Connected Utility Platform Integrating Blockchain for Personalized Engagement

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a lack of integrated connected utility platforms for brands and media companies to customize messaging, track media efficiency, and reward user engagement based on customer preferences and identity, aiming to drive sales and increase user engagement across various media and entertainment platforms.

Innovation Solution

The system integrates partner infrastructures through internal system APIs and blockchain technology to validate ownership or participation, securely distribute benefits, and enhance user experiences with personalized interactions, supporting both Web 2 and Web 3 environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional media engagement platforms are used, then basic user interaction is possible, but customization of messaging, tracking of media efficiency, and rewarding user engagement based on customer preferences and identity cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidplatform integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the media engagement platform into distinct functional modules: identity management service, preference service, media efficiency tracking, reward distribution, and messaging customization. Each module operates independently but integrates through standardized interfaces, allowing the system to achieve high adaptability without proportionally increasing overall complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The platform implements a universal identity management service that handles multiple functions including user authentication, preference storage, media efficiency tracking, and reward distribution through a single integrated system. This multi-functional approach enables customization capabilities while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate systems.

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

2Productivity

If comprehensive user data tracking is implemented to personalize messaging and rewards, then user engagement and brand loyalty improve, but data security and privacy management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagement efficiencyVSAvoiddata management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The identity management service acts as an intermediary layer between data collection points and usage destinations. It centralizes data security and privacy management functions, including authentication, authorization, and data access control. This intermediary approach enables comprehensive user data tracking for personalization while containing data management complexity within a single specialized service rather than distributing it across the entire platform.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If blockchain technology is integrated for secure benefit distribution and ownership validation, then security and trust are enhanced, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveownership validation securityVSAvoidblockchain integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts blockchain functionality into a separate, specialized service layer that handles only ownership validation and secure benefit distribution. The main platform interacts with blockchain through standardized APIs, allowing the core business logic to remain simple while leveraging blockchain's security benefits for specific critical functions without requiring the entire system to become complex.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple partner infrastructures are integrated through APIs, then platform functionality and user experience are enhanced, but integration and maintenance complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepartner integration capabilityVSAvoidAPI integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The platform implements a universal API gateway that handles multiple partner integrations through a single standardized interface layer. This gateway provides common authentication, data transformation, and error handling for all partner connections, enabling the system to integrate diverse partner infrastructures while containing integration complexity within the gateway rather than propagating it throughout the entire system.

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

Data Source

PatentUS20250148433A1Connected utility platform
Publication Date: 2025.05.08 SUBNATION
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AI summary

A system and method for brands and media companies who desire to collaborate with creators, customize messaging to target customers, track media efficiency, and reward user engagement, all based on their preferences and identity with the objective of driving sales and ongoing loyalty across all forms of media, live entertainment, instore experiences, sports, music and digital platforms.