Digital Family ID for Controlled Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current user authentication systems fail to effectively manage family or group relationships, particularly in scenarios where minors are involved, as they lack the ability to provide controlled digital representation and communication, leading to conflicts between maintaining privacy and providing necessary information for family-oriented experiences.
Innovation Solution
A digital family or group representation system where an adult can control communication, location information, and permissions for all members, using a secured relational database or blockchain to create a digital family ID that includes children's information, allowing for controlled exposure and interaction with external entities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If digital ticketing is used to track attendees, then venue operators can identify purchasing patrons, but information about other family members remains obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the digital representation into hierarchical levels: individual user profiles, family group profiles, and extended social circles. Each segment maintains its own data while being linkable to others, allowing venue operators to access family relationship information without exposing unnecessary personal details of each member.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a digital representation intermediary layer that sits between raw personal data and external systems. This intermediary family group profile acts as a mediator, allowing venue operators to query family relationships and receive aggregated information without direct access to individual members' sensitive data.
2Loss of information
If children's personal information is made publicly available, then family relationships can be understood, but privacy and safety of minors are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different levels of information disclosure for different users within the same family group. Parental information can be fully disclosed while children's information remains protected, with granular control over what each member's data is shared externally.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts sensitive personal information from the public-facing digital representation. The family group profile contains structured data about relationships, but actual personal identifiers, contact information, and sensitive details of minors are excluded or encrypted, separating the relational structure from vulnerable personal data.
3Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive family information is collected, then better family-oriented experiences can be provided, but control and permissioning become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal digital representation structure that serves multiple functions: it enables family-oriented experiences, provides emergency contact information, manages permissions, and facilitates venue operations. This single structured framework handles diverse requirements without requiring separate complex systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic permissioning where access rights and information visibility can change based on context, user role, and situation. The system automatically adjusts what information is disclosed based on the requesting entity's needs and the user's preferences, making the permissioning system adaptive rather than static.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a communication system and method, among other things. As a non-limiting example, the method includes enabling access to entries of personal digital data for a plurality of users; enabling at least some of the personal digital data for the plurality of users to be retrieved by a query that contains an identification of a first user and authentication information associated with the first user; receiving a group identifier that is stored with reference to personal digital data of the first user; and distributing relationship digital data that describes a relationship between the first user and the second user based on the existence of the group identifier.