Remote Tip Distribution with Random User Rewards

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic transaction systems fail to enhance user motivation for tipping by providing unpredictable and potentially high-value rewards, lack flexibility in reward distribution, and do not facilitate strong connections between users and recipients, especially when they are geographically distant.

Innovation Solution

An electronic transaction management system that allows users to tip remotely, aggregates tips for specific recipients, randomly distributes a portion of tips among users, and offers flexible reward types including cash, points, and messages, enabling unpredictable and potentially high-value rewards, while allowing recipients to post visual content and messages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If tips are given only in person, then the connection between tippers and tip recipients is strengthened, but the opportunities to tip decrease when individuals are geographically distant

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection strengthVSAvoidtipping opportunity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an electronic transaction management system as an intermediary between tippers and tip recipients. This mediator enables tip transmission over distance while maintaining the essential tipping function, resolving the contradiction between physical presence for connection and geographical flexibility for opportunity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If offers are pre-established within a harmonious range for the tip amount, then the system is simple to manage, but user interest and motivation are not sufficiently improved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem manageabilityVSAvoiduser motivation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic offer determination where the reward amount and type are not fixed in advance but are determined based on the actual tip amount provided by the user. This dynamic adjustment creates unpredictable, potentially high-value rewards that exceed the tip amount, thereby enhancing user motivation while maintaining system manageability through automated calculation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Loss of energy

If the reward amount is limited to the tip amount provided, then the system remains financially balanced, but user expectations and interest are not enhanced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefinancial balanceVSAvoiduser interest
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter relationship between tip amount and reward amount. Instead of reward ≤ tip, the system allows reward > tip by offering multiple types of rewards (cash, points, merchandise) with varying values. The system dynamically adjusts reward parameters based on tip amount, enabling rewards that can exceed the original tip while maintaining overall financial balance through diversified reward options

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4641469A1Electronic transaction management system for providing a tip
Publication Date: 2025.10.29 NAGAO TSUKASA
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AI summary

The present invention provides an electronic transaction management system for providing a tip that enables the users who give tips and the tip recipient to send and receive tips, even when located away from each other; that provides tip distribution to a user randomly selected from all users; that can be expected to improve the interest due to the expectations for the distribution, and as a result, enhance the motivation for users to give tips; that enables increasing the strong sense of connection between the users and the tip recipients; and that enables elevating the mere act of giving tips to a kind of event. An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic transaction management system for providing a tip, the system comprising: a management server, the management server and a user device, wherein the management server comprises a distribution means for distributing an arbitrary percentage, an arbitrary amount, or other forms of an arbitrary tip transferred from the user device, to a recipient of distribution for the tip, a user selected randomly by the management server from all users giving a tip, and distributing the remaining percentage, the remaining amount, or other forms to the tip recipient or the like.