US 12,333,587 B2
Associating land NFTs with digital representations of land parcels
Elliott Grant, Woodside, CA (US); and Zhiqiang Yuan, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US)
Filed by Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US)
Filed on May 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/743,096.
Prior Publication US 2023/0368257 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 50/02 (2024.01); G06Q 50/16 (2024.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0601 (2013.01) [G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 50/165 (2013.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06Q 50/02 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/00 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising:
processing cell data that characterizes one or more bounding shapes that at least partially extend over a digital representation of parcels of land, wherein processing the cell data includes fractally dividing the one or more bounding shapes into a set of bounding shapes in which each bounding shape at least partially extends over a particular digital representation of a parcel of farmland, the parcel of farmland being owned by a user of a blockchain network;
determining, based on the processed cell data, cell values that characterize each bounding shape of the set of bounding shapes that at least partially extends over the digital representation of the parcel of farmland;
generating, based on the cell values, a land non-fungible token (NFT) that is stored at a blockchain user address corresponding to the user of the blockchain network, wherein the land NFT is stored in association with the cell values that characterize each bounding shape of the set of bounding shapes that at least partially extends over the digital representation of farmland;
determining that the user of the blockchain network has provided, to the blockchain network, blockchain agreement data that identifies a value to exchange for performing an agricultural operation at a portion of the parcel of farmland, and the blockchain agreement data is stored at a blockchain agreement address of the blockchain network with other cell values that correspond to a subset of the bounding shapes that at least partially extends over another digital representation of the portion of the parcel of farmland;
determining that an additional user of the blockchain network has caused an agreement input to be communicated from an additional blockchain user address to the blockchain agreement address, wherein the additional blockchain user address is stored on the blockchain network in association with the additional user; and
after the agreement input is communicated from the additional blockchain user address to the blockchain agreement address, accessing sensor data that indicates the agricultural operation has been performed at the portion of the parcel of farmland, wherein the sensor data is generated at a first computing device that communicates with the blockchain network.