Mobile Browser User Information Sharing via Encrypted File Transfer

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile terminal browsers do not effectively share user information across different browsers, leading to inconvenience when users need to log in to the same websites using different browsers, as each browser manages its own account and password data independently.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for sharing user information between mobile terminal browsers, which involves installing a menu for importing and exporting saved user information, encoding and encrypting the data, and decrypting it for secure transfer between browsers, allowing seamless login across multiple browsers without re-entering credentials.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If each browser manages user information independently, then browser security and data integrity are improved, but user convenience and inter-browser compatibility deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrowser securityVSAvoiduser convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (file export/import system with encryption) that mediates between the isolated browser storage systems. This allows secure transfer of user information between browsers while maintaining the security boundaries of each browser, thus resolving the contradiction between security and convenience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts user information from the closed browser storage system and places it in an external encrypted file format. This extraction enables the information to be shared between browsers while the encryption maintains security, allowing independent browser management to coexist with inter-browser compatibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple browsers are installed on a mobile terminal, then user choice and functionality are improved, but time consumption for login operations increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser choiceVSAvoidlogin time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-exporting user information to encrypted files that can be quickly imported by other browsers. This preparation work is done once and reused across multiple browsers, eliminating the need to re-enter credentials each time a different browser is used.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates copies of user information in an encrypted file format that can be shared across multiple browsers. Instead of requiring users to manually re-enter credentials in each browser, the system copies the authenticated information securely between browsers through file import/export operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Adaptability or versatility

If user information is exported to external files, then inter-browser sharing capability is improved, but security risks from data exposure increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinter-browser compatibilityVSAvoidsecurity risks
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by transforming the security parameter of stored data through encryption. The user information is converted from plain text to encrypted format using cryptographic algorithms, changing the security state from vulnerable to protected while maintaining the ability to share the data structure between browsers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent converts the potential harm of external file storage (security vulnerability) into a benefit by implementing encryption. The very act of exporting to external files, which could expose data, is transformed into a secure sharing mechanism where encryption protects the data while still enabling inter-browser compatibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Data Source

PatentEP2833270B1Mobile terminal browser based user information sharing method and device
Publication Date: 2019.11.20 HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMM CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for sharing user information in browsers of a mobile terminal is disclosed in the present invention and comprises steps of: receiving a second operating command for importing the user information to a second browser; executing a first operating command for exporting the user information from the first browser in accordance with the second operating command for importing the user information to the second browser, and the first operating command is a command for exporting the user information from the first browser.