Aggregated Digital Credential System with Verification References
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic credential systems face challenges in aggregating, verifying, and managing personal credentials across multiple issuers, leading to data duplication, synchronization issues, and difficulties in establishing relationships between documents in the digital context, which complicates user experience and verification processes.
Innovation Solution
A digital credential system that aggregates information from multiple issuers into a portable, electronically verifiable package, using references to original data elements instead of duplicating them, with a confidence level indicating the issuer's relevance, and employing a query syntax to express relationships between data elements for verification purposes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data is duplicated across multiple issuers for portability, then credential verification becomes more independent, but data synchronization becomes difficult and storage efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a copy of the original credential data package and stores it with the new issuer. This copy contains all necessary information to verify credentials independently, eliminating the need for continuous synchronization with the original issuer while maintaining verification reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The credential system is segmented into independent data packages that can be separately issued, stored, and verified. Each issuer receives an independent copy of the credential data, allowing autonomous verification without requiring centralized coordination or synchronization.
2Reliability
If multiple separate documents are used to represent different credentials, then each credential can be independently verified, but user experience becomes complex and document management becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple separate credential documents are merged into a single aggregated credential package that contains references to all individual credentials. This unified package simplifies user interaction while maintaining the ability to verify each individual credential independently through its embedded references.
Solution Approach 2:
The aggregated credential package serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a unified container for multiple credentials, provides centralized management interface for users, and enables independent verification of each credential through embedded references to original data packages.
3Quantity of substance
If references to original data elements are used instead of duplicating them, then storage efficiency improves, but verification complexity increases due to need to access multiple sources
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of storing only references, the system creates complete copies of the original credential data packages at each issuing point. This eliminates the need for complex verification processes that would require accessing multiple external sources, while still achieving storage efficiency through selective replication of only necessary credential data.
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AI summary
Various systems and methods for using credentials are described herein. In an example, the system is configured to generate and issue electronic credentials that may include aggregate credentials from various issuers. In another example, a query statement is used to express relationships between credential data elements and obtain a subset of data corresponding to the query.