Digital Asset Management System with Automatic Tagging and Server Intermediary

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current digital asset management systems lack a comprehensive, user-friendly solution for intuitively organizing, sharing, and managing the vast amount of digital assets such as files, e-mails, and digital media, especially in a dynamic and instantaneous online environment, where users face challenges in sorting and segregating incoming information effectively.

Innovation Solution

The Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) provides a web-based interface for storing, organizing, and sharing digital assets with features like tagging, filtering, and automatic organization, allowing users to create collections, set permissions, and synchronize data across devices, while also offering virus scanning and backup capabilities, enabling intuitive management and sharing of digital assets.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If digital assets are stored and organized in a comprehensive online system, then accessibility and sharing capabilities are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of operation increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccessibility and sharing capabilitiesVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between users and their digital assets. The server hosts the asset management system, handles storage, organization, and sharing operations, thereby reducing client-side complexity while maintaining comprehensive online accessibility and sharing capabilities across multiple devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides universal access to digital assets through a web-based interface that works across different devices and platforms. Users can access, organize, and share assets from any internet-connected device, eliminating the need for device-specific applications and simplifying the user experience while maintaining versatility.

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

2Ease of operation

If automatic organization and tagging features are implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but processing time and system resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates tags and organizes assets as they are uploaded, rather than requiring post-processing. This preliminary action approach ensures assets are immediately searchable and organized upon arrival, improving ease of operation while distributing processing over time as assets are received rather than concentrating it in a single batch operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If comprehensive security features like virus scanning are added, then reliability is improved, but processing speed and productivity decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity and reliabilityVSAvoidprocessing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Virus scanning and security checks are performed continuously in the background as assets are uploaded or accessed, rather than as a separate batch process. This allows the system to maintain comprehensive security scanning while minimizing impact on user productivity, as the scanning occurs concurrently with normal asset management operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS11899683B2Digital asset management system
Publication Date: 2024.02.13 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

A digital asset management system (DAMS) provides an integrated user experience for the rapid and facile manipulation of a users digital assets in an online environment. Spanning the spectrum of digital assets, the DAMS system set forth herein enables users to tag, fitter, collect, and show such digital assets in a manner which requires preferably minimal user interaction in order to achieve digital asset management and exhibition. Sharing among friends and family becomes much easier and incoming digital assets may be automatically segregated according to user choices or history to enable easier management of such assets. Recognition of relationships, characteristics, features, and the like between different assets may occur automatically and develop an ongoing fashion to enable association of such similar assets into “collections” or the like.