Authenticity Platform Provenance Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack effective methods for authenticating the provenance of web-based resources and end users, leading to uncertainties in trustworthiness and security during web actions and content interactions.
Innovation Solution
The Authenticity Platform determines the provenance of web locations and content, generating message data based on trust levels to display the trustworthiness of sources, and manages relationships within Authentic Networks through Anonymized Membership IDs and customized URLs, ensuring authentication and privacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional authentication systems are used for web locations and content, then implementation is simple, but trustworthiness and security cannot be effectively verified
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an authenticity platform as an intermediary system that mediates between web users and web resources. This platform generates authenticity credentials and manages provenance verification, acting as a trusted third party that enhances reliability without requiring direct complex verification mechanisms at every web location. The intermediary handles the complexity of trust verification centrally while maintaining simple integration points for end users and web sites.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary authentication by generating authenticity credentials and establishing provenance information before web actions occur. The authenticity platform pre- verifies web locations, content, and user identities, creating trust credentials in advance. This preliminary action ensures that when web interactions occur, the verification is already complete, improving reliability without adding real-time complexity to web transactions.
2Reliability
If provenance verification is implemented for all web resources, then security and authenticity are improved, but processing time and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The authenticity platform performs provenance verification in advance by generating authenticity credentials and establishing trust relationships before web interactions occur. Web locations, content, and users are pre-authenticated, and their provenance information is stored and made readily accessible. This eliminates the need for time-consuming verification during actual web transactions, as the trust credentials are already established.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and distributes authenticity credentials and provenance information as copyable verification tokens. Once a web location or content is verified, its authenticity credential can be copied and presented multiple times without requiring repeated verification processes. This copying mechanism allows fast verification of already-authenticated resources, significantly reducing verification time while maintaining comprehensive provenance checking.
3Reliability
If comprehensive authentication of web actions and content is performed, then trust relationships are established, but ease of operation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The authenticity platform enables self-service authentication where web users and web locations automatically receive and present authenticity credentials without manual verification. The system autonomously manages provenance tracking, credential generation, and verification presentation. Users simply interact with the authenticated interface, and the platform handles the complex authentication processes in the background, maintaining high authentication accuracy while preserving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The authenticity platform acts as an intermediary that manages the complexity of comprehensive authentication behind the scenes. It handles credential verification, provenance validation, and trust relationship management, allowing end users to interact with web resources through a simplified interface. The intermediary absorbs the operational complexity while providing a user-friendly experience that maintains high authentication standards.
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AI summary
An authenticity software platform receives an indication of an external web action and determines a first provenance for a first external web location at which the web action occurs. The authenticity software platform determines a second provenance for an external result occurring in response to the web action. The authenticity software platform determines an extant of trust based at least in part on the first and the second provenance for the result.