A facility for facilitating payments from a client to a freelancer is described. The facility provides a mobile app enabling the freelancer to open an account and solicit payments by clients. In response, each client can use any of a variety of forms of electronic payments to pay into the account. The freelancer can use a debit card issued for the account to spend or withdraw payments made into the account, and can use the app to track requests for payment, payments, client activity, and spending and withdrawals from the account.

The preceding disclosure concerns a novel solution to income inequality and wealth inequality (the “Solution”). The Solution is comprised of, among other elements, the following embodiments: an income equality generator; a wealth equality generator; future income swaps; future wealth swaps; income verification for future income swaps; and wealth verification for future wealth swaps. The embodiments are useful, novel, and non-obvious individually. Likewise, the embodiments are useful, novel, and non-obvious when taken collectively. Income inequality and/or wealth inequality—the problem(s) solved by the income equality generator and/or wealth equality generator alone or in combination with future income swaps and/or future wealth swaps and income verification for future income swaps and/or wealth verification for future wealth swaps—do not occur in nature, are a relatively new problem, and are problems that have increased in magnitude in recent years. The Solution does not constitute a software implementation of a process that is already in use. Nor do the embodiments, either individually or collectively. Importantly, we do not seek patent protection for all means by which income equality and/or wealth equality may be generated; for all swap products (i.e., those not related to income or wealth); or other income verification processes for future income swaps and/or future wealth swaps that may be similar to those that are detailed in this application.

A control method according to the present disclosure is control method for controlling a first node that manages a first blockchain in a first distributed ledger in a system utilized to use a service object and including the first node and a plurality of second nodes that each manage a second blockchain in a second distributed ledger. The control method includes: obtaining first transaction data; determining whether a total number of second nodes, among the plurality of second nodes, that are capable of communication exceeds a predetermined value; and generating a first block containing the first transaction data only when the total number of second nodes that are capable of communication exceeds the predetermined value.

A method for allocating resources is provided. A server acquires resource allocation weights corresponding to a plurality of first user accounts in a virtual space, and generates a first resource quantity corresponding to each of the first user accounts by dividing a target resource quantity corresponding to the plurality of first user accounts, and allocates the resources of the target resource quantity to the plurality of first user accounts based on the first resource quantity corresponding to each of the first user accounts. The first user accounts are configured to publish live-streaming data into the virtual space for co-hosting.

The embodiments disclose a data processing cost and price determination platform with electronic negotiation, including a mobile app configured to register a medical patient, a medical database configured to retrieve patient demographics, patient medical necessity codes and patient billed account data related to the medical patient of a medical provider, a server configured to electronically collect updated patient medical pricing data from governmental and health insurance carrier sources and medical necessity standards based on demographics of the medical provider, a processor configured to compare the patient billed account with the updated medical pricing data to determine a suggested fair market of the patient billed account, an electronic negotiation module to submit the suggested fair market of the patient billed account data to the medical provider for soliciting a negotiated settlement rate and a communication module to transmit the accepted negotiated settlement rate from the medical provider to the medical patient.

A blockchain platform is provided for creating original non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and prints of the original NFTs. The platform creates a market for purchasing and selling prints of the original NFTs. The purchase price and the sale price for a print is determined based on a bonding curve and a total supply of the prints of the original NFT. The platform may also generate content (e.g., artwork and/or music) associated with the original NFTs. The content may be generated from logic that is stored on the blockchain.

A method implements a transaction tracking system. The method includes obtaining transaction information, obtaining county information, and calculating value information using the transaction information and the county information. The method further includes obtaining transfer information, comparing the transaction information to the transfer information to update status information, and presenting the status information.

A nurse call system that enables a call for a nurse from anywhere in a hospital ward while a patient carries a mobile phone is provided. The nurse call system includes a plurality of patient mobile phones 10 are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to a controller 8 via a base station 12 as with nurse mobile phones 9, and each patient mobile phone 10 has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for recognizing a bed location of the patient carrying the patient mobile phone 10, thus enabling a nurse call operation for transmitting a call signal with the hospital room ID and the slave device ID added thereto, to the nurse call master device 7 and at least one of the nurse mobile phones 9, through a predetermined operation.

A cross border payment (CBP) computing device for transmitting cross border data rich payments in real-time is provided. The CBP computing device receives, from an originating bank associated with a payor, a payment request message to transfer funds in real-time. The payment request message includes payment instructions and transaction information associated with a transfer amount. The CBP computing device determines that the payment request message is a cross border payment transfer from a first payment network for processing real-time payments within a first country to a second payment network for processing real-time payments within a second country, and retrieves, from a database, a set of rules based on a payment messaging standard and protocol associated with the second payment network. The CBP computing device reformats the payment request messaged based on the retrieved set of rules, and transmits the reformatted payment message to a receiving bank associated with a payee.

Techniques are disclosed relating to transaction authorization. In some embodiments, a server computer system receives and caches browsing information for a device of a user, where the browsing information relates to a transaction service. The server computer system may then receive a request to authorize one or more transactions via the transaction service. The server computer system may evaluate the cached browsing information to determine whether the user is attempting to perform multiple concurrent transactions via the transaction service. Based on the evaluating, the server computer system may determine whether to authorize the one or more transactions. In some embodiments, the disclosed techniques may advantageously prevent or reduce authorization of duplicate transactions that are concurrently attempted by a user.