Uniform Data Package Labeling for Cross-Entity Product Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity and variability in how entities identify and describe their products and services, particularly data products, leads to inefficiencies and increased operational risk in automation, tracking, and manual comparison is required, making it difficult to manage and automate the handling of large numbers of products and services across multiple providers and consumers.
Innovation Solution
A method for generating a uniform package identifier (UPID) that combines alphanumeric product and service attribute codes, allowing for standardized identification and management of data products and services, facilitating automation in tasks such as invoice processing and data product comparison.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If entities use their own identifiers and descriptors to track products and services, then each entity can accurately identify its own products, but manual comparison is required to differentiate products across entities, increasing operational burden and reducing automation efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal standardized identifier system that can be used across multiple entities and industries. This identifier encodes multiple attributes (product type, specifications, origin, etc.) into a single standardized format, allowing one identifier to serve multiple functions: identifying the product, describing its characteristics, and enabling comparison across different vendors without manual intervention
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms product identification from using multiple separate descriptors to using a single encoded identifier that contains all necessary information. By changing the parameter representation from multiple text fields to a structured coded format, the system enables automated processing while maintaining precise product identification and differentiation capabilities
2Adaptability or versatility
If different vendors use entirely different descriptors to describe data products, then each vendor can describe their products in their own fashion, but consumers must manually compare descriptors from each vendor, increasing time consumption and reducing productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized identifier serves as a universal language that works across all vendors and product types. It captures essential product attributes in a consistent format, allowing consumers to compare products from different vendors directly without manual descriptor analysis, thereby maintaining versatility while dramatically improving comparison efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The identifier is segmented into distinct components that represent different product attributes (type, specifications, origin, etc.). This segmentation allows the system to maintain detailed product information while presenting it in a standardized, easily comparable format that improves productivity without losing descriptive flexibility
3Reliability
If manual review is required to verify product matches, then accuracy can be maintained, but automation is interrupted and operational overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized identifier system enables products to self-identify and self-differentiate through their encoded attributes. The identifier itself contains all necessary information for accurate matching and verification, allowing automated systems to reliably verify product matches without manual review, thus maintaining reliability while eliminating time loss
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for automatically managing and utilizing the uniform labeling of data packages are disclosed. Specification information can describe many aspects of a data package, and can be analyzed to automatically identify various product attributes and service attributes usable to define the data package. Each of the individual product attributes and service attributes can be encoded into an alphanumeric code, which can be concatenated together to form a single uniform package identifier (UPID) usable to describe the associated data product. Systems and methods can automatically generate UPIDs, automatically find data packages based on search UPIDs, automatically process invoices based on UPIDs, and otherwise leverage the UPIDs to automate the collection, creation, selling, purchasing, trading, redistribution, and/or using of data packages.