Adoption Matching Database Intermediary System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems and methods for facilitating adoption lack effective screening mechanisms for matching suitable adoptive parents with children, leading to inefficiencies and privacy concerns, especially in non-agency assisted adoptions.
Innovation Solution
A computer-based processing method that organizes and maintains a data store accessible to authorized adoption participants, allowing electronic queries for matching adoptive parents with children, while ensuring privacy by limiting access privileges and protecting sensitive information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If a pooled database from multiple agencies is accessed to speed up matching, then the time required for matching is reduced, but privacy protection and access control become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized computer system that acts as an intermediary between multiple adoption agencies and their respective databases. This mediator system pools data from multiple agencies into a unified database, enabling efficient matching while maintaining privacy through controlled access. The intermediary handles the complexity of data integration and access management, allowing participating agencies to benefit from expanded matching capabilities without directly managing the complexity themselves.
2Productivity
If direct access to birth parents and adoptive parents is enabled without agency assistance, then the adoption process becomes more efficient, but screening and matching quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables birth parents and adoptive parents to directly access the pooled database and initiate matching requests without mandatory agency intermediation. Participants can independently search for matches based on their criteria, significantly improving process efficiency. The system maintains reliability by providing structured screening tools and criteria within the database interface, allowing self-service while ensuring quality matching through standardized evaluation frameworks.
3Speed
If sensitive information is made accessible to accelerate matching, then matching speed increases, but privacy protection is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements differential access rights where different levels of information are made available to different user roles. The pooled database contains comprehensive information, but access is granted selectively: screened adoptive parents receive different information than birth parents, and agency personnel have different access levels than participants. This local quality approach allows fast matching through comprehensive data availability while protecting privacy through role-based information masking and selective disclosure.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method including storing or accessing data representing users of first and second divisions, where the data includes first and second sets of records, receiving a query from a member associated with an organization having access privilege to the data, generating, when the query is from a member of the first division, a score that reflects a degree to which parameters of the query are similar to parameters of data representing users of the second division, where the parameters include characteristics of a family that may adopt a child, generating, when the query is from a member of the second division, a score that reflects a degree to which parameters of the query are similar to parameters of data representing users of the first division, where the parameters include characteristics of a child that may be adopted.