User Data Archiving via Temporary Reference and Server Containers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for managing user data, such as paper receipts and loyalty cards, face issues like document loss, illegibility, environmental risks, and lack of universality in recording and accessing purchase history and appointment details across various services.
Innovation Solution
A method for archiving user data on an online server, allowing data transmission from electronic devices to a database, generating a temporary reference for secure access, and copying data to a user's account, ensuring anonymity and security with encryption and automatic erasure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If user data is stored on paper documents (receipts, invoices), then the data can be retained and used as proofs of purchase, but the documents accumulate, are easily lost, become illegible over time, and pose environmental and health risks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical paper-based storage system with an electronic database system hosted on a server. User data is transmitted from electronic devices to the server and stored in containers within the database, eliminating the need for physical paper documents while maintaining data retention reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates electronic copies of user data in a database structure with containers and references. Instead of storing data on physical paper, the system creates digital replicas that can be accessed, viewed, and extracted without degrading the original data, thus eliminating environmental and health risks associated with paper while ensuring reliable data retention.
2Loss of information
If paper documents are used to record transaction data, then the data can be stored and referenced, but the documents are easily lost and become illegible over time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the physical paper document system with an electronic database system. Data is stored in digital containers on a server, which can be accessed indefinitely without degradation. The electronic storage medium has significantly longer retention capabilities compared to thermal paper, ensuring data remains readable and accessible over extended periods.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates persistent digital copies of user data in the database with structured containers and reference systems. These electronic copies can be retrieved, viewed, and extracted at any time without the degradation issues that affect paper documents, ensuring long-term data accessibility and eliminating the illegibility problem associated with aging paper.
3Adaptability or versatility
If specific chain systems with loyalty cards are used to record purchase data, then the data can be accumulated for that specific chain, but the system is not universal and cannot record detailed purchase history or exchange data with other systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal data storage system where user data from any shop or service can be transmitted to and stored in the same database structure. The system uses standardized containers and references that can accommodate data from multiple sources, enabling cross-chain and cross-service data accumulation while maintaining detailed purchase history and appointment information that chain-specific systems cannot provide.
4Ease of operation
If contactless payment systems like NFC are used to transfer data, then data can be transferred from merchant to client, but the system requires a smartphone, may appear insecure, and is not anonymous
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between the user's electronic device and the data storage system. Data is transmitted from the electronic device to the server through this intermediary, which handles the secure storage and management of data. This mediator approach enhances security and anonymity by preventing direct exposure of sensitive data while maintaining the convenience of electronic data transfer.
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AI summary
A method for archiving data relative to a user equipped with an electronic apparatus and having a user account on a server including a database, the method including: transmitting the data relative to the user from an electronic device to the server; storing the data relative to the user in a first container of the database of the server; generating, by the server, a temporary reference associated with the first container of the database; transmitting the temporary reference from the server to the electronic apparatus; accessing the data relative to the user from the electronic apparatus, a connection between the electronic apparatus and the server having been established previously.