Automatic User Identification on Anonymous Networks

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for user identification on anonymous networks are cumbersome, insecure, and prone to fraud, particularly in financial transactions, as they often require manual entry of sensitive information and lack robust verification processes.

Innovation Solution

An automatic user identification method that operates on anonymous networks, such as the Internet and cellular networks, which securely identifies users without revealing real-world information, using a unique user ID and associating it with control information to manage access and prevent fraud, without requiring user intervention or software installation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual user identification methods are used on anonymous networks, then users can access services, but security and fraud prevention deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesecurityVSAvoiduser identification process

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs user identification and verification without requiring manual user intervention. The network infrastructure itself conducts the identification process, eliminating the need for users to manually provide sensitive information while maintaining security through automated verification mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary identification system that acts between the user and the service provider. This intermediary automatically verifies user identity using network-based methods, preventing direct exposure of sensitive user information while maintaining security and trust.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If automatic user identification is implemented, then security and fraud prevention improve, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefraud preventionVSAvoididentification system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The identification system is designed to work universally across different network types and service providers without requiring separate complex implementations for each scenario. The same automated identification mechanism can be applied across various services, reducing overall system complexity through standardization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The complex identification and verification logic is extracted from individual service applications and implemented at the network infrastructure level. This centralization of identification functions reduces complexity at the application layer while maintaining robust fraud prevention capabilities through standardized network-based verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of operation

If users manually provide identification information, then service access is enabled, but data entry errors and fraudulent information entry increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice accessVSAvoiddata accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the network automatically verifies user identification information against trusted sources. This real-time verification provides immediate feedback on data accuracy, preventing entry errors and fraudulent information from being accepted while maintaining ease of service access.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The identification system automatically performs verification without requiring user input of sensitive data. The network infrastructure itself conducts the verification process, eliminating human errors in data entry while maintaining smooth service access through automated mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Adaptability or versatility

If user identification information is collected, then service personalization improves, but user privacy and trust deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice personalizationVSAvoiduser privacy risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary identification system that acts as a mediator between service providers and users. This intermediary collects and verifies identification information centrally, allowing service personalization while maintaining user privacy through controlled information handling and reducing the risk of improper access to personal data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs identification and verification automatically without requiring users to manually disclose sensitive information. This self-service approach enables service personalization based on automatically verified user identity while maintaining user privacy by eliminating direct user input of sensitive data and reducing exposure to privacy risks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS7756748B2Application of automatic internet identification methods

Publication Date: 2010.07.13 TRIVNET

AI summary

A method of controlling access to a service over a network, including the steps of automatically identifying a service user and acquiring user information, thereby to control the access. Additionally, a method of providing service over a network, in which the service requires identification of a user, including the steps of automatically identifying the user; and associating the user with user information, thus enabling the service.