Anonymous Link Mediator for Privacy-Preserving Marketing Data Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current marketing technologies face challenges in linking offline and online consumer data effectively due to privacy concerns and the lack of accurate consumer identification in online channels, leading to inefficient targeted advertising and lower return on investment for marketers.
Innovation Solution
The development of an apparatus and method that associates consumer marketing information with online consumers using anonymous links, ensuring that personally identifiable information (PII) is never exposed outside a protected data environment, allowing for targeted online advertising while maintaining consumer privacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If personally identifiable information (PII) is used to link offline and online consumer data, then marketing targeting accuracy is improved, but consumer privacy protection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces anonymous links as an intermediary mechanism that enables data association between offline and online channels without exposing PII. The anonymous link acts as a mediator that preserves marketing effectiveness while protecting consumer privacy by design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the identifying element (PII) from the data association process while retaining the functional capability to link consumer data across channels. By removing PII and using anonymous links instead, the system maintains targeting accuracy without the privacy risks associated with exposing personal information.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If anonymous links are used to protect consumer privacy, then consumer privacy protection is improved, but the ability to accurately identify and target consumers online deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The anonymous link serves as an intermediary that preserves consumer privacy while enabling accurate identification and targeting. The system uses the anonymous link to associate offline PII data with online consumer behavior, maintaining marketing effectiveness without compromising privacy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a functional copy of the identification mechanism that works without PII. The anonymous link replicates the data-association capability of traditional PII-based systems while eliminating the privacy risks, allowing consumers to be accurately identified and targeted through their anonymous identifier.
3Productivity
If PII is collected and stored for multichannel marketing analysis, then marketing analytics capability is improved, but data security requirements and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts PII from the online marketing data flow, storing it only in the protected offline environment while using anonymous links for all online processing and analysis. This reduces the scope of data that requires high-level security protections while maintaining full analytics capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the data environment into protected offline portions (where PII is stored) and anonymous online portions (where only anonymous links are used). This segmentation allows marketing analytics to proceed in the anonymous environment without requiring the same level of security infrastructure for the entire system.
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AI summary
A method and system for bringing together online and offline advertising uses anonymous links that are associated with consumer data. The anonymous links allow processing without personally identifiable information (PII) in a secure environment. Data is matched using the anonymous links. The method and system allows a marketer to utilize offline data to precisely target advertisements without the use of PII, and to perform analytics concerning the use of the online advertisements to more precisely determine the effectiveness of multichannel marketing efforts.