Online Data Collection System for Asset Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

As online communities grow, managing and processing the increasing amount of shared data becomes challenging, necessitating innovative solutions for data collection and processing that enable user interaction, asset management, and consumer-to-consumer transactions within these communities.

Innovation Solution

An online closet community platform that allows users to upload and manage assets, interact with other members, and facilitate transactions by receiving, storing, and processing user data, including features like asset status changes, compatibility-based offer delivery, and user-activated advertising, utilizing a system with modules for data collection, processing, and display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If online communities grow in membership and data sharing, then community functionality and user interaction increase, but data management complexity and processing challenges increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunity functionalityVSAvoiddata management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments data management into modular functional modules including data collection module, data processing module, and data storage module. Each module handles specific aspects of data management independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive functionality for growing online communities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary data processing layer that mediates between data sources (users, devices) and data storage systems. This intermediary layer standardizes data formats, filters information, and manages data flows, thereby simplifying data management complexity as the community expands.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If real-time data processing is implemented to enable user interaction and transactions, then user engagement improves, but system resource consumption and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction capabilityVSAvoidsystem resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements periodic data processing cycles where data is collected, processed, and updated at scheduled intervals rather than continuously. This periodic approach maintains real-time interaction capabilities for users while significantly reducing system resource consumption by processing data in manageable batches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent processes only the necessary portion of data required for current user interactions rather than processing all available data continuously. This partial processing approach enables timely user engagement while conserving system resources by avoiding unnecessary processing of irrelevant or already-processed information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Productivity

If comprehensive data collection is performed to enable personalized advertising and offer delivery, then advertising effectiveness improves, but user privacy concerns and data security risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising effectivenessVSAvoiduser privacy risks
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by collecting and processing only the specific data elements necessary for particular advertising purposes rather than comprehensively collecting all user data. Different data collection strategies are applied to different user groups and contexts, reducing privacy risks while maintaining advertising effectiveness through targeted data gathering.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where user responses to advertising offers are collected and used to refine future advertising delivery. This feedback loop enables improved advertising effectiveness through learned user preferences while maintaining privacy by processing feedback data in aggregated forms and using it only for refining advertising strategies rather than exposing individual user information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11620682B2Apparatus and method for online data collection and processing
Publication Date: 2023.04.04 MIJEM
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AI summary

The disclosure is directed at a method for data collection and processing within an online system which monitors a user's activity on the online system and then creates a list of business offers for display to the user. The list of business offers is not displayed to the user until the user performs an action relating to a request to review the list of business offers.