Incentive Management System for User Activity Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Tracking event objects associated with user interactions in response to information stored on publicly accessible databases is a complex task, and existing systems lack effective mechanisms to incentivize user engagement and reward users for specific actions within software applications.
Innovation Solution
An incentive management system integrates software code via webhooks to detect and reward specific user activities, allowing application providers to configure and monitor actions, thereby incentivizing users and promoting organic growth, user retention, and content creation within mobile apps.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If webhooks are integrated into software applications to track user activities, then user engagement and content creation are incentivized, but device complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an incentive management system as an intermediary layer between the application provider and the user reward distribution. This mediator handles the complex tasks of tracking user activities through webhooks, validating actions, managing reward budgets, and distributing incentives, thereby reducing the implementation burden on application providers while maintaining high user engagement through effective reward mechanisms
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive activity tracking is implemented to monitor user actions, then precise incentive distribution is achieved, but information processing requirements and system resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial monitoring by selectively tracking only specific user actions that are predefined as incentivizable activities. Rather than comprehensively monitoring all user behaviors, the webhook integration focuses on detecting particular actions of interest to the application provider, thereby achieving sufficient measurement precision for incentive distribution while minimizing unnecessary computational resource consumption
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AI summary
An incentive management system may receive a request for registration of a software application from a software developer and assign at least an API key and an API secret to the software application. The system may further provide, to the software developer, integration instructions including at least the API key and the API secret and provide a developer platform to the software developer, the developer platform configured to receive program information including at one or more actions that may be performed by a user of the software application. The system may monitor messages from one or more application servers, such as via webhooks embedded in the software application, regarding performance of one or more actions identified as actionable by the software developer. The system may periodically determine a cumulative incentive associated with each of the users of the software application and coordinate provision of the incentives.