Biometric Query Mediator for Secure Emergency Health Data Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional biometric systems face challenges in securely identifying and accessing personal health information, especially in emergency situations where individuals are unable to provide their own biometric data, leading to delays and privacy risks due to the reliance on raw biometric data storage and transmission.

Innovation Solution

The development of a biometric query-resolution mediator using transformed biometric data to securely process queries for personal health or identification data over wireless networks, without storing or transmitting raw biometric data, ensuring privacy and security through biometric abstraction models and encryption techniques.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If raw biometric data is stored and transmitted for identification, then identification accuracy is improved, but privacy security and risk of data reconstruction worsen

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveidentification accuracyVSAvoidprivacy risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential identification features from raw biometric data by using pre-stored biometric templates. Instead of storing and transmitting complete raw biometric data, the system extracts and compares specific template characteristics, thereby achieving identification without exposing sensitive raw data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces biometric templates as an intermediary between raw biometric data and identification processes. These templates serve as a mediated representation that enables identification while preventing reconstruction of raw biometric data, thus protecting privacy security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Speed

If biometric data is transmitted over wireless networks for remote identification, then emergency response speed is improved, but data security and privacy protection worsen

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveemergency response speedVSAvoiddata security risk

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and transmits only essential biometric template data over wireless networks rather than complete raw biometric datasets. This extraction approach enables rapid emergency identification while minimizing security risks associated with wireless transmission.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Biometric templates are pre-stored and prepared in advance, allowing for rapid identification during emergencies without requiring transmission of large raw biometric datasets. This preliminary preparation accelerates emergency response while maintaining security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If complete biometric datasets are stored for verification, then verification reliability is improved, but storage security and access control worsen

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveverification reliabilityVSAvoidstorage security complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts essential verification characteristics into compact biometric templates, reducing the amount of data that needs to be stored and managed. This extraction maintains verification reliability while simplifying storage security requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of storing original raw biometric data, the system creates and stores simplified copies in the form of biometric templates. These template copies retain sufficient information for reliable verification while being inherently more secure and easier to manage than complete datasets.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS20210209249A1Telehealth solutions for early personalization of healthcare data support via methods, communications, data networks, biometrics at point of care, services and apparatuses therefor.

Publication Date: 2021.07.08 HOFFER STEVEN

AI summary

These scalable solutions concern transforming each communication network into a network to also automate personalized rapid healthcare support. They integrate biometric identification capabilities into a network entity of, or a resource communicably connectible with, a serving network by using computers to mediate biometric identification and location data. Network operators will provide always on enhanced emergency connectivity for mobility and roaming for user equipment to enable leveraging biometric identification for rapid healthcare support and to produce a unified result set, without risk of undue disclosure of raw biometric data or of selected portions of health profile information. A specially adapted serving network that manages or mediates rapid health care support is supported by a computer system having access to databases with biometric identity or health profile information to be shared as needed with authorized requesters, under confidentiality rules, privacy rules, gating policies, or other pre-defined constraints.