Digital Code Card Segmentation for Authorization Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for improved user convenience in managing and utilizing digital cards connected to digital codes, particularly in accessing online and offline areas, as existing solutions lack efficient methods for digital card management and authorization.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that allows a service providing server to generate and manage digital codes connected to multiple digital cards, enabling partner terminals to input information for generating digital codes, and user terminals to scan and utilize these codes for authorization, with features like digital card selection, expiry date management, and message handling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a digital code is connected to multiple digital cards, then user convenience and accessibility are improved, but authorization control and security management become more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidauthorization control
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the digital code into multiple independent digital cards, each with its own usage state. This allows a single digital code to be divided into multiple accessible cards while maintaining individual control over each card's authorization status, resolving the contradiction between ease of access and authorization control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the server tracks usage status of each digital card and communicates this information back to user terminals. This enables real-time authorization control and prevents unauthorized access while maintaining user convenience through automated state management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If digital cards are tracked and monitored for usage, then security and unauthorized access prevention are improved, but system complexity and data management requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoiddata management
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables digital cards to self-manage their usage states through automated server-side tracking. The server automatically monitors which cards have been used and communicates this information to terminals, eliminating the need for complex manual data management while maintaining strong security and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If used digital cards are deactivated to prevent unauthorized access, then security is improved, but user convenience and card utilization flexibility are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveunauthorized access preventionVSAvoidcard utilization flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically manages card states, transitioning cards from active to deactivated based on usage conditions. This dynamic state management allows the system to maintain security by deactivating used cards while preserving user convenience through automated state changes and flexible card utilization options.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system temporarily deactivates used digital cards rather than permanently discarding them. This allows cards to be recovered and reused after appropriate intervals, maintaining security through temporary deactivation while preserving user convenience and card utilization flexibility through recovery mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #34Discarding and recovering

Data Source

PatentUS12118429B2Service providing method based on digital card connected to digital code and apparatus for performing the method
Publication Date: 2024.10.15 KAKAO CORP
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AI summary

A method and apparatus for providing a service based on a digital card connected to a digital code are provided. A service providing server is configured to generate a digital code connected to a service account of a partner terminal by connecting a plurality of digital codes selected by the partner terminal to a digital code and a user terminal is configured to use a digital card associated with the a user account among the plurality of digital cards connected to the digital code by scanning the digital code displayed on an online area and an offline area.