Scalable Data Scaffolds for Semantic File Understanding
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Solution Overview
Problem
File hosting services lack the ability to understand the underlying data of unstructured digital files, limiting collaboration and analysis capabilities due to their reliance on file type-specific viewers and inability to recognize meaningful relationships between files.
Innovation Solution
A data management platform that represents digital content as a semantic graph using structured data, employing universal data scaffolds to define content types, enable intelligent connections, and support zero-knowledge encryption and offers, while maintaining user privacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If file hosting services use file type-specific viewers to display digital files, then file compatibility is maintained, but the service cannot understand the underlying data structure or meaning
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data representation into two independent layers: the original unstructured digital content (preserved as-is) and a new structured data scaffold layer that describes the content's meaning and structure. This allows the system to maintain compatibility with existing viewers while gaining structured data understanding through the scaffold layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The data scaffold acts as an intermediary between the unstructured digital content and the file hosting service's processing capabilities. The scaffold translates and describes the underlying data structure without requiring changes to the original files or existing viewers, enabling the service to understand data meaning while preserving backward compatibility.
2Productivity
If the service stores digital files as unstructured data, then storage simplicity is maintained, but collaboration and analysis capabilities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal data scaffold that can represent multiple types of digital content (documents, images, videos, audio) using a common structured format. This multi-functional scaffold enables the service to provide unified collaboration and analysis capabilities across different file types without requiring separate processing systems for each content type.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically generating data scaffolds when digital content is uploaded, before the content is stored or shared. This preliminary structuring enables subsequent collaboration and analysis features to operate directly on the structured data without requiring additional processing steps later.
3Loss of information
If the service provides intelligent data representation and analysis, then data understanding improves, but user privacy may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary structural information from the digital content to create the data scaffold, separating this metadata extraction from the actual content storage. The scaffold captures relationships and structure without copying or analyzing the full content, thereby enabling data understanding while minimizing privacy exposure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a conceptual copy of the data structure through the scaffold representation rather than working with the original content. This copy allows the service to analyze, search, and collaborate on data structure and relationships without accessing or exposing the actual sensitive content, thus protecting user privacy while enabling intelligent operations.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a system to provide information associated with a user device from a server to the user device without disclosing the association to the server. Data structures, created at the server, contain information such as information about restaurants, mechanics, medical conditions, etc. The server creates bundles including two or more data structures containing disparate information, and a unique identifier for each bundle. The server creates a table of contents indicating the unique identifier of a bundle and the information contained in the bundle and sends the table of contents to the device. The server receives the unique identifier of the bundle and provides the bundle having the unique identifier to the device. While the bundle contains the information associated with the user device, because the bundle contains disparate information. the server does not know which information is associated with the user device.