Anonymous Message Routing via Data Stripping and Intermediary Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for anonymous message sending often require registration, pseudonym accounts, or personal data, reducing anonymity as they can trace the sender's identity through payment solutions and message delivery links.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enable anonymous message sending and response via a communication network, using an anonymity service that generates unique message IDs, encrypts, and compresses messages, and employs anonymization networks like ToR or Freenet, without retaining sender or recipient data, allowing for secure and untraceable communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional payment solutions (credit card payments) and registration systems are used, then message delivery and sender identification are enabled, but sender anonymity is reduced because the link between sender and message can be retrieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes all personally identifiable information from the message delivery system. The anonymity service strips sender and recipient data from messages before routing them, ensuring that no link between the sender's identity and the message content remains in the system. This allows reliable message delivery while completely eliminating sender identification capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an anonymity service as an intermediary between the sender and recipient. This mediator receives messages from senders, removes all identifying information, and forwards the anonymized messages to recipients. The intermediary ensures that neither the sender nor recipient can be traced back to each other, maintaining both delivery reliability and complete anonymity.
2Ease of operation
If pseudonym accounts and personal data provision are required, then message sending capability is enabled, but complete anonymity cannot be achieved as data could lead to sender identification
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service anonymity system where users can send messages without registration or account creation. The anonymity service automatically generates unique message identifiers and handles all routing without requiring users to provide any personal data. This maintains ease of operation while ensuring complete anonymity by eliminating data collection entirely.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the message delivery process into distinct anonymous stages: message submission with generated ID, anonymized routing through the service, and delivery to recipient. Each stage operates independently without requiring personal information, allowing users to send messages easily while maintaining complete anonymity throughout the entire process.
3Adaptability or versatility
If sender and recipient data are retained in the system, then message routing and response capability are enabled, but anonymity is compromised as data links can be retrieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary anonymization by generating unique message identifiers and removing all personal data before messages are stored or routed in the system. This preliminary action ensures that even though the system must retain some data for routing and response purposes, the anonymity is preserved from the outset because no identifiable information exists in the system to begin with.
Solution Approach 2:
The anonymity service acts as an intermediary that enables response capability through unique message identifiers without storing any personal data. The service links responses to original messages using these anonymous identifiers, allowing versatile two-way communication while maintaining complete anonymity since the intermediary never possesses or retains sender or recipient identification information.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method and a system that enable a sender to send a message to a recipient in an anonymous way, allowing the recipient to respond to the sender after receiving the message. No data related to the sender and the recipient are retained in the system.