Intermediary Data Access Platform for Granular Consent Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional consent management systems are expensive and time-consuming to update, especially for data recipients who need to integrate with multiple data providers, as they require separate integrations and lack granular control capabilities.
Innovation Solution
An intermediary data access platform is introduced between the data recipient and provider, enabling granular consent management by standardizing capabilities and providing additional security features like mTLS and certificate-bound tokens, allowing a single data recipient to access multiple providers without overhauling existing systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If granular consent management is implemented at the data provider back end system, then data recipient gets fine-grained control over data access, but system overhaul is required which is expensive and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a data access platform as an intermediary layer between data recipients and data providers. This platform assumes the role of the consent management system, allowing data recipients to access granular consent data without requiring the data provider to implement complex consent management infrastructure. The intermediary handles the complexity of consent management while maintaining simple provider systems.
2Ease of operation
If data recipients integrate separately with each data provider, then direct control over data access is achieved, but costs increase dramatically with the number of data providers
Solution Approach 1:
The data access platform provides a universal interface that allows data recipients to access multiple data providers through a single standardized connection. Instead of requiring separate integrations with each provider, the platform handles multiple providers uniformly, reducing integration costs and complexity while maintaining direct access control capabilities.
3Adaptability or versatility
If consent management systems are updated at data provider systems, then granular control capabilities are improved, but implementation is expensive and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The data access platform acts as an intermediary that provides granular control capabilities without requiring updates to data provider systems. The platform handles consent management queries and data access control, allowing providers to maintain their existing systems while recipients gain enhanced granular control over data access.
4Device complexity
If data provider systems lack granular consent management, then system simplicity is maintained, but data recipient cannot achieve fine-grained data access control
Solution Approach 1:
The data access platform serves as an intermediary layer that enables fine-grained data access control for data recipients while maintaining the simplicity of data provider systems. The platform handles the complexity of granular consent management and data access control, allowing providers to remain simple while recipients gain sophisticated control capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
By interposing a data access platform between a data receiver and a data provider, many tasks may be simplified, enhanced or enabled. For one example, granular consent management may be facilitated. Upon receiving, at the data access platform, a first request for user account details, the data access platform may determine that the first request includes a first token that has been issued to the data receiver by the data access platform. The data access platform may, responsively, transmit, to the data provider, a second request for user account details. In particular, the data access platform may include, in the second request, a second token that has been issued to the data access platform by the data provider. The token management by the data access platform may be shown to allow the data access platform to provide, to the data receiver, more granular user account details than are available from the data provider.