Electronic Token Synchronization for Automatic Multi-Token Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems require users to manually update multiple electronic tokens individually when information changes, leading to inefficiencies and potential delays or failures in electronic transactions due to outdated token information.
Innovation Solution
A token management system that monitors online activity and automatically updates multiple tokens associated with a user based on detected changes in one token, without explicit user requests, ensuring synchronized and secure token data across all affected tokens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If users manually update multiple electronic tokens individually when information changes, then each token can be updated precisely, but the process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual token update operations into a single bulk update operation. When a user's information changes, the system automatically identifies all tokens associated with that user and updates them simultaneously through one interface, eliminating the need for multiple separate update actions while maintaining update accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary identification of all tokens associated with a user before the update operation. By pre-fetching and caching the list of tokens linked to a user account, the system prepares the update targets in advance, allowing rapid bulk updates when information changes occur without requiring real-time queries during the update process.
2Ease of operation
If users update tokens individually, then each token can be controlled separately, but transaction failures may occur due to outdated information in some tokens
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides self-service automatic token synchronization. When a user's information is updated in the system, the token management system automatically detects the change and propagates it to all associated tokens without requiring user intervention. This ensures all tokens remain synchronized with current user information, preventing transaction failures due to outdated data.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where token usage and information consistency are continuously monitored. When discrepancies or outdated information are detected in tokens, the system automatically triggers update operations to synchronize token data with the current user profile, ensuring reliability across all tokens.
3Extent of automation
If a token management system monitors all online activity to detect changes, then automatic updates can be triggered, but system complexity and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and monitors only the specific online activities that are relevant to token updates, such as user profile changes, account information modifications, and personal data updates. By filtering out irrelevant activities and focusing only on those that trigger token synchronization needs, the system reduces monitoring complexity while maintaining effective automatic update capabilities.
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AI summary
Disclosed methods and systems include monitoring, by a computer system, online activity associated with a plurality of entities and a plurality of user devices that have respective pluralities of tokens provided by the token management system. The computer system may detect particular online activity related to a first token of a first of the pluralities of tokens, associated with a first user device. The computer system may determine that the particular online activity affects a status of the first token. In response to the determining, the computer system may modify data within the first token using information within the particular online activity. In response to identifying a second token of the first plurality of tokens, the computer system may determine that the particular online activity also affects a status of the second token, and modify, without receiving input from the first user device, the second token using the information.