Atomic Transaction Notification Service
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic transaction systems are vulnerable to hackers who can intercept and delete notification emails, leading to unauthorized transactions and delayed user awareness of transaction activities.
Innovation Solution
An improved technique delivers an aggregate transaction history message to user devices in atomic form, using a secure central server that receives transaction messages from various sources, formats them into a secure message, and transmits it over less secure channels, ensuring the message cannot be altered or deleted by attackers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate notification email messages are sent for each electronic transaction, then users receive timely notifications of individual transactions, but hackers can intercept and delete specific notification messages to conceal unauthorized transactions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual transaction notifications into a single aggregate notification message that includes a transaction history listing all transactions. This merging approach ensures that hackers cannot selectively delete individual transaction notifications while concealing unauthorized transactions, as the atomic structure of the aggregate message protects the integrity of the entire transaction history.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary aggregation of transaction notifications before delivery, creating a consolidated transaction history that is then delivered as a single atomic message. This preliminary action prevents hackers from interfering with individual transaction notifications, as the aggregation occurs before any potential interception or deletion attempts.
2Loss of information
If multiple separate notification messages are delivered to user devices, then comprehensive transaction information is provided to users, but the complexity of message management and delivery increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual transaction notifications into a single aggregate notification message that contains a transaction history listing all transactions. This consolidation reduces the number of separate messages that need to be managed and delivered, simplifying the message delivery system while maintaining complete transaction information.
Solution Approach 2:
The aggregate notification message serves multiple functions simultaneously: it notifies users of individual transactions, provides a comprehensive transaction history, and ensures security through atomic delivery. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate message types and simplifies the overall notification system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If notification messages are sent over less secure communication channels to reach user devices, then message delivery flexibility and reachability improve, but vulnerability to interception and alteration increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent delivers all transaction notifications as a single atomic aggregate message, which maintains integrity even when transmitted over less secure channels. The atomic structure ensures that the entire transaction history is delivered together, preventing hackers from intercepting and altering individual transaction notifications while maintaining delivery flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary aggregation and security formatting of transaction notifications before transmission over less secure channels. By consolidating all transaction information into a single atomic message structure before delivery, the system maintains security and integrity while enabling flexible delivery across various communication channels.
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AI summary
A technique is presented of providing, in an electronic central server, transactional information to a user. The technique includes receiving a set of transaction messages from a set of transactional information sources, each transaction message including respective transaction data. The technique also includes generating a transaction history from the set of transaction messages, the transaction history including the respective transaction data of each transaction message. The technique further includes delivering an aggregate message to a set of user devices, the aggregate message including the transaction history and being presented in atomic form to the user in order to prevent an attacker from excising particular transaction data from the aggregate message.