Digital Asset Vault for Legacy Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack a comprehensive and user-controlled method for creating, collecting, sharing, and curating digital content, particularly life experiences and personal histories, while ensuring secure and controlled access after the user's lifetime.
Innovation Solution
A digital asset vault system that allows users to create, collect, and curate multimedia content using augmented and virtual reality, with machine-learning techniques for content curation, secure cloud storage, and customizable access controls, including the option to designate digital rights trustees and store DNA for ancestry verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users store digital content in existing systems, then content can be accessed and shared, but users lose control over their digital legacy and content accessibility after their lifetime
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows users to pre-designate digital rights trustees and set access conditions before they need them. Users can specify who should access their content and under what conditions (e.g., after death, during incapacity) in advance, ensuring continuous control over their digital legacy without requiring real-time intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces digital rights trustees as intermediaries who manage content access on behalf of users when they are unable to do so themselves. These trustees act as mediators between the user's digital assets and other parties, ensuring secure and controlled access according to the user's predetermined wishes.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users share digital content with others, then content accessibility improves, but security and access control become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments access control by creating different levels and types of trustees (e.g., primary trustee, contingent trustee, category-specific trustee) with specific permissions for different content categories. This allows fine-grained control over who can access what content under what conditions, making the system both versatile and manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The access control system is dynamic, allowing trustees to be activated or deactivated based on predetermined conditions such as the user's death, incapacity, or other life events. The system automatically adjusts access rights without requiring complex manual reconfiguration, balancing versatility with ease of management.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If comprehensive digital content is stored for future generations, then digital legacy preservation improves, but data security and verification challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system collects and verifies ancestry information in advance while the user is alive and can provide accurate information. DNA samples are collected and stored beforehand, creating a verified baseline for future identity verification without requiring complex verification processes when content needs to be accessed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates cryptographic copies and hashes of DNA data and other verification information, storing these securely without needing to physically handle or re-verify the original biological samples. This allows efficient and secure verification of ancestry claims without compromising the integrity of the original biological materials.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are described herein to enable the automated and/or user-guided creation, collection, and curating of digital content items that represent a user's experiences, personality, interactions, and legacy. A digital trustee may be assigned to control access to the content after the death of the user. A user may create a death file with content items to be handled in a specific (e.g., user specified) manner after the death of the user. For example, the contents of the death file may be released to a family member or deleted by the system entirely.