Independent Agent Location Verification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current location verification methods, such as GPS and triangulation, are inadequate in ensuring the accuracy and security of location data, particularly in preventing spoofing and ensuring the legitimacy of an entity's reported location, especially in critical situations like cargo transport or delivery tracking.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing independent agents, such as security cameras, mobile phones, and RFID technology, to verify an entity's location by generating a verification value based on credibility metrics, ensuring the location data is within a specified tolerance, and transmitting this value to confirm or reject the entity's reported location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple independent agents are used to verify location data, then reliability and anti-spoofing capability are improved, but device complexity and computational overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the verification function into multiple independent agents distributed across different locations. Each agent independently verifies location data from entities within its coverage area, eliminating the need for a single complex centralized verification system. This segmentation improves reliability through distributed verification while managing complexity by making each agent a simpler, standalone unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a verification value as an intermediary metric that mediates between raw location data from multiple agents and the final verification decision. This intermediary abstraction simplifies the complexity by providing a standardized way to aggregate and evaluate location data from multiple independent agents without requiring complex integration logic.
2Measurement precision
If independent agents generate verification values based on credibility metrics, then measurement precision of location data is improved, but loss of time for verification processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously monitoring and pre-evaluating the credibility metrics of agents before verification is actually needed. Agent credibility scores are maintained in advance based on historical performance, allowing the verification process to quickly retrieve and use pre-computed credibility values rather than calculating them from scratch during verification, thus reducing processing time while maintaining precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of credibility assessment from a dynamic, real-time calculation to a more stable, pre-determined metric that can be updated periodically. By transforming the credibility metric into a parameter that changes less frequently and can be pre-computed, the system reduces the time required for verification processing while maintaining measurement precision through the use of these pre-established credibility parameters.
Data Source
AI summary
A method that includes receiving, at an agent in a subset of a set of agents, a request to verify a location of an entity, the location of the entity made of unverified location data obtained from the entity, where each agent in the subset of agents satisfies a credibility metric specified in the request. The method also includes generating, at the agent, a second location data corresponding to the entity, causing, responsive to the generating, a computation of a verification value, and transmitting the verification value in a response, where the verification value is indicative of a rejection of the location of the entity responsive to the location of the entity failing to be within a tolerance value of the second location.