Consent Broker Server for Selective Data Sharing and Monetization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack effective methods for managing user consent and data flow between devices and third parties, leading to users' valuable data being underutilized and users having limited control over data sharing terms and monetization opportunities.
Innovation Solution
A consent broker server and database manage user consent preferences, allowing users to selectively share data with third parties and enabling data monetization through a marketplace for data exchange.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users share their data with third parties, then data utilization and monetization opportunities increase, but users lose control over data sharing terms and privacy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a consent broker as an intermediary system between users and third-party data consumers. The consent broker manages consent preferences, stores consent data, and facilitates data sharing requests while maintaining user control. This mediator enables data utilization by third parties while preserving user autonomy through structured consent management mechanisms.
2Ease of operation
If users selectively manage consent preferences, then privacy control improves, but data monetization opportunities are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments consent management into distinct components: consent preferences, consent data, data sharing requests, and monetization parameters. Users can selectively grant consent for specific data types, purposes, and time periods. This segmentation enables fine-grained privacy control while still allowing data monetization to occur within the boundaries of user-defined consent parameters.
3Ease of operation
If a consent management system is implemented, then user privacy control improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The consent broker is designed as a universal system that handles multiple functions: storing consent preferences, managing consent data, processing data sharing requests, and facilitating monetization. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional platform, the patent reduces overall system complexity compared to having separate systems for each function.
4Productivity
If third parties access user data, then data value is realized, but user consent compliance becomes difficult to ensure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the consent broker continuously monitors and verifies that data sharing activities comply with stored consent preferences. The system provides feedback to both users and third parties about consent status, enabling real-time compliance verification and ensuring that data value realization occurs within the bounds of user authorization.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are systems and methods for managing consent to share data from a user device. In some examples, the system stores user identifiers referenced to the user's individual consent preferences. The consent preferences may include data types, data generating devices to which the user consents, types of third parties the user consents to share the data with and other consent preferences. Third parties may communicate with the system, and determine whether a user has consented to share their data.