Biogenetic Data Encryption via False Information Intermediary

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Solution Overview

Problem

The intensely private nature of biogenetic information requires robust security measures to protect its privacy, especially as it is increasingly used for personal identification, and existing solutions fail to adequately safeguard this sensitive data.

Innovation Solution

A method involving an encryption device that retrieves authentic genetic information, generates false genetic information, encrypts it, assigns identifiers, transmits it for analysis, receives and decrypts the analysis to parse the authentic information, ensuring secure handling and protection of biogenetic data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If false genetic information is generated and encrypted to protect authentic genetic information, then security and privacy protection are improved, but device complexity and processing steps increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesecurityVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces false genetic information as an intermediary element that mediates between the need for security and the requirement for data utility. The false information acts as a protective layer that allows encrypted genetic data to be analyzed without exposing authentic sensitive information, thereby improving security while maintaining system functionality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments genetic information into authentic and false components, allowing differential handling of data elements. By dividing the genetic information dataset and applying encryption selectively to false information segments, the system achieves enhanced security without requiring complete system complexity increase

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If encryption and decryption processes are applied to genetic information analysis, then data privacy is protected, but processing time and operational complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata privacyVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies encryption to false genetic information in advance before the analysis process begins. This preliminary encryption action ensures that when decryption occurs during analysis, only the pre-encrypted false information needs processing, significantly reducing the time penalty compared to encrypting/decrypting entire datasets in real-time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies encryption selectively only to false genetic information rather than encrypting the entire genetic dataset. This partial action approach maintains data privacy for sensitive authentic information while avoiding the excessive processing time that would result from comprehensive encryption of all genetic data

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS9639704B2Biogenetic information security

Publication Date: 2017.05.02 KT CORP

AI summary

In one embodiment, an encryption device may retrieve authentic genetic information from a genetic information database, generate false genetic information based on the authentic genetic information, encrypt the false genetic information to produce encrypted genetic information, assign identifiers to respective segments of the encrypted genetic information, transmit the encrypted genetic information to be genetically analyzed to a gene analyzer, receive, from the gene analyzer, an analysis of the encrypted genetic information, and decrypt the analysis of the encrypted genetic information to parse the analysis of the authentic genetic information.