Cross-Platform Consent Coordination for Real-Time Data Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Managing user consent preferences across multiple digital platforms is complex due to dynamic user preferences and evolving data privacy regulations, posing challenges for organizations in maintaining compliance and data integrity.

Innovation Solution

A data management system that synchronizes and enforces user consent preferences across platforms in real-time, including consent acquisition, storage, synchronization, notification, and compliance verification, with features for categorizing consent and ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual consent management processes are used across multiple platforms, then flexibility in handling diverse regulations is maintained, but operational efficiency and consistency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoperational efficiencyVSAvoidconsent management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a consent management system as an intermediary layer between data processing operations and user consent preferences. This system automatically retrieves user consent status from a centralized store before executing data processing tasks, thereby improving operational efficiency while maintaining compliance with diverse regulations without requiring manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service consent management by automatically checking and applying user consent preferences without human intervention. The consent store and retrieval mechanisms allow the system to autonomously manage consent compliance across multiple platforms, improving productivity while reducing the complexity burden on manual operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If real-time consent synchronization is implemented, then data integrity and compliance are improved, but system complexity and resource consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata integrityVSAvoidsynchronization system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-storing user consent preferences in a centralized consent store before data processing occurs. The system retrieves the current consent status at the point of need, ensuring data integrity is maintained without requiring continuous real-time synchronization, thus reducing the complexity burden while maintaining reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback mechanism where consent preferences stored in the consent store are automatically retrieved and applied to data processing operations. This feedback loop ensures that any changes in user consent preferences are immediately reflected in data processing decisions, maintaining data integrity without requiring complex real-time synchronization infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive consent tracking across multiple platforms is implemented, then compliance with evolving regulations is improved, but implementation cost and resource requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveregulatory compliance adaptabilityVSAvoidtracking system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by designing a single centralized consent store that serves multiple platforms and regulatory requirements. This unified store maintains user consent preferences that can be retrieved and applied across different data processing operations, enabling comprehensive regulatory compliance adaptability without requiring separate tracking systems for each platform or regulation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system handles regulatory compliance adaptability by storing consent preferences as configurable parameters in the consent store. These parameters can be retrieved and interpreted differently based on the specific platform or regulatory requirement, allowing the system to adapt to evolving regulations without changing the fundamental tracking infrastructure, thus reducing implementation complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20260003997A1User consent management and coordination

Publication Date: 2026.01.01 TWILIO INC

AI summary

Various embodiments described herein support or provide operations for facilitating consent management and compliance with user consent preferences across multiple platforms. Specifically, a request is received for transmitting data to a destination. The data is associated with a consent preference. A consent preference category assigned to the destination is identified. In response to the determining the consent preference associated with the data corresponding to the consent preference category, the data is transmitted to the destination.