Data Valuation System Using Wagering Mechanisms

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Solution Overview

Problem

In multi-tenant database environments, there is a lack of effective systems and methods to enhance user participation and data valuation, particularly in predicting the future value of data fields, which is crucial for community engagement and accurate data representation.

Innovation Solution

A valuation system that allows users to propose wagers on the future value of data fields, with the system monitoring evaluation conditions, retrieving current values, and declaring winners, thereby encouraging user interaction and providing insights into perceived and true data values.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a wagering system is implemented to predict future data field values, then user participation and community engagement are enhanced, but system complexity and operational overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser participationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically monitors evaluation conditions, retrieves current data field values, determines wager outcomes, and manages payouts without requiring manual intervention. The wagering module autonomously handles the complete wager lifecycle from creation to resolution, reducing operational overhead while maintaining user engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides continuous feedback to users about wager status, evaluation condition monitoring progress, and outcome results. This feedback mechanism keeps users engaged and informed about their predictions, enhancing participation while the automated feedback loop replaces manual system management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If the system monitors and evaluates multiple data field values continuously, then data valuation accuracy improves, but computational resources and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata valuation accuracyVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-defines evaluation conditions and criteria for each wager before execution. These conditions specify exactly when and how data field values should be evaluated, allowing the system to prepare evaluation logic in advance and execute only when conditions are met, rather than continuously processing all data fields.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system evaluates only the specific data fields relevant to active wagers rather than continuously monitoring all data fields in the database. By focusing computational resources on partial sets of data fields based on wager requirements, the system maintains valuation accuracy while reducing overall computational overhead.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Reliability

If the system stores and manages wager data and evaluation conditions, then data integrity and traceability improve, but database storage requirements and retrieval complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata integrityVSAvoiddata storage
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments wager data into distinct components: wager definitions, evaluation conditions, current values, and outcome results. Each component is stored separately in the database, allowing for efficient retrieval of specific information without loading entire wager records. This segmentation maintains data integrity through structured storage while reducing retrieval complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8690666B2Systems and methods for data valuation
Publication Date: 2014.04.08 SALESFORCE INC
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AI summary

A computer-implemented valuation method is provided for a data field of a data object. The method includes receiving a proposed wager from a first user with a predicted future value of the data field at an evaluation condition; receiving a counter-wager from a second user against the predicted future value; monitoring the evaluation condition; and upon satisfaction of the evaluation condition, determining a current value of the data field, comparing the current value to the predicted future value, and declaring a winning party between the first user and the second user based on the comparison.