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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing databases face challenges in managing individual and organizational data due to consistency issues from uncoordinated entry, inefficiencies in utilizing available information, and increasing privacy regulations, particularly in handling non-unique features and ensuring data accessibility and privacy.

Innovation Solution

A graph-based database system that allows users to assign context attributes to data properties, enabling selective sharing and utilizing high-quality metadata from other databases, while ensuring privacy compliance through 'privacy by design' principles, allowing users to control data accessibility and entry methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If data is entered from multiple sources without coordination, then data coverage increases, but consistency and quality deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata coverageVSAvoiddata consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments data into distinct categories (contact data, profile data, organization data) with specific entry protocols for each type, allowing coordinated multi-source entry while maintaining consistency through category-specific validation rules

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where data quality metrics are monitored and communicated back to entry sources, enabling continuous improvement of data consistency while maintaining high coverage through iterative refinement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If all individual information is made accessible, then data utility increases, but privacy protection deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata utilityVSAvoidprivacy risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different access control levels to different data properties within the same database, allowing highly sensitive properties to remain restricted while making less sensitive properties broadly accessible, thus achieving both privacy protection and data utility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements dynamic access controls where data accessibility changes based on context, user credentials, and security policies, enabling the same data to be highly accessible in some contexts and completely restricted in others

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If manual data entry is required for all fields, then data accuracy increases, but entry efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata accuracyVSAvoidentry efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary automated validation, formatting, and verification of data fields before final submission, catching errors early and reducing the need for manual correction while maintaining high accuracy standards

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service data entry features including automated population from existing records, intelligent form filling, and self-validation mechanisms that reduce manual effort while maintaining data accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3189463B1Privacy by design database and methods operating thereon
Publication Date: 2020.08.19 AZTRIX NV
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AI summary

The invention relates to data bases for storing and handling data of individuals and organizations, architecture ((graphical) user interfaces, engines) of and methods for operating such databases, (graphical) interfaces suited for use of such databases and methods and underlying technology and related software.