Anonymous Communication Key Generation and Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in communicating effectively during social events due to discovery, privacy, and memory issues related to sharing contact information, such as not knowing, wanting to protect, or remembering email addresses of others.
Innovation Solution
A system generates and shares a random key for anonymous communication sessions, allowing devices to register actual communication identifiers without exposing them, enabling secure and efficient communication by using proximity and contextual information to facilitate key sharing and email forwarding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users share actual communication identifiers (email addresses, phone numbers) directly, then communication can be established, but privacy is compromised and memory burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary key mechanism where a random key is generated and shared among devices during a communication session. This key serves as a mediator that allows devices to communicate without exposing their actual communication identifiers. The key is transmitted through the collaboration platform and can be shared via multiple devices, enabling indirect communication while preserving privacy.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users collect contact information from multiple users during social events, then communication connectivity improves, but time consumption and error rates increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple communication channels and devices into a single unified key-based communication system. Instead of collecting and managing separate contact information from multiple users, the system combines all communication paths through a shared random key that can be transmitted through any number of devices, simplifying the process into a single action.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary key generation and distribution before actual communication is needed. The random key is created and shared during the communication session setup, allowing users to communicate immediately without needing to collect contact information beforehand.
3Ease of operation
If actual communication identifiers are registered with the collaboration platform, then message routing is enabled, but security and anonymity are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication identification process into two separate components: the actual communication identifier (kept private on the device) and the random key (shared with the platform and other users). This segmentation allows the platform to perform message routing using the key without having access to or storing the actual communication identifiers, thus maintaining anonymity while enabling functionality.
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AI summary
An approach is provided for generating and/or sharing of at least one key upon registering communication identifiers associated with one or more devices for an anonymous communication session. The approach involves causing, at least in part, a generation of at least one key associated with at least one anonymous communication session. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, a transmission of the at least one key to one or more devices. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, a registration of one or more actual communication identifiers associated with the one or more devices to the at least one anonymous communication session based, at least in part, on receiving the at least one key from the one or more devices, wherein the registration does not expose the one or more actual communication identifiers to the one or more devices of the at least one anonymous communication session.