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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2022
Redcritter Corp., Flower Mound, TX (US);
Robert M. Beaty, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Randy M. Whelan, Coppell, TX (US);
Erika D. Lambert, Flower Mound, TX (US);
James L. Rockett, Jr., Carrollton, TX (US);
RedCritter Corp., Flower Mound, TX (US);
Abstract
An off-chain abstraction mechanism for distributing NFTs in an educational or similar environment is provided. The off-chain abstraction mechanism abstracts away required knowledge and activities that are directly involved in the issuance to and collection of NFTs both on and off-chain by students thereby allowing teachers to focus simply on rewarding desired behaviors by issuing digital coins to students. Teachers can distribute digital coins to students that are grouped into teams as part of a game or challenge. Digital coins can be associated with a point value that can be added to a team's score during a round of the game. A school administrator can declare a round complete at which point the teams' scores can be used to identify one or more winning teams. Off-chain NFTs can then be distributed to the students of a winning team. The students may view their off-chain NFTs at any time. Also, students desiring to do so may redeem an off-chain NFT for a matching on-chain NFT. A voucher mechanism can be implemented to prevent students from minting NFTs that they have not earned.