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Definitions

• TITLE Process for managing rights associated with an object.
• the invention relates to a method for managing rights associated with an object.
• the invention also relates to the use of such an object in a method of managing the rights attached to this object.
• the invention also relates to a device for managing rights associated with such an object.
• the invention also relates to a program product for managing rights associated with such an object.
• the invention also relates to a data recording medium dedicated to the implementation of the method for managing rights associated with such an object.
• the invention finally relates to a signal from a data carrier, carrying such a computer program product
• the aim of the invention is to provide a method for managing rights associated with an object remedying the disadvantages mentioned above and improving the management methods known from the prior art.
• the invention proposes a method for managing rights associated with an object which makes it possible to guarantee traceability and authenticity while making it possible to manage in addition rights associated with products and/or services ancillary to the object.
• a method makes it possible to manage rights associated with an object, such as a timepiece or piece of jewelry.
• the process includes the following steps:
• a second digital token in particular a non-fungible digital token, associated with a second right, in particular a right of access to digital content, in particular multimedia content, associated with the object, the second digital token being stored and authenticated using a second blockchain protocol
• the first blockchain protocol and the second blockchain protocol are advantageously of the same type or the first blockchain protocol and the second blockchain protocol are advantageously the same blockchain protocol.
• the smart contract may involve the creation, through a blockchain protocol, of a third digital token including information including:
• the first digital token - at least one piece of information contained in the first digital token, such as in particular information about the object and/or a serial number of the subject and/or an identifier of the transaction for creating the first digital token and/or the date of activation of the certificate of authenticity and/or the date of sale of the product and/or an identifier of the first digital token,
• the smart contract is configured such that the transfer of ownership rights to the first digital token involves the transfer of ownership rights to the second digital token and/or the transfer of ownership rights to the third digital token, and /or the transfer of the right of ownership to the second digital token involves the transfer of the right of ownership to the first digital token and/or the transfer of the right of ownership to the third digital token, and/or the transfer of the right of ownership to the third digital token involves the transfer of ownership rights to the first digital token and/or the transfer of ownership rights to the second digital token.
• the first digital token and/or the second digital token may be associated with digital wallets of crypto-assets, in particular with the same digital wallet of crypto-assets.
• the crypto-asset digital wallet or one of the crypto-asset digital wallets may be associated with:
• a digital document such as a computer file or a message, in particular an MMS (from English Multimedia Messaging Service) or an SMS (from English Short Message).
• MMS from English Multimedia Messaging Service
• SMS from English Short Message
• the public key or the code associated with the public key can be registered by printing or by engraving or by sticking a label.
• the code associated with the public key may be a machine-readable code, such as an NFC tag or a barcode, in particular such as a matrix code or a QR code.
• the crypto-asset digital wallet or one of the crypto-asset digital wallets may be associated with:
• a digital document such as a computer file or a message, in particular an MMS or an SMS.
• the code associated with the private key may be a machine-readable code, such as an NFC tag or a barcode, in particular such as a matrix code or a QR code.
• the invention also relates to a use of an object or a material support attached to the object and/or an accessory, in particular a timepiece, in particular a barrel or an accessory.
• barrel ratchet of a timepiece as support for a public key or a code associated with a public key of a digital portfolio of crypto-assets.
• a device in particular a distributed computing architecture, makes it possible to manage rights associated with an object, the device comprising hardware and/or software elements implementing the method defined above, in particular hardware and/or software elements designed to implement the process defined above.
• a device comprises means for implementing steps of the method defined above.
• a computer program product comprises program code instructions recorded on a computer-readable medium for implementing the steps of the method defined above when said program operates on a computer.
• the invention also relates to a computer program product downloadable from a communications network and/or recorded on a data carrier readable by a computer and/or executable by a computer.
• the program product includes instructions which, when the program is executed by the computer, lead it to implement steps of the process defined previously.
• the invention also relates to a data recording medium, readable by a computer, on which a computer program is recorded comprising program code instructions for implementing the method defined above.
• the invention also relates to a computer-readable recording medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, lead it to implement steps of the method defined above.
• the invention also relates to a signal from a data carrier, carrying the computer program product defined above.
• Figure 1 is a view of a timepiece whose rights are managed according to one mode of execution of the method according to the invention.
• the object is the main element whose rights are managed according to the process.
• the object can be marketed with an additional element or an auxiliary element which can also be of any type such as a physical or intangible object, product or service.
• the auxiliary element comprises a data access service, in particular multimedia data which may contain images, sound content, videos .
• multimedia data can, for example, trace the history of the creative project which gave rise to the placing of the object on the market.
• This data may, for example, contain testimonials from people involved in the project, such as the testimony of an artistic director or the testimony of a technical director speaking directly to the owner of the timepiece.
• the auxiliary element may also contain a digital or physical work of art sold with the timepiece and produced for example by an artist who has collaborated with the manufacture, in particular having collaborated with the manufacture in the process of creating the piece watchmaking.
• the auxiliary element can also consist of an accessory object such as, for example, a case for the timepiece.
• the main element for example, the object constituted by the timepiece
• the auxiliary element for example, the data access service
• the process makes it possible to manage rights on the main element.
• This property right can be divided into bare ownership and usufruct.
• the management of any other rights associated with the main element may be considered.
• the method also makes it possible to manage rights on the auxiliary element.
• rights on the auxiliary element In particular, it is possible to manage the property right on the auxiliary element. This property right can be divided into bare ownership and usufruct. The management of any other rights associated with the auxiliary element may be considered.
• These rights on the auxiliary element can be seen as rights associated with the main element, the auxiliary element being associated with the main element.
• the association between the auxiliary element and the main element can be of any nature such as functional, commercial, conceptual, or artistic.
• the association can also be only the consequence of the implementation of the rights management process.
• a first digital token is created or minted (in English “to mint”) associated with a first right, in particular the right of ownership, on the coin. watchmaking.
• the first digital token is for example of the non-fungible type (in English “NFT” for non-fungible token).
• the first digital token is stored and authenticated using a first blockchain protocol.
• the first protocol is for example the AURA blockchain protocol.
• a second digital token is created or minted associated with a second right, in particular a right of access to digital content, in particular multimedia content, associated with the timepiece.
• the second right can be a right on an auxiliary element.
• the second digital token is for example of the non-fungible type.
• the second digital token is stored and authenticated using a second blockchain protocol.
• the second protocol is for example the POLYGON blockchain protocol.
• the second right may be a right of access to digital content located on a website that belongs to the manufacturer.
• the second right can therefore be a usufruct right over the website while bare ownership of the website remains held by the manufacturer.
• the first blockchain protocol and the second blockchain protocol may be of the same type, or even the first blockchain protocol and the second blockchain protocol may be the same blockchain protocol.
• the second step can be implemented in different ways.
• the manufacture triggers the operation of creating the second digital token as soon as the timepiece is completed or upon sale of the timepiece from the manufacture to the first customer or first owner.
• a second mode of execution it is the first customer or the first owner who triggers the operation of creating the second digital token after he has taken possession of the timepiece.
• a code associated with the public key is written on the timepiece 1, in particular on a component 2 of the timepiece, in particular on a barrel 2 or on a ratchet 3 of barrel 2 of the timepiece watchmaking 1.
• the timepiece may be supplied with a material support such as a document, a label, a certificate, a case or any accessory on which the public key or the code associated with the public key is written.
• the timepiece can be provided with a digital document, such as a computer file or a message, in particular an MMS or an SMS, containing the public key or the code associated with the public key. This digital document can be given or sent when purchasing the timepiece.
• the timepiece may be provided with a digital document, such as a computer file or a message, in particular an MMS or an SMS, containing the private key or the code associated with the private key.
• a digital document such as a computer file or a message, in particular an MMS or an SMS, containing the private key or the code associated with the private key.
• This digital document can be given or sent when purchasing the timepiece.
• the delivery of the private key or the code associated with the private key is secure. For example, when the private key or the code associated with the private key is affixed to a document or more generally to any physical medium, it is covered with a covering masking it so that only the first owner will be able to see it after removal of the coating.
• One and/or the other of the keys and/or one and/or the other of the codes associated with the keys can be registered by printing or by engraving or by sticking a label.
• one and/or the other of the codes associated with the keys is a code readable by radio frequencies or optically by a machine, such as an NFC (near field contact) label, a barcode, in particular like a matrix code or QR code.
• a machine such as an NFC (near field contact) label, a barcode, in particular like a matrix code or QR code.
• the first owner of the timepiece can, by having access to the public key and the private key, trigger the creation of the second digital token. To do this, he can go to a dedicated website and enter the public and private keys to start creating the second digital token.
• the first and second digital tokens are associated with one or two digital crypto-asset wallets (in English “wallet”). From their creation, they are associated with a digital wallet of the first owner or transferred from a digital wallet of the manufacture to a digital wallet of the first owner during the sale of the timepiece.
• the first digital token and the second digital token may be associated with digital wallets of different crypto-assets.
• the first digital token and the second digital token can be associated with the same digital portfolio of crypto-assets.
• the public and private keys mentioned above are advantageously the public and private keys of the digital wallet of crypto-assets of the first owner and containing, after sale of the timepiece from the manufacture to the first owner, the first digital token and the second token digital.
• a smart contract is created linking the rights to the first and second digital tokens so that the ownership right to one of the first and second tokens digital tokens cannot be transferred without ownership of the other of the first and second digital tokens.
• the first and second digital tokens cannot be transferred without each other. More preferably, assuming that the first and second digital tokens are originally associated with a first digital wallet, they can only be transferred together to be associated with a second digital wallet following a transfer.
• the smart contract involves creating or minting, through a third blockchain protocol, a third token digital.
• the third blockchain protocol is preferably the same protocol as the first blockchain protocol or the second blockchain protocol
• the first digital token - at least one piece of information contained in the first digital token, such as in particular information about the timepiece and/or a serial number of the timepiece and/or an identifier of the transaction for creating the first digital token and/or the date of activation of the certificate of authenticity and/or the date of sale of the timepiece and/or an identifier of the first digital token, and
• the first digital token and the second digital token can be created simultaneously or almost simultaneously.
• the first digital token can be created by including data relating to the second digital token, just as the second digital token can be created by including data relating to the first digital token.
• the first and second tokens can be linked as soon as they are created.
• the smart contract is configured so that:
• the transfer of the right of ownership to the first digital token implies the transfer of the right of ownership to the second digital token and/or the transfer of the right of ownership to the third digital token, and/or
• the transfer of the right of ownership to the second digital token implies the transfer of the right of ownership to the first digital token and/or the transfer of the right of ownership to the third digital token, and/or
• the transfer of ownership rights to the third digital token involves the transfer of ownership rights to the first digital token and/or the transfer of ownership rights to the second digital token.
• the smart contract can be configured to limit the transfer of the digital token(s), for example to:
• one or other of these limitations may be implemented in the event of loss or theft of the timepiece.
• the entire digital portfolio of cryptoassets containing the digital tokens can be transferred from one owner to another.
• all transactions on blockchain protocols can be backed up by the manufacturer.
• the factory can manage network nodes of the architecture making it possible to carry out construction processing of the blockchains involved in the storage and authentication of digital tokens.
• the code associated with the public key and affixed to the timepiece itself is advantageously used by the owner to connect to a website offering the digital content already mentioned previously. For example, reading, using a smartphone, the QR code affixed to the timepiece automatically connects the phone to the website offering the content.
• the invention also relates to the use of an object and/or a material support annexed to the object and/or an accessory, in particular of the timepiece 1, in particular of the barrel 2 or the ratchet 3 of barrel 2 of timepiece 1, as support for the public key or code 4 associated with the public key of the digital crypto-asset wallet.
• One embodiment of a device makes it possible to manage the rights associated with the object.
• This embodiment comprises hardware and/or software elements implementing the method described above.
• One embodiment of a computer program product includes program code instructions recorded on a readable medium by computer to implement steps of the method described above when said program operates on a computer.
• interface IERC721 event Transfer( address indexed _from, address indexed _to, uint256 indexed _tokenld
• _metadataURIs[tokenld] tokenMetadataURI; emit Transfer(address(O), to, tokenld);
• the invention also relates to a data recording medium, readable by a computer, on which is recorded a computer program comprising program code instructions for implementing the method described above.
• the invention also relates to a signal from a data carrier, carrying the computer program product described above.

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