Barcode Data Integrity Verification in Distributed Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data security technologies face challenges in ensuring the integrity and validation of data in distributed technological environments, particularly in scenarios involving electronic terminals and servers, where unauthorized access and data manipulation can occur.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method using a central data management system that generates and verifies alphanumerical data sequences and barcodes through one-way hashing algorithms, ensuring data integrity by comparing user inputs against stored values and transmitting validation notifications in real-time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data is transmitted and stored in distributed systems, then information availability and accessibility are improved, but data integrity and security are worsened due to unauthorized access and manipulation risks
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary hashing of terminal data to generate alphanumerical sequences and barcodes before transmission and storage. This pre-processing ensures that the original data can be verified against its hash representation, preventing unauthorized manipulation while maintaining data accessibility across distributed systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces hash algorithms and barcode representations as intermediary elements between the original terminal data and its storage/transmission forms. These intermediaries serve as verifiable proxies that maintain data integrity without exposing the actual sensitive information, thus securing data while enabling distributed access.
2Reliability
If real-time validation is implemented to ensure data integrity, then security is improved, but processing time and system complexity are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-generates hash-based alphanumerical sequences and barcodes during data entry at terminal machines. This preliminary action shifts the computational burden to the initial data capture phase, enabling rapid real-time validation later without significant processing delays, thus improving security while minimizing time loss.
3Reliability
If multiple validation checks are performed on terminal data, then data integrity is improved, but device complexity and operational difficulty are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates simplified copies of the original data in the form of hash-based alphanumerical sequences and visual barcodes. These copies serve as verification tokens that can be easily compared and validated without requiring complex analysis of the original complex data, thus maintaining information integrity while reducing system and operational complexity.
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AI summary
In some embodiments, the present invention provides for a computer-implemented method, including: electronically receiving, first terminal data where the first terminal data includes at least one first alphanumerical data sequence; electronically generating at least one first computer-generated barcode; electronically storing the first terminal data and the at least one first computer-generated barcode in at least one database residing in a non-transient computer memory; automatically and electronically transmitting the at least one first computer- generated barcode to the at least one first terminal machine; electronically receiving second terminal data; automatically validating, in real-time, the user input as being representative of the user output.