Personal Digital Identifier Management System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems lack an efficient method to manage and locate personal digital identifiers scattered across multiple data elements and storage devices, particularly in compliance with stricter privacy and security regulations like GDPR, which require precise control over personal data access and location.

Innovation Solution

A computerized method and system that receives personal digital identifiers, searches for patterns across multiple data elements, identifies and validates candidate identifiers, and stores a personal digital footprint, including location, while allowing users to manage and report their data, with features for priority assignment, data transport, and access permission changes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If personal digital identifiers are stored across multiple data elements and storage devices, then data accessibility and distribution are improved, but locating and managing these identifiers becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata distributionVSAvoidmanagement complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a search engine as an intermediary component that mediates between users and the distributed storage system. The search engine receives search queries, searches across multiple data elements and storage devices for personal digital identifiers, and returns relevant results. This intermediary abstraction layer simplifies the user interface and manages the complexity of locating identifiers scattered across the system without requiring users to directly interact with the complex storage architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive search across all data elements is performed, then identification accuracy is improved, but search time and processing resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification accuracyVSAvoidsearch time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary actions by pre-defining patterns of personal digital identifiers and pre-processing data elements to extract and index identifiable information. The search engine uses these pre-defined patterns to quickly match against stored data, and pre-extracted features are prepared in advance to facilitate rapid searching. This preliminary preparation enables accurate identification while reducing the time required during actual search operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If candidate identifiers are automatically assigned, then processing efficiency is improved, but false positive increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoididentification reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the search engine provides candidate personal digital identifiers to users for validation. Users can confirm whether the automatically assigned candidates are correct, and this feedback is used to refine future identifications. The system allows users to correct false positives and confirm accurate identifications, creating a feedback loop that improves both processing efficiency through automation and reliability through user verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11386224B2Method and system for managing personal digital identifiers of a user in a plurality of data elements
Publication Date: 2022.07.12 VARONIS SYSTEMS INC
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AI summary

A method for managing personal digital identifiers of a user in data elements stored in a computerized system may include receiving personal digital identifiers for identifying a user. The data elements may be searched for the personal digital identifiers and data elements may be identified as having the personal digital identifiers of the user. One or more candidate personal digital identifiers in the identified data elements may be assigned as one or more common words appearing in the identified data elements when a word count for each of the one or more common words exceeds a predefined threshold. The user may validate the candidate personal digital identifiers, which may be added to the personal digital identifiers of the user. A personal digital footprint of the user including a location in the computerized system for each of the personal digital identifiers in the identified data elements may be stored.