of receiving the service subdata each time, wherein the third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to the data volume of the received service subdata.

Referring to fig. 8, fig. 8 is a flowchart illustrating another method for block chain based traffic statistics according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 8, the method applied to the blockchain node may include the following steps:

step 802, a blockchain link point in a blockchain network transfers ownership of a traffic voucher equivalent to a first transaction amount contained in a first reconveying transaction from a voucher issuer to a service provider, the first reconveying transaction submitted by the voucher issuer to the blockchain network;

step 804, the blockchain node transfers ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to a second transaction amount included in a second transfer transaction from the service provider to a service requestor, the second transfer transaction submitted by the service provider to a blockchain network, the second transaction amount corresponding to a data volume of service data requested by the service requestor;

step 806, transferring ownership of a traffic credential, which is equivalent to a third transaction amount included in a third transfer transaction, from the service requestor to a target distribution node, the third transfer transaction submitted by the service requestor to a blockchain network, the third transaction amount corresponding to an actual transmission amount of the service data by the target distribution node to the service requestor.

As previously described, the traffic credentials that are rolled out from the credential issuer are signed with the credential issuer's private key; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node; the method further comprises the following steps:

and the block link node checks the flow certificates held by the target distribution nodes by adopting the public keys of the certificate issuer, the service provider, the service requester and the target distribution nodes respectively, and performs cost settlement on the flow certificates held by the target distribution nodes according to the cost conversion standard aiming at the flow certificates issued by the certificate issuer under the condition that all the checks pass.

Corresponding to the above method embodiments, the present specification further provides an embodiment of a block chain-based traffic statistic apparatus.

The embodiments of the block chain based traffic statistic apparatus in this specification can be applied to electronic devices. The device embodiments may be implemented by software, or by hardware, or by a combination of hardware and software. Taking a software implementation as an example, as a logical device, the device is formed by reading, by a processor of the electronic device where the device is located, a corresponding computer program instruction in the nonvolatile memory into the memory for operation.

Referring to fig. 9 from a hardware level, fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 9, at the hardware level, the apparatus includes a processor 902, an internal bus 904, a network interface 906, a memory 908, and a non-volatile memory 910, but may also include hardware required for other services. The processor 902 reads a corresponding computer program from the non-volatile memory 910 into the memory 908 and then runs the computer program to form a block chain based traffic statistic device on a logical level. Of course, besides software implementation, the one or more embodiments in this specification do not exclude other implementations, such as logic devices or combinations of software and hardware, and so on, that is, the execution subject of the following processing flow is not limited to each logic unit, and may also be hardware or logic devices.

Referring to fig. 10, in a software implementation, the block chain based traffic statistic apparatus may include:

a creating unit 1002, configured to enable a credential issuer to create a first reconciled transaction for a service provider, where the first reconciled transaction includes a first transaction amount;

a submitting unit 1004 that causes the credential issuer to submit the first reconveying transaction to a blockchain network, the first reconveying transaction being for instructing blockchain nodes in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to the first transaction amount from the credential issuer to a service provider; the ownership of the flow voucher which is equivalent to a second transaction amount contained in a second transfer transaction in the flow vouchers held by the service provider is transferred to a service requester by the blockchain node under the condition that the second transfer transaction is received, the second transfer transaction is submitted to a blockchain network by the service provider, and the second transaction amount corresponds to the data volume of the service data requested by the service requester;

Optionally, the traffic certificate transferred from the certificate issuer is signed by a private key of the certificate issuer; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node;

Optionally, the service data is divided into a plurality of service sub-data by the target distribution node and transmitted to the service requester, the third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network by the service requester under the condition that the service sub-data is received each time, and a third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to the data volume of the service sub-data received by the service requester.

Optionally, after the target distribution node finishes transmitting the service subdata each time, the target distribution node stops transmitting the remaining service subdata to the service requester under the condition that a newly added data volume is smaller than a transmission data volume, where the newly added data volume is a data volume corresponding to a newly added held flow certificate after the target distribution node finishes transmitting the service subdata for the last time, and the transmission data volume is a data volume of the service subdata transmitted by the target distribution node this time.

Optionally, the service data is divided into a plurality of service sub-data by the target distribution node according to a preset dimension, where the preset dimension includes any one of: the average data volume of the service sub data, the total number of the service sub data and the data type.

Optionally, the precondition that the service provider submits the second transfer transaction to the blockchain network includes: and the service provider performs authority verification on the acquisition authority of the service requester for the service data according to the identity information sent by the service requester, and the authority verification is passed.

Referring to fig. 11, in another software implementation, the block chain based traffic statistic device may include:

a creating unit 1102 for a service provider to create a second transfer transaction for a service requester, a second transaction amount of the second transfer transaction corresponding to a data amount of service data requested by the service requester; the method comprises the steps that ownership of a flow certificate which is equal to a first transaction amount contained in a first transfer transaction in the flow certificate held by a certificate issuer is transferred to a service provider by a block chain node in a block chain network under the condition that the first transfer transaction is received, and the first transfer transaction is submitted to the block chain network by the certificate issuer;

a submitting unit 1104 for causing the service provider to submit the second transfer transaction to a blockchain network, the second transfer transaction being for instructing blockchain nodes in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of the traffic credential equivalent to the second transaction amount from the service provider to the service requester; and the ownership of a flow certificate which is equivalent to a third transaction amount contained in a third transfer transaction in the flow certificates held by the service requester is transferred to a target distribution node by the blockchain node under the condition that the third transfer transaction is received, the third transfer transaction is submitted to the blockchain network by the service requester, and the third transaction amount corresponds to the actual transmission amount of the service data transmitted to the service requester by the target distribution node.

Optionally, the method further includes:

and an authentication unit 1106, configured to enable the service provider to perform, according to the identity information sent by the service requester, right verification on the acquisition right of the service requester for the service data, and use the right verification as a precondition for submitting the second transfer transaction to the blockchain network.

Referring to fig. 12, in another software implementation, the device for block chain based traffic statistics may include:

a transmission unit 1202, configured to enable a target distribution node in a content distribution network to transmit service data requested by a service provider to a service requester;

Optionally, the transmission unit 1202 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the transmission unit 1202 is further configured to:

Referring to fig. 13, in another software implementation, the device for block chain based traffic statistics may include:

a creating unit 1302, configured to enable a service requester to create a third transfer transaction for a target distribution node, where a third transfer transaction includes a third transaction amount corresponding to an actual transmission amount of service data requested by the service requester to the service requester by the target distribution node;

a submitting unit 1304, configured to cause the service requester to submit the third transfer transaction to a blockchain network, where the third transfer transaction is used to instruct a blockchain node in the blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to the third transaction amount from the service requester to the target distribution node;

Optionally, the service data is divided into a plurality of service sub data by the target distribution node and transmitted to the service requester; the submission unit 1304 is specifically configured to:

Referring to fig. 14, in another software implementation, the device for block chain based traffic statistics may include:

a first transfer unit 1402 for causing a blockchain node in a blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic voucher equivalent to a first transaction amount included in a first reconciled transaction submitted by a voucher issuer to a blockchain network from the voucher issuer to a service provider;

a second transfer unit 1404 that causes the blockchain node to transfer ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to a second transaction amount included in a second transfer transaction from the service provider to a service requestor, the second transfer transaction submitted by the service provider to a blockchain network, the second transaction amount corresponding to a data amount of service data requested by the service requestor;

a third transfer unit 1406 for causing transfer of ownership of a traffic credential equivalent to a third transaction amount contained in a third transfer transaction from the service requestor to a target distribution node, the third transfer transaction submitted by the service requestor to a blockchain network, the third transaction amount corresponding to an actual transmission amount of the service data by the target distribution node to the service requestor.

Optionally, the traffic certificate transferred from the certificate issuer is signed by a private key of the certificate issuer; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node; the device further comprises:

a signature verification unit 1408 configured to cause the block link node to perform signature verification on the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node using the public keys of the voucher issuer, the service provider, the service requester and the target distribution node, respectively, and to perform cost settlement on the traffic voucher held by the target distribution node according to a cost conversion standard for the traffic voucher issued by the voucher issuer when all the signatures pass.

The systems, devices, modules or units illustrated in the above embodiments may be implemented by a computer chip or an entity, or by a product with certain functions. One typical implementation device is a computer. In particular, the computer may be, for example, a personal computer, a laptop computer, a cellular telephone, a camera phone, a smartphone, a personal digital assistant, a media player, a navigation device, an email device, a game console, a tablet computer, a wearable device, or a combination of any of these devices.

For convenience of description, the above devices are described as being divided into various units by function, and are described separately. Of course, the functions of the various elements may be implemented in the same one or more software and/or hardware implementations of the present description.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present description may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the description may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the description may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The description has been presented with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the description. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

This description may be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The specification may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote computer storage media including memory storage devices.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks. In a typical configuration, a computer includes one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory.

The memory may include forms of volatile memory in a computer readable medium, Random Access Memory (RAM) and/or non-volatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of a computer-readable medium.

Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic disk storage, quantum memory, graphene-based storage media or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.

It should also be noted that the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The foregoing description has been directed to specific embodiments of this disclosure. Other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. In some cases, the actions or steps recited in the claims may be performed in a different order than in the embodiments and still achieve desirable results. In addition, the processes depicted in the accompanying figures do not necessarily require the particular order shown, or sequential order, to achieve desirable results. In some embodiments, multitasking and parallel processing may also be possible or may be advantageous.

The terminology used in the description of the one or more embodiments is for the purpose of describing the particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the description of the one or more embodiments. As used in one or more embodiments of the present specification and the appended claims, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein refers to and encompasses any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used in one or more embodiments of the present description to describe various information, such information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one type of information from another. For example, first information may also be referred to as second information, and similarly, second information may also be referred to as first information, without departing from the scope of one or more embodiments herein. The word "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at … …" or "when … …" or "in response to a determination", depending on the context.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, and is not intended to limit the scope of the one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the one or more embodiments of the present disclosure should be included in the scope of the one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A blockchain based traffic statistics system, comprising:

a voucher issuer for submitting a first reconveying transaction for a service provider to a blockchain network, the first reconveying transaction including a first transaction amount corresponding to a number of traffic vouchers purchased by the service provider to the voucher issuer;

2. A traffic statistical method based on a block chain comprises the following steps:

the method comprises the steps that a voucher issuer creates a first transfer transaction for a service provider, wherein the first transfer transaction comprises a first transaction amount, and the first transaction amount corresponds to the quantity of flow vouchers purchased by the service provider to the voucher issuer;

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a traffic credential that is transferred from the credential issuer is signed with a private key of the credential issuer; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node;

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the service data is divided by the target distribution node into a number of service sub-data for transmission to the service requestor, wherein the third transfer transaction is submitted by the service requestor to a blockchain network each time service sub-data is received, and wherein a third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to a data volume of the service sub-data received by the service requestor.

5. A traffic statistical method based on a block chain comprises the following steps:

the service provider creates a second transfer transaction for the service requester, wherein a second transaction amount of the second transfer transaction corresponds to the data amount of the service data requested by the service requester; ownership of a traffic credential, of a traffic credential held by a credential issuer, equal to a first transaction amount included in a first reconveying transaction, transferred by a blockchain nexus in a blockchain network to the service provider upon receipt of the first reconveying transaction, the first transaction amount corresponding to a number of traffic credentials purchased by the service provider to the credential issuer, the first reconveying transaction submitted by the credential issuer to the blockchain network;

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a traffic credential that is transferred from the credential issuer is signed with a private key of the credential issuer; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node;

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the service data is divided into a number of sub-service data by the target distribution node for transmission to the service requestor, wherein the third transfer transaction is submitted by the service requestor to the blockchain network each time sub-service data is received, and wherein a third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to a data volume of the sub-service data received by the service requestor.

8. A traffic statistical method based on a block chain comprises the following steps:

ownership of a traffic voucher, of the traffic vouchers held by the voucher issuer, which is equivalent to a first transaction amount comprised in a first reconciled transaction, corresponding to the number of traffic vouchers purchased by the service provider to the voucher issuer, is transferred by the blockchain node to the service provider upon receipt of the first reconciled transaction, which is submitted by the voucher issuer to the blockchain network.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein a traffic credential that is transferred from the credential issuer is signed with a private key of the credential issuer; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node;

10. The method of claim 8, the target distribution node transmitting to a service requestor service data requested by the service requestor to a service provider, comprising:

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

12. The method of claim 10, the target distribution node dividing the service data into a number of service sub-data, comprising:

13. A traffic statistical method based on a block chain comprises the following steps:

14. The method of claim 13, wherein a traffic credential that is transferred from the credential issuer is signed with a private key of the credential issuer; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node;

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the service data is divided into a plurality of service sub-data by the target distribution node and transmitted to the service requester; the service requester submits the third transfer transaction to a blockchain network, including:

16. A traffic statistical method based on a block chain comprises the following steps:

a blockchain link point in a blockchain network transfers ownership of a traffic credential equal to a first transaction amount contained in a first reconciled transaction from a credential issuer to a service provider, the first transaction amount corresponding to a number of traffic credentials purchased by the service provider to the credential issuer, the first reconciled transaction submitted by the credential issuer to the blockchain network;

17. The method of claim 16, wherein a traffic credential that is transferred from the credential issuer is signed with a private key of the credential issuer; the flow certificate transferred from the service provider is signed by a private key of the service provider; the flow certificate transferred from the service requester is signed by a private key of the service requester; the flow certificate transferred to the target distribution node is signed by a private key of the target distribution node; the method further comprises the following steps:

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the service data is divided by the target distribution node into a number of service sub-data for transmission to the service requestor, and wherein the third transfer transaction is submitted by the service requestor to the blockchain network each time service sub-data is received, and wherein a third transaction amount of the third transfer transaction corresponds to a data volume of the service sub-data received by the service requestor.

19. A blockchain based traffic statistics apparatus, comprising:

the system comprises a creating unit, a receiving unit and a processing unit, wherein the creating unit enables a voucher issuer to create a first transfer transaction aiming at a service provider, the first transfer transaction comprises a first transaction amount, and the first transaction amount corresponds to the quantity of flow vouchers purchased by the service provider to the voucher issuer;

20. A blockchain based traffic statistics apparatus, comprising:

a creation unit that causes a service provider to create a second transfer transaction for a service requester, a second transaction amount of the second transfer transaction corresponding to a data amount of service data requested by the service requester; ownership of a traffic credential, of a traffic credential held by a credential issuer, equal to a first transaction amount included in a first reconveying transaction, transferred by a blockchain nexus in a blockchain network to the service provider upon receipt of the first reconveying transaction, the first transaction amount corresponding to a number of traffic credentials purchased by the service provider to the credential issuer, the first reconveying transaction submitted by the credential issuer to the blockchain network;

21. A blockchain based traffic statistics apparatus, comprising:

22. A blockchain based traffic statistics apparatus, comprising:

23. A blockchain based traffic statistics apparatus, comprising:

a first transfer unit that causes a blockchain link point in a blockchain network to transfer ownership of a traffic voucher equivalent to a first transaction amount included in a first reconveying transaction, which corresponds to the number of traffic vouchers purchased by the service provider to the voucher issuer, from a voucher issuer to a service provider, the first reconveying transaction submitted by the voucher issuer to the blockchain network;

24. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor implements the method of any one of claims 2-18 by executing the executable instructions.

25. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed by a processor, carry out the steps of the method according to any one of claims 2 to 18.