GUI Content Tracking Markers for User Interaction and Fraud Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content providers lack effective methods to track and quantify user interactions with digital content, particularly on mobile devices, leading to inefficiencies in understanding consumer behavior and engagement.

Innovation Solution

A system that automates the tracking of user navigation events by displaying partitioned digital content blocks with tracking markers, generating quantified interaction data, and segregating user profiles for fraud detection and purchase analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If automated tracking of user navigation events is implemented, then user interaction data collection is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction trackingVSAvoidtracking system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically tracks user navigation events without requiring manual feedback collection. Tracking markers are automatically placed on digital content blocks, and user interactions are automatically recorded and processed, eliminating the need for manual survey administration and response coding.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The tracking system serves multiple functions: it monitors user navigation events, collects interaction data, identifies fraudulent activities, and provides analytics for content optimization. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a single integrated solution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If fraud detection and user segmentation are implemented, then transaction security is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefraud detectionVSAvoiduser profile processing
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

User profiles are segmented and fraud detection rules are established in advance based on tracking marker interactions. By pre-defining fraud indicators and user segments before actual transactions occur, the system can quickly match incoming events against predefined criteria rather than analyzing each event from scratch.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Manual fraud analysis and user segmentation processes are replaced with automated computational algorithms. The system uses machine learning models and pattern recognition to automatically identify fraudulent behaviors and segment users, replacing time-consuming manual review processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If personalized user interactions are implemented, then user engagement is improved, but data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoiddata processing
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the most relevant interaction data from user navigation events, focusing on specific tracking marker engagements rather than processing all possible user actions. This selective data extraction reduces processing requirements while maintaining personalization effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Personalization is applied locally to specific user segments and interaction contexts rather than uniformly across all users and all data. The system tailors content and interactions based on locally relevant user characteristics and behaviors identified through tracking markers, processing only the data necessary for each specific personalization instance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20250233927A1Quantifying GUI digital content access using tracking markers to restrict fraud events
Publication Date: 2025.07.17 TRUIST BANK
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AI summary

A system for automating GUI digital content tracking is used to conduct a back end navigation event in which partitioned digital content blocks are sequentially displayed via an agent GUI. The system receives, in the back end navigation event, in association with at least some of the displayed partitioned digital content blocks, respective agent inputs indicating tracking markers within the partitioned digital content blocks. The system further establishes automated tracking of downstream user navigation events in which the partitioned digital content blocks are displayed in user GUIs, and generates tracking data including quantifications of user interactions, in the tracked downstream user navigation events, with the indicated tracking markers. At least a portion of the tracking data is displayed in a back end evaluation event.