Beacon Authentication via Unique Code Broadcast
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for secure authentication systems and methods that verify the authenticity of user electronic devices and activities, particularly in commercial contexts, to prevent fraudulent activities and ensure secure beacon authentication via mobile devices.
Innovation Solution
The system employs a mobile electronic device with a verification element that communicates with servers via networks to authenticate the device and user activity, using GPS, cellular networks, and verification elements with modulating codes to ensure authenticity and prevent fraudulent actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If mobile electronic devices are used increasingly in commercial activities, then user convenience and accessibility are improved, but security risks and fraudulent activities increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces verification elements as intermediary devices deployed at commercial venues that mediate between mobile devices and the authentication system. These verification elements broadcast unique codes that mobile devices must verify, creating a secure intermediary layer that enables convenient usage while preventing fraud by ensuring the device is actually at the intended location.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the authentication server continuously verifies device behavior patterns, location data, and verification element codes against expected parameters. When anomalies are detected (such as devices attempting authentication from unexpected locations or using invalid verification codes), the system provides feedback to block the authentication, thus maintaining security while allowing legitimate users to operate freely.
2Reliability
If authentication verification processes are implemented, then security and fraud prevention are improved, but system complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication system is segmented into distinct components: verification elements deployed at venues, mobile devices with authentication clients, and a central authentication server. Each component handles specific tasks independently - verification elements generate and broadcast codes, mobile devices capture and transmit data, and the server validates authenticity. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity by distributing functionality rather than requiring a monolithic complex system.
Solution Approach 2:
Verification elements perform preliminary actions by pre-generating and broadcasting unique authentication codes before user interaction occurs. The system also pre-establishes expected behavior patterns and location parameters in databases. When authentication is needed, the mobile device simply needs to capture the current verification element code and compare it against pre-stored expectations, significantly reducing the complexity of real-time authentication processing.
3Measurement precision
If multiple verification methods are used, then authentication accuracy is improved, but processing time and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial verification by requiring mobile devices to perform only the minimum necessary authentication actions. Instead of continuously monitoring all device parameters, the system uses verification elements to provide location-bound authentication codes that must be validated. This partial action approach maintains high authentication accuracy by focusing verification efforts only at critical authentication moments rather than continuously, thereby reducing energy consumption.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for secure beacon authentication via mobile devices are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a verification element comprises: a memory storing a plurality of non-repeated verification codes; a wireless broadcast element; and a processing circuit electronically coupled to the memory and the wireless broadcast element, the processing circuit being configured to retrieve one of the non-repeated verification codes from the memory and to transfer the non-repeated verification code to the wireless broadcast element, the wireless broadcast element being configured to wirelessly broadcast the non-repeated verification code to a plurality of mobile devices for individual verification of the plurality of mobile devices, the non-repeated verification code being different than any other non-repeated verification code previously retrieved from the memory and used for individual verification of the plurality of mobile devices.