Unified Information Transaction Device for Personal Data Approval

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing systems for sharing and providing personal information require separate approvals and efforts, making the process complicated and inefficient as they involve different systems for sharing and provision approvals.

Innovation Solution

An information transaction device that integrates sharing and provision approval processes, allowing users to approve and instruct the sharing and provision of personal information within a single device, connected to an information holding device, which simplifies the approval process and reduces efforts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If separate systems are used for sharing approval and provision approval of personal information, then the approval processes can be handled independently, but the overall process becomes complicated and requires more effort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapproval process reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines separate approval systems for information sharing and provision into a single integrated information transaction device. This device handles both sharing approvals (between operators) and provision approvals (to data application operators) through unified interfaces, reducing system complexity while maintaining reliable approval processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of manufacture

If separate systems are used for sharing approval and provision approval, then each system can be optimized independently, but the user effort and time required increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem implementation easeVSAvoidapproval time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The information transaction device merges multiple approval functions into a single platform, allowing users to manage both sharing and provision approvals in one place. This integration reduces the time users spend navigating between systems while maintaining the ability to optimize each approval type independently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The information transaction device serves multiple functions: it handles sharing approvals between operators, provision approvals to data application operators, and provides a unified interface for users. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate systems while maintaining ease of implementation for each specific function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple separate systems are used for different approval types, then each system can be specialized, but the overall effort and complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapproval system adaptabilityVSAvoiduser operation ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The information transaction device provides a universal platform that adapts to different approval scenarios: sharing approvals between operators and provision approvals to data application operators. Users interact with a single versatile system rather than multiple specialized systems, improving ease of operation while maintaining adaptability to different approval types.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12130944B2Information transaction device, information transaction method, and program
Publication Date: 2024.10.29 NEC CORP
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AI summary

An information transaction device is connected to an information holding device including a storage unit storing personal information and includes a sharing approval reception unit configured to receive approval of sharing of the personal information by an information sharing destination device from a user associated with the personal information, a provision approval reception unit configured to receive approval of provision which is transmission of the personal information to an information provision destination device, from the user associated with the personal information, a sharing instruction unit configured to, in a case where the sharing approval reception unit receives the approval of the sharing, instruct the information holding device to perform the sharing, and a provision instruction unit configured to, in a case where the provision approval reception unit receives the approval of the provision, instruct the information holding device to perform the provision.