Cellular Network Device Authentication via Proximity Tokens

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Solution Overview

Problem

Enterprise systems face challenges in authorizing events while ensuring authenticity and security, optimizing resource utilization, and maintaining efficient operations, particularly in transactions involving sensitive data across various networks.

Innovation Solution

A computing platform utilizes a high generation cellular network to authenticate devices by identifying proximate trusted devices, prompting them for authentication, and receiving authentication tokens to authorize events, ensuring secure and efficient transactions through accurate location data and high-speed communication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional authentication methods are used to ensure device authenticity, then security is improved, but authorization speed and operational efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice authenticityVSAvoidauthorization speed

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes trusted device relationships and stores authentication credentials in advance. When authorization is needed, the pre-configured trusted device can immediately authenticate the requesting device without time-consuming verification processes, thus maintaining security while enabling fast authorization

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

A computing platform acts as an intermediary that manages authentication tokens and trusted device relationships. This intermediary handles the complex authentication logic centrally, allowing individual devices to authorize events quickly by simply presenting tokens validated by the intermediary platform

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If multiple authentication factors are required to ensure event authorization, then security is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveevent authorizationVSAvoidauthentication system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Trusted devices automatically perform authentication functions for associated devices without requiring user intervention or complex manual verification. The system configures itself by establishing trusted relationships between devices, eliminating the need for complex administrative authentication procedures

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses partial authentication action by relying on pre-established trusted device relationships rather than requiring complete multi-factor authentication for every event. This partial approach (using only the trusted device relationship) is sufficient for authorized devices while maintaining security

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11792648B2Utilizing a high generation cellular network to authorize an event

Publication Date: 2023.10.17 BANK OF AMERICA CORP

AI summary

Aspects of the disclosure relate to authorizing an event by utilizing a high generation cellular network to authenticate a device associated with the event. A computing platform may receive, from a first device, a request to authorize an event. Subsequently, the computing platform may identify, based on an analysis of location data, that a second device is proximate to the first device. The computing platform may then prompt the second device to authenticate the first device. Then, the computing platform may receive, from the second device, an authentication token indicating whether the first device is authenticated. Based on the authentication token, the computing platform may respond to the request to authorize the event.