Digital Wallet Artifact Sharing Platform
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital wallets lack flexibility in managing contents, leading to unused or expired coupons, gift cards, and reward points, resulting in significant waste due to the inability to share these artifacts between users.
Innovation Solution
A digital wallet sharing platform that allows users to securely share specific artifacts, such as coupons, gift cards, and reward points, across multiple user devices, with customizable permissions for viewing and using, reducing waste by enabling users to utilize these items before they expire.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users store digital wallet contents locally on their own devices, then security and control are improved, but flexibility for sharing and managing contents with other users deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The digital wallet system segments content access by allowing users to share specific artifacts (coupons, gift cards, reward points) with selective permissions rather than requiring full wallet access. This segmentation enables controlled sharing while maintaining security of the overall wallet system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a shared artifact mechanism that acts as an intermediary between users' local digital wallets. This intermediary enables secure sharing by mediating access control, permission management, and artifact transfer without requiring users to expose their entire wallet contents or compromise local security.
2Ease of operation
If digital wallet contents are managed individually by each user, then user control is improved, but waste of unused items deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The shared artifact mechanism provides multi-functionality by enabling artifacts to serve both as individually controlled user assets and as shareable resources. Users can control access permissions while simultaneously enabling others to use their unused coupons, gift cards, and reward points, thus reducing waste without sacrificing user control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of artifact accessibility from strictly individual to selectively shared. By introducing permission parameters (view-only, use-with-permission, transfer permissions), the system transforms how users control their contents, enabling both individual management and collaborative utilization to reduce waste.
3Adaptability or versatility
If digital wallet sharing features are added, then flexibility and utility are improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the sharing functionality as a separate shared artifact mechanism independent of the core digital wallet system. This extraction allows complex sharing features (permissions, notifications, artifact transfer) to be implemented without fundamentally complicating the underlying wallet infrastructure, maintaining relative simplicity while adding flexibility.
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AI summary
A method for a shared resource management system is discussed. The method includes managing a shareable digital artifact for sharing between applications hosted by a user devices. The shared artifact is accessible, at the same time, by first and second application. The use of the shared artifact by the first application makes the shared artifact unavailable for use by the second application. The method includes determining whether a notification is received from the first application indicating that the shared artifact is used by the first application at a merchant. The method includes, in response to a determination that the notification is received, marking the shared artifact used. In response to marking the shared artifact used, a used artifact notification is sent to the second application to indicate that the shared artifact has been used and it is unavailable for use by the second application.