Digital Asset Disposition Workflow for Incapacitated Owners
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Solution Overview
Problem
Incapacitation events related to social data owners pose significant challenges in managing and disposing of digital assets across various social data stores, as existing solutions lack efficient automation and customization capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A digital asset management service that searches external resources to classify and match digital assets with suggested actions, transmitting them to an asset manager for customization, and creating a workflow to dispose of assets upon detection of incapacitation events, such as death or permanent relocation of the owner.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual management of digital assets is used, then customization capability is maintained, but productivity and efficiency deteriorate due to extensive manual review and management requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary classification of digital assets into categories and pre-defines disposition actions before incapacitation events occur. This advance preparation enables automated workflows to execute efficiently when needed, resolving the contradiction by establishing automation infrastructure in advance rather than requiring complex real-time decision-making systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments digital assets into distinct categories (e.g., personal photos, financial documents, social media accounts) and associates each category with specific disposition actions. This segmentation allows the automated system to handle different asset types through standardized workflows, improving productivity without requiring overly complex universal handling mechanisms
2Adaptability or versatility
If extensive manual review and customization is performed, then adaptability to specific cases is improved, but loss of time increases due to manual management requirements
Solution Approach 1:
Users pre-configure disposition preferences and actions for different asset categories before incapacitation events. This preliminary customization eliminates the need for time-consuming manual review and decision-making when events occur, allowing the system to execute pre-planned actions immediately while still adapting to individual user preferences
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to set up their own asset management workflows and disposition rules without requiring ongoing manual intervention. Once configured, the system autonomously manages and disposes of digital assets according to user-defined parameters, providing both adaptability to individual needs and elimination of time-consuming manual processes
3Reliability
If comprehensive digital asset discovery is performed across external resources, then completeness of asset management is improved, but device complexity increases due to integration requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements universal integration mechanisms that can connect to multiple external resources (cloud storage services, social media platforms, email systems) through standardized interfaces. This universality enables comprehensive asset discovery across diverse external resources without requiring separate complex integration solutions for each resource type
Data Source
AI summary
Provisioning of digital asset management is provided. A service such as a management service retrieves digital assets from external resources in response to a search of the external resources. The digital assets are classified to asset categories, which are used to match the digital assets to suggested actions to dispose of the digital assets in case of an incapacitation of the asset owner. The digital assets, the asset categories, suggested trigger events, or the suggested actions are transmitted to an asset manager to prompt the asset manager customize the digital assets, the asset categories, suggested trigger events, or the suggested actions. A workflow is created from the digital assets, the asset categories, the suggested trigger events, and the suggested actions to dispose of the digital assets in case of the incapacitation of the asset owner.