Anonymization Server for Multi-Institution Financial Model Training

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing AI models for financial product recommendation lack accuracy when trained solely on data from individual financial institutions, as they do not leverage the comprehensive financial transaction information held by multiple institutions, which could enhance analysis precision.

Innovation Solution

A model generation device and system that receives anonymized financial transaction information from multiple financial institution servers, generates a model for analyzing financial transactions, and outputs this model for analysis, ensuring customer privacy is protected through anonymization processes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If financial transaction information is aggregated from multiple financial institutions to improve model accuracy, then measurement precision of financial transaction analysis is improved, but customer privacy protection deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel accuracyVSAvoidcustomer privacy risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

An anonymization server acts as an intermediary between financial institutions and the model generation device. This server removes personally identifiable information from customer data before transmission, enabling multi-institutional data aggregation while protecting customer privacy. The anonymization server processes data from multiple financial institutions and outputs anonymized datasets that can be used for model training without exposing customer identities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If customer information is anonymized to protect privacy, then customer privacy protection is improved, but information availability for model training deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer privacy protectionVSAvoidinformation availability
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The anonymization process extracts and removes personally identifiable information (PII) from customer datasets while retaining non-identifying financial transaction characteristics. This extraction of sensitive identifiers enables the preservation of useful analytical information needed for model training while eliminating privacy risks associated with identifiable customer data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20240242273A1Model generation device, financial institution server, information processing system, model generation method, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.07.18 NEC CORP
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AI summary

A model generation device according to the present disclosure comprises: an information receiving means that receives input of financial transaction information including customer information which has been anonymized in each of a plurality of financial institution servers; a model generation device that generates a model for analyzing financial transactions using the financial transaction information received from the plurality of financial institution servers; and an outputting means that outputs the model generated by the model generation means.