AI Model Access Keys for Secure User Equipment Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication systems lack standardized mechanisms for securely providing artificial intelligence or machine learning models to user equipment, verifying user subscriptions, managing model access, and preventing unauthorized use or distribution of models.
Innovation Solution
Introduce a data model repository function (DMRF) that manages user equipment identifiers, model identifiers, access keys, and subscription statuses, ensuring secure access and updating of models based on subscription and version changes, while preventing unauthorized access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If AI/ML models are provided to user equipment without standardized access mechanisms, then model deployment flexibility is improved, but security and unauthorized use prevention deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements access control by changing the parameter state of model access through subscription-based authorization. The system transitions from open access to controlled access by verifying subscription status and generating time-limited access keys, thereby preventing unauthorized use while maintaining deployment flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism between the model provider and user equipment. The access key generation and verification system acts as a mediator that controls model access, ensuring security without restricting the underlying flexibility of model deployment across different devices and scenarios.
2Reliability
If access control mechanisms are implemented for AI/ML models, then security and unauthorized use prevention are improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the access control system into distinct functional modules: subscription management, access key generation, and access verification. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive security control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses access keys as simplified copies or representations of authorization credentials. Instead of implementing complex continuous authentication, the system generates access keys that encapsulate authorization information, simplifying the verification process while maintaining security.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If model access is restricted by subscription verification, then unauthorized distribution is prevented, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary subscription verification and access key generation before model access is required. This preliminary action ensures that authorization is established in advance, preventing unauthorized distribution while allowing users to access models conveniently once authorized, without repeated verification overhead.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: receive (500), from a model provider function, a user equipment identifier and a model identifier; generate (502) an access key to allow a user equipment identified by the user equipment identifier to access a model identified by the model identifier; store (504) the user equipment identifier and the model identifier along the access key to allow a user equipment identified by the user equipment identifier to access a model identified by the model identifier; and send (506), to the user equipment, the access key.