Digital Wallet Asset Update via Centralized Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital wallet systems on mobile devices are difficult to update once installed, making it challenging for businesses to manage and maintain digital representations of assets such as boarding passes and coupons.
Innovation Solution
A digital wallet asset management platform that allows businesses to create, manage, and distribute digital assets by generating and updating them on users' devices through a centralized system, using templates, metadata tags, and various delivery channels like email, SMS, and push notifications, ensuring seamless updates across different mobile operating systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If digital wallet assets are installed on mobile devices, then users can access and use digital representations of assets (coupons, tickets, boarding passes), but updating these assets becomes difficult and requires manual intervention
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic self-updating of digital wallet assets through background synchronization mechanisms. The mobile device automatically checks for updates and downloads new asset data without requiring user intervention, allowing the asset information to update itself in the background while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the mobile device continuously communicates with the asset management server to check for updates. The server provides feedback about available updates, and the device automatically retrieves and installs them, creating a closed-loop system that eliminates manual update requirements.
2Productivity
If a centralized asset management system is implemented to enable easy updates, then asset updating becomes automated and efficient, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized asset management server as an intermediary between asset providers and mobile devices. This server handles all update operations, data storage, and distribution logic, thereby automating asset management while keeping the mobile device software relatively simple. The server acts as a mediator that manages the complexity centrally rather than distributing it to end devices.
3Reliability
If automatic update mechanisms are implemented across multiple mobile operating systems, then update timeliness is improved, but compatibility and system complexity challenges arise
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a universal update mechanism that operates across multiple mobile operating systems (iOS, Android, etc.). The asset management server provides platform-agnostic update delivery, and the mobile application implements cross-platform compatibility layers that handle OS-specific requirements. This universal approach ensures timely updates are delivered reliably across diverse operating systems while managing compatibility challenges through standardized interfaces.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for updating a digital wallet installation is disclosed. Event information is received. The received event information is evaluated against a set of rules. A digital wallet asset logical instance to be updated is identified based at least in part on the evaluation. The identified instance is updated. An installation of a digital wallet asset associated with the identified instance is identified. An update instruction is provided to a device associated with the installation.