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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack a satisfactory method for user-directed transmission of credentials between enterprises, leading to inefficient and offline processes for credential submission and verification.

Innovation Solution

A user-centric application that enables secure, user-consented exchange of data between enterprises by aggregating user data into a profile, allowing users to selectively share verified data with designated entities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users share all requested data by default, then enterprises can perform necessary and desired processes efficiently, but users lose control over data usage and privacy

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprocess efficiencyVSAvoiduser control over data

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a user-controlled data sharing platform that acts as an intermediary between users and enterprises. This platform enables users to selectively share verified data and credentials with enterprises through a standardized interface, maintaining both process efficiency and user control. The intermediary manages credential verification, data aggregation, and selective sharing without requiring users to directly interact with each enterprise.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to self-manage their data sharing preferences, credential verification, and access control through the platform. Users can independently configure which data to share, with whom, and under what conditions, eliminating the need for default broad sharing while maintaining efficient enterprise access to necessary credentials.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of information

If enterprises store all user data, then complete user profiles can be analyzed for insights, but data becomes vulnerable to piracy and liability

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata completenessVSAvoiddata piracy risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts sensitive user data from enterprise storage and places it in a user-controlled centralized platform. Only verified credential data is stored centrally, while enterprises access only the specific credential information needed for their processes. This extraction removes the incentive for data piracy while maintaining data completeness for analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates verified copies of user credentials that can be shared across multiple enterprises without duplicating the original sensitive data. Enterprises receive authenticated credential copies through the standardized interface, enabling complete profile analysis across enterprises without any single enterprise storing all user data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If credential verification is performed offline using paper, then credentials can be verified, but the process cannot be incorporated into digital workflows

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecredential verificationVSAvoiddigital workflow integration

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical paper-based credential verification system with a digital automated system. The platform provides standardized digital interfaces and protocols for credential verification that integrate seamlessly into digital workflows, eliminating the need for paper handling while maintaining verification reliability through cryptographic authentication.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Measurement precision

If enterprises update user data only through direct interactions, then data accuracy is maintained, but data becomes outdated when user information changes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata accuracyVSAvoiddata currency

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system establishes continuous automated data synchronization between the user-controlled platform and enterprises. When users update their credentials or data through the platform, changes are automatically propagated to all connected enterprises, maintaining both data accuracy and currency without requiring direct user-enterprise interactions for each update.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12326958B2Privacy vault

Publication Date: 2025.06.10 SAP SE

AI summary

Systems and methods include reception of a first user interface from a data requestor, display of the first user interface on a display, launch of an application to provide the requested data, display of a second user interface of the application overlaid on the first user interface, reception of identifiers of shareable data from a data provider and display of the identifiers in the second user interface, reception of an indication, via the second user interface, of a set of the shareable data to share with the data requestor, transmission of an authorization to the data provider to store the set of shareable data in a data storage, and transmission of a second authorization to the data storage to share the set of shareable data with the data requestor.