Centralized Compliance Content Migration via Automated Widgets

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for entities to comply with GDPR and similar regulations are cumbersome, requiring significant manual effort and resources due to the need to migrate and manage compliance content across multiple web platforms and languages, leading to potential data misuse and customer distrust.

Innovation Solution

A system that automatically migrates compliance content, such as GDPR-related content, to a central repository and integrates widgets into digital applications, allowing users to access this content easily, thereby streamlining compliance and enhancing data protection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual migration of compliance content is performed across multiple web platforms, then compliance with GDPR is achieved, but significant manual effort and time are required

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveGDPR complianceVSAvoidmanual migration time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses automated bots to copy compliance content from source web platforms to a central repository. The bots systematically extract compliance content (privacy policies, terms of service, consent forms) from multiple digital applications and replicate them in a centralized location, eliminating manual copying while ensuring compliance content is accurately migrated across all platforms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a central repository as an intermediary between multiple digital applications and compliance requirements. This central repository acts as a mediator that stores standardized compliance content and makes it accessible to all digital applications, simplifying the compliance migration process from a complex multi-platform operation to a centralized management system

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If compliance content is stored in multiple locations across different platforms, then each platform can access its content, but managing and updating compliance content becomes cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidcompliance management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges compliance content storage from multiple distributed locations into a single central repository. All compliance content (privacy policies, terms, consents) that was previously stored across multiple digital applications is consolidated into one centralized location, reducing management complexity while maintaining accessibility through standardized retrieval mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The central repository is designed with universal functionality to serve multiple digital applications simultaneously. It provides a single interface for storing, managing, and retrieving compliance content that can be accessed by any number of digital applications, making the system adaptable to varying compliance needs without increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Productivity

If automated bots are used to migrate compliance content, then migration speed increases, but system integration complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemigration speedVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-service automation where bots autonomously perform compliance content migration without requiring complex manual configuration. The bots automatically discover, extract, and migrate compliance content from source platforms to the central repository, reducing the need for complex integration interfaces while maintaining high migration speed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3611645B1Methods and systems for facilitating migration to centralized compliance content for integration with a plurality of digital applications
Publication Date: 2023.03.08 MASTERCARD INT INC
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AI summary

In an embodiment, a method includes accessing, one or more digital applications by a server system. Each of the one or more digital applications is configured to be accessed by a plurality of users. The method also includes determining, by the server system, compliance content in each of the one or more digital applications. The method further includes removing the compliance content determined from each of the one or more digital applications. The method further includes storing the compliance content in a central repository. Thereafter, the method includes facilitating integration of one or more widgets into each of the one or more digital applications to access the compliance content stored in the central repository. The one or more widgets integrated into a digital application of the one or more digital applications enable a user of the digital application to access the compliance content from the central repository.