Digital Trading Card Platform Using Machine-Readable Codes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional trading cards lack interactive technologies, making it difficult for stakeholders such as athletes, artists, consumers, and sponsors to engage digitally and for consumers to determine the value of trading cards effectively.
Innovation Solution
A digital trading card platform that uses machine-readable codes to link physical trading cards to digital representations, allowing for the querying of attribute data records, computation of value metrics, and presentation of associated content, enabling dynamic interactions and value determination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional trading cards are used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but digital engagement and interaction between trading cards and consumers is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds machine-readable codes within the physical trading card structure, creating a nested system where digital information is contained within the physical object. This allows the simple trading card to access a complex digital ecosystem for engagement while maintaining the simplicity of the physical card format.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces machine-readable codes as intermediary elements that bridge the physical trading card and digital engagement systems. These codes act as mediators that enable interaction between consumers and digital content without requiring complex modifications to the physical card itself.
2Measurement precision
If traditional trading cards are used, then the manufacturing process is simple, but consumers cannot easily determine the value of trading cards
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-embeds machine-readable codes and associates digital data with trading cards during the manufacturing process. This preliminary action enables accurate value determination through digital attributes while maintaining simple manufacturing procedures, as the codes are integrated into the card creation process rather than requiring post-production additions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If interactive technologies are integrated into trading cards, then digital engagement is enabled, but the complexity of integrating interactive technologies increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the trading card system into distinct components: the physical card with embedded machine-readable codes, the digital data layer, and the interaction interface. This segmentation allows interactive technologies to be integrated modularly, reducing overall integration complexity by treating each component independently while enabling comprehensive digital engagement when combined.
Data Source
AI summary
An approach is provided for trading card platform. The approach involves, for example, initiating a reading of a machine readable code from a trading card to determine a card identifier. The approach also involves querying for one or more attribute data records associated with the trading card based on the card identifier. The approach further involves computing a value metric based on the one or more attribute data records and presenting a user interface displaying a digital representation of the trading card, the one or more sponsorship data records, the value metric, or a combination thereof.