Cross-Platform Reward Notification System for Real-Money Apps

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Solution Overview

Problem

Online computer applications involving real-world money face friction points due to legal requirements, which deter users from engaging in real-world money transactions, necessitating a method to reduce this friction and enhance user interaction.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that transmit notifications through an interface of a second application, offering rewards for performing actions in a real-money application, with a virtual vault to store and manage real-money rewards, allowing users to redeem them once qualified, thereby incentivizing engagement and simplifying the transaction process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If legal requirements are enforced in real-money applications, then compliance and reliability are improved, but user friction and operation difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovecomplianceVSAvoiduser friction
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a friction reduction system that acts as an intermediary between legal requirements and users. This system includes components that pre-validate user eligibility, prepare compliance documentation, and guide users through required actions, thereby maintaining legal compliance while reducing the perceived friction for users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-screening users for compliance eligibility before they engage in real-money transactions. Compliance checks, KYC verification, and other regulatory requirements are handled in advance, so users encounter minimal friction when actually transacting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If users are required to complete actions in real-money applications, then engagement and productivity are improved, but operation complexity and time investment increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveengagementVSAvoidtime investment
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms that provide users with real-time information about their progress toward completing required actions. The system tracks user activities, provides status updates, and communicates rewards or benefits that will be received, thereby maintaining high engagement while helping users efficiently manage their time investment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to self-service by providing clear guidance, automated tracking, and easy-to-complete actions. Users can independently navigate compliance requirements and engagement tasks without extensive manual intervention, reducing both the perceived complexity and actual time required.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If compliance requirements are implemented, then legal reliability is improved, but device complexity and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelegal complianceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal friction reduction system that handles multiple compliance requirements and legal obligations through a single integrated platform. This multi-functional system manages KYC verification, transaction monitoring, reporting, and other compliance tasks across different real-money applications, thereby maintaining legal reliability without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

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

Data Source

PatentUS10387905B2Methods and systems for cross-platform promotion with real money applications
Publication Date: 2019.08.20 ZYNGA INC
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AI summary

A notification regarding a real-money application is transmitted to a user of a second application when the user is executing the second application. The notification conveys a reward available to the user within the second application in exchange for performing a required action in the real-money application. Upon selection of a control object by the user, the real-money application is executed with reference to the user so as to provide the user with an interface to perform the required action in the real-money application. Upon determining that the user completed the required action in the real-money application, a status of the user is updated in the second application to provide the user with the reward in the second application corresponding to completion of the required action in the real-money application.