Verified Mobile App Communication Through Location and IP Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile device platforms face challenges in securely and seamlessly sharing user-associated data between mobile applications, particularly in the context of micro-applications, due to authentication and verification issues.
Innovation Solution
A backend processing infrastructure verifies location information and IP addresses associated with a mobile device by hashing and comparing copies received from both the mobile application provider and the third-party application, ensuring secure data sharing through authenticated user contexts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If user data is shared between mobile applications, then data accessibility and functionality are improved, but authentication and verification challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a backend processing infrastructure as an intermediary between mobile applications. This backend receives data from multiple applications, verifies authenticity through multiple sources (device sensors, network information), and mediates data sharing. The intermediary architecture allows data accessibility while maintaining authentication reliability through centralized verification processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary verification actions by collecting and validating data from multiple sources before allowing data sharing. The backend processing infrastructure pre-verifies authenticity by comparing data from device sensors, network information, and application sources, ensuring authentication reliability is established before data accessibility is granted.
2Reliability
If verification processes are implemented between applications, then data integrity is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex verification processes from the mobile applications themselves and relocates them to a dedicated backend processing infrastructure. This separation allows data integrity verification to be performed with high reliability while the applications remain relatively simple. The backend handles the complexity of multi-source verification, sensor data validation, and cross-application authenticity checks.
3Measurement precision
If multiple data sources are verified, then authentication accuracy is improved, but data processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple verification processes into a unified backend processing system that handles data from device sensors, network information, and application sources simultaneously. By combining these verification streams into a single coordinated process rather than sequential checks, the system achieves high authentication accuracy while minimizing the time loss associated with multi-source verification.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for using device data to validate a mobile user are disclosed. In accordance with aspects, a method may include receiving, at a backend processing infrastructure of a third party and from a backend processing infrastructure of a mobile application provider, a first copy of location information and an IP address, wherein the location information and the IP address are associated with a mobile device; receiving, at the backend processing infrastructure of the third party and from a mobile application provided by the third party, a second copy of the location information and the IP address, wherein the mobile application provided by the third party is executed on the mobile device; and verifying, by the backend processing infrastructure of the third party, that the first copy of the location information and the IP address matches the second copy of the location information and the IP address.