User Application Store Platform for Data Control and Monetization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current app stores and social networks do not allow users to create and manage their own user applications, customize the user interface, or monetize their user base effectively, while celebrities and influencers lack control over their data and content on external platforms.
Innovation Solution
A user application store platform that enables users to develop, upload, and manage their own applications, integrate with parent applications, and access user data, allowing for customization, monetization, and direct interaction with followers, while also creating a contextual user base for external networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users register on social networks and use existing app stores, then they can access applications and contents, but they do not have control over their user base, data, and content, and cannot monetize effectively
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the user base into multiple independent user applications that can be created, managed, and monetized separately. Each user application acts as an independent entity with its own user base, allowing users to segment their audience and control data independently while integrating with the parent social network platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces user applications as intermediary layers between users and the parent social network platform. These user applications serve as mediators that enable users to access, control, and monetize their data and content while maintaining integration with the parent platform's infrastructure.
2Quantity of substance
If celebrities and influencers use external platforms like Facebook and Instagram, then they can reach large audiences, but they lack control over their followers data and content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables celebrities and influencers to segment their large user base into multiple independent user applications. Each application can be managed separately with its own user base, allowing them to maintain control over their data and content while preserving access to their large audience across different applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal framework where a single parent social network platform supports multiple user applications with different functions and purposes. This allows celebrities to create specialized applications for different audiences or content types while maintaining overall control through the unified platform architecture.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users want to create and manage their own applications, then they can customize and monetize, but current app stores do not enable this capability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent provides preliminary frameworks, templates, and tools within the user application store that enable users to create applications without building from scratch. Users can leverage pre-established infrastructure, authentication systems, and integration APIs to rapidly develop and launch their own applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The user application store acts as an intermediary platform that bridges users with the parent social network's infrastructure. It provides development tools, APIs, and integration mechanisms that simplify the application creation process while enabling full customization and monetization capabilities.
4Adaptability or versatility
If users want to access and monetize their user base directly, then they can control their data, but existing platforms do not provide this mechanism
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments user data and user bases into separate, controllable units within different user applications. This segmentation allows users to access and control their data selectively across applications while maintaining integration through the parent platform's unified data management system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables dynamic parameter changes in data access rights and privacy settings within user applications. Users can modify access parameters, share data selectively, and control monetization options without changing the fundamental system architecture, allowing flexible data management while maintaining system integration.
Data Source
AI summary
In various embodiments, receiving request to publishing or listing and making searchable, the user application of a user and receiving, a request from a parent application of the user, to open one or more user applications. Receiving, from the first user, follower information indicative of one or more other users including second user and third user to be followed by the first user and storing the follower information in the storage. Receiving from a first application associated with the first user from a first source, first content for distribution, receiving from a second application associated with the second user from a second source, second content for distribution. Identifying followers of the second user and the third user and sending the message to the followers of the second user, including the first user and sending the message to the followers of the third user, including the first user.