On-Widget Data Control for Visitor Information Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of social networking sites face challenges in controlling who views their visitor information, as current systems lack owner control over displayed visitor data and often result in undesirable associations, with visitors reluctant to register due to registration fatigue, affecting accuracy and missed opportunities.
Innovation Solution
A centralized registration system allows visitors and owners to selectively display or hide visitor information using on-widget data controls, enabling visitors to choose which sites display their information and owners to manage visitor visibility, while maintaining the ability to track visitor data for benefits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a centralized registration system is implemented to track visitor data, then the accuracy of visitor statistics is improved, but the complexity of the system increases and may cause registration fatigue
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple registration systems into a single centralized registration system that can be used across multiple social networking sites. This allows visitor data to be tracked accurately across sites without requiring separate registrations at each site, thereby improving measurement precision while managing system complexity through consolidation.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized registration system serves multiple functions: it tracks visitor data for statistics accuracy, enables selective display control, and works across multiple different social networking sites. This multi-functionality improves visitor statistic accuracy without proportionally increasing complexity, as the same system infrastructure serves multiple purposes.
2Loss of information
If visitors are required to register at each network site to capture unique information, then the completeness of visitor data is improved, but registration fatigue increases and reduces visitor engagement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the registration processes of multiple network sites into a single centralized registration system. Visitors register once and their information is shared across participating sites, maintaining data completeness while eliminating the need for repeated registrations at each site, thereby reducing registration fatigue and improving ease of operation.
3Productivity
If visitor information is displayed on social networking sites, then engagement and benefits are improved, but user control over visibility is reduced and undesirable associations may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic control mechanisms that allow visitors to adjust their visibility preferences in real-time. The system can dynamically display or hide visitor information based on user-selected preferences, enabling engagement and benefits while maintaining user control over visibility to prevent undesirable associations.
4Ease of operation
If a centralized registration system is used across multiple sites, then registration fatigue is reduced, but the complexity of data management and security increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized registration system that acts as an intermediary between multiple social networking sites and visitors. This intermediary handles data management and security centrally, reducing the burden on individual sites and simplifying the overall data management complexity while maintaining ease of operation for visitors.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method are directed towards enabling control of widgets using on-widget data controls. A visitor may enter selective personal information and determine what information is made available on a social networking webpage. A visitor to a social networking website may select to not have their information displayed at a social networking website, while still being displayed at another social networking website. A visitor's information may be displayed within a reader roll, an association listing, a visitor comment page, or the like. An owner of a social networking website may also select not to have a visitor's information displayed on the website. In one embodiment, selecting not to display information may be performed by ‘mousing’ over the information and selecting a display option. Social networking websites may look to a centralized registration system to determine whether to display the visitor information.