Personal Data Choice Management for Multi-Service Privacy Control

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for controlling personal data protection in online communications are tedious, complex, and do not effectively allow users to manage their data choices across multiple services, leading to inadequate user experiences and service provider inefficiencies.

Innovation Solution

A centralized personal data management platform that allows users to define their data processing preferences, which are then encrypted and communicated to online services through a trusted intermediary, ensuring secure and efficient adherence to user choices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manage personal data choices on a case-by-case basis for each service, then user control precision is improved, but operation complexity and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser control precisionVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by having users define their personal data processing preferences in advance through a standardized interface. These pre-defined choices are then automatically applied across multiple services, eliminating the need for repeated manual configuration for each service while maintaining precise user control over data usage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements universality by creating a multi-service platform that handles personal data choice management across numerous services simultaneously. A single set of user-defined preferences is universally applied across multiple services, reducing repetitive operations while maintaining service-specific adaptability through the standardized interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If users provide detailed personal data choices for each service, then data processing control is improved, but service provider complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata processing controlVSAvoidservice provider complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the intermediary principle by introducing a standardized interface that acts as a mediator between users and service providers. This interface translates user preferences into service-specific configurations automatically, ensuring reliable data processing control while shielding service providers from the complexity of implementing detailed choice management across multiple services.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements parameter changes by transforming user-defined preferences into standardized parameters that can be automatically processed by services. The system changes the representation of user choices from complex service-specific configurations to uniform parameters that simplify service provider implementation while maintaining precise control over data processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If personal data management is handled individually for each service, then user specificity is improved, but system-wide efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser specificityVSAvoidsystem-wide efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements universality by creating a multi-service platform that handles personal data choice management across numerous services simultaneously. A single set of user-defined preferences is universally applied across multiple services, reducing repetitive operations while maintaining service-specific adaptability through the standardized interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies preliminary action by having users define their personal data processing preferences in advance through a standardized interface. These pre-defined choices are then automatically applied across multiple services, eliminating the need for repeated manual configuration for each service while maintaining precise user control over data usage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12413397B2Personal data choice management platform

Publication Date: 2025.09.09 ID SIDE

AI summary

A network communication method for accessing a service on a remote system by a client system includes receiving data from a user personal data management system, the data including at least one definition of at least one choice of a user for processing personal data associated with the user, the at least one definition being associated with an identifier of the user, transmission of a connection request to the remote server including at least the definition associated with the identifier, establishing a first communication between the client system and the remote system, and establishing a second communication from the remote system to the client system, the second communication being authorized by the management system, based on the definition.