Achievement Aggregation System for Unified User Profiles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Social networking systems lack a comprehensive way to aggregate and present user achievements across multiple platforms, leading to fragmented and unverified representations of user accomplishments, which can undermine trust and completeness in user profiles.

Innovation Solution

A system that establishes authenticated connections between various social networking organizations and a central achievement aggregator, allowing for the collection, combination, and presentation of user achievements in a unified profile, using APIs like OAuth and rel-me microformat to ensure legitimacy and integration of both social and professional achievements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If user achievements are tracked across multiple separate social networking systems, then the completeness of user achievement information is improved, but the complexity of managing and integrating these achievements across different platforms increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of user achievement informationVSAvoidcomplexity of managing achievements across platforms

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary achievement aggregation service that mediates between multiple social networking systems and users. This service collects achievement data from various platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), normalizes the data formats, and presents unified achievement information to users without requiring them to manually manage multiple separate achievement tracking systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If achievement information is aggregated from multiple third-party services, then the versatility of user profile representation is improved, but the difficulty of authenticating and verifying the legitimacy of achievements increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveversatility of user profile representationVSAvoidauthentication of achievement legitimacy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where users can review and verify their achievement information before it is displayed on their aggregated profile. The achievement aggregation service provides feedback to users about the status and authenticity of achievements from different platforms, allowing users to confirm or correct the information to maintain reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The achievement aggregation service acts as an intermediary that establishes trusted connections with third-party services through standardized authentication protocols. This intermediary layer verifies the legitimacy of achievements by validating authentication tokens and connection credentials before aggregating the data, thus maintaining reliability while preserving versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If a centralized system aggregates achievements from multiple platforms, then the ease of presenting unified user profiles is improved, but the loss of control over how different platforms display achievement data increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of presenting unified user profilesVSAvoidcontrol over platform-specific achievement data

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides dynamic control mechanisms that allow users to adjust the visibility and presentation of achievement data from different platforms. Users can dynamically configure which achievements are displayed, their prominence, and how they are presented in the unified profile, maintaining control over the aggregation process while benefiting from ease of unified presentation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9092390B1Electronic badge clearinghouse

Publication Date: 2015.07.28 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

A computer-implemented method for handling electronic achievement information involves receiving, from a first user of an achievement aggregation system, a selection of a plurality of achievement tracking services that are operated by organizations that are separate from the operator of the achievement aggregation system; establishing an authenticated electronic communication connection between the achievement aggregator system and each of the one or more achievement tracking services; obtaining from each of the achievement tracking services, information sufficient to characterize one or more achievements obtained by the user; aggregating the information obtained from each of the achievement tracking services into a user achievement profile; and providing the user achievement profile for presentation to one or more users who request profile information about the first user.