Biometric Hash String Conversion for Secure Identity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional identification and payment methods, such as credit cards, contribute significantly to environmental waste due to their toxic materials and disposal issues, while biometric technologies offer superior security but are impractical for everyday transactions.
Innovation Solution
A biometric authorization system that converts biometric hash strings into alpha numeric devices for secure identity representation, enabling easier and more accessible transactions by encoding, encrypting, and decrypting these strings for validation and transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional identification methods (credit cards, PVC materials) are used, then transactions are easy and accessible, but environmental waste and toxicity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital copy (alpha-numeric device) that represents the biometric identity, allowing the physical biometric sample to be preserved while its functional equivalent is used for transactions. This eliminates the need for physical cards that generate waste.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the physical mechanical system (PVC cards, plastic materials) with a digital/information-based system (biometric hash strings converted to alpha-numeric devices). This substitution eliminates the material waste associated with conventional physical identification media.
2Reliability
If biometric technology is used for authentication, then security is improved, but transaction speed and practicality deteriorate due to long processing times
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs the computationally intensive biometric analysis and hash string generation in advance, before the actual transaction occurs. This preliminary processing allows rapid verification during the actual transaction, maintaining high security while improving speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts only the essential identifying features from the full biometric data set, converting them into a condensed hash string and then an alpha-numeric device. This extraction reduces the amount of data that needs to be processed during transactions, improving speed while maintaining security.
3Reliability
If biometric hash strings are converted into alpha numeric devices, then security is enhanced through encryption, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary conversion process that transforms complex biometric data into simplified hash strings, and then into even simpler alpha-numeric devices. This intermediary representation maintains the security benefits of encryption while reducing the complexity of actual transaction processing.
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AI summary
A process for completing transactions using biometric data, including include possible redundancies to ensure the accuracy of the transaction, and the system needed to perform the process. The process entails obtaining a biometric sample, extracting a biometric hash string from the biometric sample, converting the biometric hash string into an alpha numeric device, using the alpha numeric device to convey an identity, and equating the alpha numeric device to an identity with an account or membership.