Digital Badge Matching for Cross-Industry Skill Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies fail to appropriately match workers with the necessary skills to business operators across different industries, leading to inefficiencies in job placement.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that issues digital badges based on an operator's work skills and recommends appropriate business operators or workers based on badge information and work content details.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If digital badges are issued based on work skills and used for job matching, then job matching accuracy between business operators and workers is improved, but system complexity increases due to badge management and matching algorithms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvejob matching accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments skill evaluation into discrete digital badges that can be independently issued, managed, and matched. Each badge represents a specific skill or competency, allowing the complex skill assessment process to be broken down into manageable units that can be easily stored, retrieved, and compared during job matching operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Digital badges serve as an intermediary element between skill assessment and job matching. Rather than directly comparing complex skill profiles, the system uses badges as a standardized medium that bridges the gap between worker capabilities and business operator requirements, simplifying the matching process while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If job matching is limited to same industry, then matching reliability is improved, but adaptability of workers to different industries deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematching reliabilityVSAvoidindustry adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The digital badge system creates a universal skill representation that can be applied across different industries. Badges represent transferable competencies that have value beyond a single industry context, enabling workers to be matched with business operators in different industries while maintaining matching reliability through standardized skill verification.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameters of job matching from industry-specific criteria to skill-based criteria represented by digital badges. This parameter transformation allows the matching system to evaluate workers based on their actual competencies rather than their industry background, enabling cross-industry matching while maintaining reliability through objective skill measurement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250182005A1Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
Publication Date: 2025.06.05 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

An information processing system (1) according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a badge management unit (60) that issues a digital badge in accordance with a work skill of an operator to the operator based on work information on work performed by a target to be operated by a remote operation of the operator and prior information on the work; and a job matching unit (63) that recommends an appropriate business operator to the operator or an appropriate operator to a business operator based on badge information on a result of issuance of the digital badge and work content information on a work content presented by the business operator.