User-Specific Transaction Interface for Automated Discount Discovery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inefficiencies in navigating through multiple pages and applications to find desired items and discounts, consuming significant time and resources when engaging in transactions.

Innovation Solution

A user-specific transaction interface is generated based on analyzing user data to identify potential transactions, providing selectable inputs for engaging in modified transactions with opportunities like coupons or partnership contracts, displayed on the user's device.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users navigate through multiple pages and applications to find desired items and discounts, then they can access comprehensive information, but it consumes significant time and resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation accessibilityVSAvoidtransaction time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by analyzing user data before the transaction occurs to identify potential transactions and search for opportunities to modify terms. This includes searching user datastores, partnership datastores, and networks in advance to find applicable discounts, coupons, or partnership contracts before the user needs to complete the transaction, thereby eliminating the need for manual navigation during the transaction process itself

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary mechanism that automatically mediates between the user and multiple data sources. Instead of the user manually navigating through multiple pages and applications, the system acts as an intermediary that searches user datastores, partnership datastores, and networks to find relevant transaction modifications, then presents customized transaction interfaces that incorporate found opportunities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If the system searches multiple datastores and networks for transaction opportunities, then transaction accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements multi-functionality by using a unified search mechanism that can query multiple different datastores (user datastore, partnership datastore) and networks simultaneously. This universal search approach allows the system to maintain high transaction accuracy by comprehensively searching for opportunities while avoiding the complexity of separate dedicated search systems for each data source

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs feedback mechanisms where the search results from multiple datastores and networks are processed to generate customized transaction interfaces. The feedback loop involves searching for opportunities, determining modified transaction versions, and presenting these to the user through notifications and selectable inputs, which then feed back into the system for continuous optimization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If a customized transaction interface is generated for each user, then user experience is improved, but processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experienceVSAvoidprocessing resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by generating customized transaction interfaces based on the most relevant search results rather than processing every possible data point. It searches for opportunities to modify terms and generates customized interfaces only when relevant findings are made, avoiding excessive processing resources while still providing personalized user experiences through selective customization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20250292258A1System and method for generating and providing user-specific transaction interface
Publication Date: 2025.09.18 YAHOO ASSETS LLC
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AI summary

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating a user-specific transaction interface are provided. In an example, a datastore of a user may be searched for an indication of a potential transaction. The datastore may include an email mailbox and/or a record of web browsing. In response to identifying the potential transaction, the datastore of the user, a partnership datastore and/or a network may be searched for an opportunity associated with the potential transaction. In response to identifying the opportunity associated with the potential transaction, a user-specific transaction interface may be generated. The user-specific transaction interface may include one or more selectable inputs for engaging in a version of the potential transaction. The user-specific transaction interface may be provided for display on a device of the user.