Cellular Network Access Control Schema for Micro Payments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital technologies face challenges such as invasive online advertising, lack of effective ad blocking, privacy concerns, inability to execute single digital transactions, limited micro commerce capabilities, vulnerabilities in crypto currencies, and inefficient billing systems in cellular networks, leading to user mistrust and financial losses.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves reprogramming cellular network elements to support novel communications protocols and architectures, enabling micro payments, secure transactions, and transparent billing by encapsulating tariff information in dialed digits, using HOOK FLASH signaling, and integrating AAA protocols for secure authentication and accounting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional cellular network elements are used, then existing network infrastructure is maintained, but micro payment capabilities and transparent billing are not enabled
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring network elements with new protocols and architectures before actual micro transactions occur. The cellular network elements are reprogrammed in advance to support novel communications protocols that enable micro payments and transparent billing, allowing the network to handle these advanced transactions without requiring real-time complex reconfiguration during transaction processing.
2Reliability
If access controlling schemas are implemented, then secure authentication and accounting are improved, but transaction complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an intermediary approach by introducing a dedicated access controlling schema that acts as a mediator between the user and the cellular network. This schema handles secure authentication and accounting functions, allowing the network to verify user credentials and manage transactions without requiring complex authentication logic to be embedded in every transaction processing step, thus simplifying the overall transaction flow while maintaining security.
3Loss of information
If tariff information is encapsulated in dialed digits, then billing transparency is improved, but signal processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the dialed digits into distinct segments that carry different types of information. Tariff information is encapsulated within specific digit sequences, allowing the network to extract and process billing data separately from the actual transaction signal. This segmentation enables transparent billing by preserving tariff details in the signaling path without requiring complex signal processing to decode and interpret the information.
Data Source
AI summary
In some embodiments, the present disclosure is directed to an exemplary process including: displaying, by a processor of a computing device, an access controller interface element and an access code on a screen of the computing device; where the access controller interface element is: communicatively coupled to a cellular network hosted access controlling schema and operationally linked to an access-restricted digital resource; transmitting, by the processor of the computing device, in response to the at least one activity, an access request having data that includes: the access code and an identity linked to the computing device; where at least one part of the data is configured to be accepted by the cellular network hosted access controlling schema; accessing, by the processor of the computing device, the access-restricted digital resource after the at least one part of the data has been accepted by the cellular network hosted access controlling schema.