Personal Legacy Accounter for Contextualized Digital Remembrance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for memorializing an individual's legacy lack the ability to interweave an individual's selective aggregation of information items with contextualizations, failing to provide a comprehensive and personalized legacy profile.
Innovation Solution
A computing system platform that uses a personal legacy accountant to gather and contextualize an individual's life story through automatically obtained public records and personal records, allowing the individual to selectively choose and define their legacy profile.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If static artifacts like photo albums and personal belongings are used to memorialize an individual, then remembrance is possible, but the complete life story and contextual information remain untold and inaccessible
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the legacy preservation task into multiple components: static artifact collection, contextual information gathering, digital archiving, and narrative reconstruction. Each component handles specific aspects of the legacy, allowing comprehensive information preservation without overwhelming system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a digital legacy system as an intermediary between static artifacts and users. This intermediary collects, organizes, and presents contextual information about life stories, making incomplete artifact information accessible and meaningful without requiring direct complex analysis of each artifact
2Loss of information
If comprehensive contextual information about an individual's life is collected and preserved, then a complete legacy profile is created, but the system complexity and data management burden increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The digital legacy system performs multiple functions within a single unified platform: collecting artifacts, gathering contextual information, organizing data, storing records, and presenting narratives. This multi-functionality achieves comprehensive legacy profiles without proportionally increasing management complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables automated collection and organization of legacy information through self-service mechanisms. Users can contribute artifacts and contextual data independently, and the system automatically processes, categorizes, and integrates this information into the legacy profile, reducing manual management burden
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems described herein are directed to obtaining various types of information that can provide an accounting for an individual's legacy that can be replayed to learn about objects and/or experiences associated with the individual. A personal legacy accountant can generate a legacy profile using automatically obtained public records and personal records supplied by the individual, and afford the individual an opportunity to contextualize records for the profile. Through this contextualization, the individual can selectively define one or more perspectives for her legacy.