Account Data Update Propagation Across Providers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face burdensome and error-prone processes when updating personal information across multiple online accounts, leading to outdated data that can cause communication failures, payment issues, and fraud.
Innovation Solution
Implementing account management logic that automatically updates account data across multiple providers by propagating updated information securely and efficiently, using a client device, proxy server, or server-based solutions to manage security credentials and personal information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual updates are performed for each account provider separately, then each account can be updated individually, but user effort and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple account update operations into a single centralized update process. The system maintains a local data store that consolidates account information across multiple providers, allowing users to update their information once and have it propagated to all connected accounts automatically, thereby reducing time consumption while maintaining data accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary synchronization by maintaining local copies of account data before updates are needed. By pre-establishing the data store with account information and setting up update propagation mechanisms in advance, the system enables rapid updates without requiring real-time connection to each account provider during the update process.
2Ease of manufacture
If manual updates are performed for each account provider, then specific accounts can be updated, but the process becomes error-prone and burdensome
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically propagating updates from the local data store to multiple account providers without requiring user intervention for each account. The update propagation mechanism operates autonomously, selecting and updating accounts based on stored credentials and account information, thereby simplifying the user experience while managing complexity internally.
Solution Approach 2:
The local data store acts as an intermediary between the user and multiple account providers. It centralizes account information and manages the complexity of communicating with different providers, shielding users from the underlying complexity while ensuring accurate and consistent updates across all accounts.
3Productivity
If users visit separate network sites for each account, then each account can be updated manually, but the overall update efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate update operations into a single consolidated process. By maintaining a local data store that aggregates account information from multiple providers and implementing a unified update propagation mechanism, the system achieves high update throughput while presenting a simple operational interface to users.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are various embodiments for updating account data with multiple account providers. Account management logic determines that data associated with a user has been updated. A validation procedure is performed on the updated data. Multiple accounts of the user that may use the data are determined. The accounts are with multiple account providers. Corresponding account update requests for the accounts are sent to the account providers. The account update requests specify the data that has been updated.