Data Intermediary System for Streamlined Consent Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems require users to obtain consent for data provision to third-party service providers, but this process is burdensome when the user has not previously provided data to the service, as there is no past data to compare, leading to increased user burden.
Innovation Solution
A data intermediary system that includes a processor and storage unit, which stores usage information of past services, acquires data items needed for a new service based on its terms of use, selects a comparable service from past usage, extracts differences in data items, and controls data flow upon user consent, easing the consent procedure by leveraging past service data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the system requires users to obtain consent for data provision to third-party service providers by comparing past data provision records, then the reliability of consent management is improved, but the user burden increases when there is no past data to compare
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a data intermediary system that acts as a mediator between users and service providers. This intermediary maintains usage information about past service usage and automatically compares it with current service requirements, eliminating the need for users to manually compare data provision records. The intermediary handles the complex comparison logic and presents simplified consent options to users, thus maintaining reliability while reducing user burden.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-collecting and storing usage information about services the user has previously used. This usage information is prepared in advance and organized in a manner that enables quick comparison with current service data requirements. When a user encounters a new service, the comparison has already been partially done, reducing the real-time processing burden and improving the consent experience.
2Measurement precision
If the system collects and stores detailed usage information about past services to enable comparison, then the accuracy of data provision assessment is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary usage information from complex service usage patterns. Instead of storing and processing all possible service details, the system identifies and extracts specific data elements that are relevant for comparison (such as data types, purposes of use, and service categories). This extraction approach maintains assessment accuracy while significantly reducing system complexity by focusing on essential information only.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms complex service usage data into standardized parameters that facilitate comparison. By converting diverse service information into uniform data structures with consistent parameters (e.g., standardized data category classifications, purpose codes), the system achieves high measurement precision without proportionally increasing complexity. The parameter standardization enables efficient matching and comparison algorithms.
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AI summary
Provided is a data intermediary system, comprising a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit stores therein usage information indicating usage of services. The processor acquires information indicating a data item that needs to be provided by a user as required by a provider of a first service that the user wishes to use, based on terms of use of the first service, selects a second service from services that the user has used in the past, based on the usage information, extracts a difference between the required data items and data items provided based on terms of use of the second service, outputs information indicating the extracted difference, and controls, when the user has accepted the terms of use of the first service, a flow of data from a provider holding the required data to the provider that provides the first service.