AR Content Access Payment Settlement Threshold

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current payment systems for digital goods require pre-authorization and payment before content delivery, lacking a seamless and user-friendly method for accessing and purchasing digital content directly from visual features without registration or payment information input.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method that processes camera images to identify visual features, compares them to a database, and provides access to corresponding digital content, allowing permission-based access and payment settlement without concurrent payment, using a payment settlement arrangement that triggers settlement only when the total cost exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If pre-authorization and payment are required before content delivery, then payment security is improved, but user convenience and access speed deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepayment securityVSAvoiduser convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration and stores payment information in advance, but delays the actual payment transaction until after content delivery. This allows the system to prepare payment authorization beforehand (improving security) while not requiring immediate payment (maintaining convenience). The payment is pre-authorized but not executed until the user has already accessed the content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism where the system acts as a mediator between the user and the payment processor. The system stores payment information and manages the payment process independently, allowing content delivery to proceed without direct real-time payment intervention. This intermediary layer decouples the content delivery process from immediate payment requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If registration and payment information input are required, then payment verification is improved, but system complexity and user burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepayment verificationVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs registration and payment information collection in advance, during an initial setup phase. Once registered, users can access content without repeatedly providing payment information. This preliminary action stores verification data for future use, reducing the complexity of subsequent transactions while maintaining verification reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to register and store their own payment information once, creating a self-service mechanism. After initial registration, the system automatically manages payment verification using stored information, eliminating the need for users to manually input payment details for each transaction. This reduces both user burden and system complexity for recurring operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If payment is required before content access, then revenue collection is improved, but user experience and access speed deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverevenue collectionVSAvoidaccess time

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the traditional payment sequence by delivering content first and then processing payment. Instead of requiring payment before access (traditional approach), the system provides immediate content delivery and subsequently collects payment. This inversion maintains revenue collection while eliminating the time delay and barriers that prevent immediate access.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary content delivery before payment processing. By preparing and providing access to content in advance of the payment transaction, the system ensures users receive immediate value while payment is handled as a follow-up administrative task. This separates the content delivery timeline from the payment timeline.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12198118B2Method and system for augmented feature purchase

Publication Date: 2025.01.14 SUPERTAB AG

AI summary

A computer-implemented augmented reality-based method provides a user device access to data content by processing of a camera image captured by the user device to identify a candidate visual area, which is then processed to identify visual features indicative of available data content. The identified features are compared to visual features of database objects indicative of available data content, and a determination is made regarding the object that corresponds to the identified features. Instructions are then generated to augment a display of the camera image with selectable image features. In response to a selection of one of the selectable image features based on a multi-function transaction status indicator, a determination is made regarding whether the user device has permission to access the data content associated with the selected image feature. If not, a payment settlement arrangement is implemented for the user device to gain access permission to the data content.