Digital Backpack for Cross-Platform Entitlement Portability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in accessing and utilizing their digital entitlements, such as avatars, subscriptions, and in-game currencies, across different applications and platforms due to the lack of a centralized and portable system for managing digital entitlements, leading to a fragmented user experience and limited interoperability.
Innovation Solution
A digital backpack system that allows users to consolidate and manage their digital entitlements through an API, enabling seamless transfer and utilization across various platforms, with a unified layer on the backend server and integration with a digital wallet for financial management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital entitlements are managed separately in each application, then each application can maintain its own entitlement system, but users experience fragmentation and cannot access entitlements across platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a digital backpack as an intermediary system that mediates between users and multiple applications. The backpack consolidates digital entitlements from various sources (games, applications, services) into a unified portable storage system, enabling cross-platform access without requiring direct integration between each application. This intermediary layer resolves the contradiction by providing universal access (improving versatility) while maintaining a manageable centralized structure (controlling complexity).
Solution Approach 2:
The digital backpack is designed as a universal entitlement management system that can store, manage, and port various types of digital entitlements (in-game currencies, subscriptions, avatars, etc.) across different platforms and applications. This multi-functional universal system replaces the need for separate entitlement systems in each application, thereby improving cross-platform versatility while consolidating complexity into a single versatile platform.
2Productivity
If users must re-acquire digital entitlements for each application, then each application can provide full access to entitlements, but users experience redundant acquisition processes and lost time
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by consolidating and pre-organizing digital entitlements in the digital backpack before they are needed in specific applications. Users acquire entitlements once and have them pre-stored in the portable backpack system, eliminating the need to re-acquire them for each application. This preliminary consolidation action directly reduces the time and effort required for subsequent entitlement acquisition across multiple platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital backpack creates portable copies of digital entitlements that can be replicated and transferred across different applications and platforms. Instead of requiring users to re-acquire entitlements, the system generates transferable copies that maintain the original entitlement's value and functionality while enabling reuse across different contexts, thereby improving acquisition efficiency and eliminating time loss.
3Adaptability or versatility
If digital entitlements are not portable, then each application can maintain complete control over entitlements, but interoperability between platforms is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The digital backpack system introduces dynamic portability to previously static entitlement management. Entitlements transition from being fixed within single applications to being dynamically transferable between different platforms and applications. The system maintains reliable control mechanisms while enabling flexible interoperability, allowing entitlements to move adaptively across different digital ecosystems based on user needs and platform capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and storage media for managing digital entitlements are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: determine at least one digital entitlement; generate a digital backpack; select a third party platform; generate an application program interface (API) call associated with the at least one digital entitlement to a third party application; and store the at least one entitlement in the digital backpack.