Compatibility Matching via Disease Positivity Status Tags

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing user profile matching systems struggle to balance the need for safety in user matching with the privacy concerns surrounding medical conditions, as users are hesitant to share sensitive medical information.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that allow user profiles to be matched based on positivity statuses for predefined diseases, ensuring safety while maintaining medical conditions private, by using a processor to associate positivity statuses with user profiles and generate compatibility indicators based on scanned compatibility tags.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users share detailed medical information for matching, then matching accuracy and safety improve, but user privacy and comfort deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvematching safetyVSAvoidmedical privacy

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential matching-critical information (positivity status for specific diseases) from complete medical histories, storing and processing only these extracted data points while leaving detailed medical information private and unstored

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary matching score and compatibility indicator that mediates between private medical data and public matching results, allowing safety assessment without direct exposure of sensitive medical information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If users disclose medical conditions for matching, then compatibility assessment improves, but user embarrassment and hesitation increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompatibility assessmentVSAvoiduser embarrassment

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses QR codes as visual copies that encode medical status information, allowing users to share compatibility data through scanning rather than direct verbal or textual disclosure of medical conditions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs color-coded compatibility indicators (e.g., green for compatible, red for incompatible) that convey matching results through visual signals rather than explicit medical information disclosure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250054072A1Method and system for partner compatibility matching

Publication Date: 2025.02.13 TARLOW MAIER J

AI summary

A method includes receiving, in association with a profile, an electronic transfer having a data structure and including an identification of the transmitter; determining, by a processor, that the transmitter is included in a predefined set of transmitters; performing character processing of the data structure, thereby identifying one or more of predefined diseases and respective positivity statuses; conditional upon the inclusion in the set of transmitters, associating the respective identified positivity statuses for the respective diseases with the profile on a central server; and subsequently, responsive to a trigger on a device on which the profile is active: activating an image sensor of the device to scan a compatibility tag; processing the scanned compatibility tag, thereby obtaining a respective positivity status for each of the diseases; and based on the positivity statuses of the compatibility tag and of the profile, rendering a compatibility indicator on a display of the device.