Certified Identifier Pairing for Telecommunication Link Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current telecommunications networks lack secure and controlled mechanisms for establishing and managing social links between users, leading to exponential social graphs that are difficult to navigate, with unreliable information circulation and limited user control over content sharing.

Innovation Solution

A method for creating certified telecommunications links between users using pairs of certified identifiers, allowing direct communication sessions while maintaining control over access and content sharing, with optional temporal limitations and transferability to third parties.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If social networking sites allow users to record and maintain numerous links between users, then users can interact with a broader network including friends and friends of friends, but the social graph becomes exponential in size making navigation difficult and control lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenetwork connectivityVSAvoidsocial graph size
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the social network into hierarchical levels: direct contacts (first level), friends of friends (second level), and so on. Each user has a limited number of direct contacts (e.g., 100), which prevents exponential growth while still allowing indirect connections through multiple levels. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by maintaining network versatility through hierarchical structure while controlling the complexity of the direct social graph.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If users can share content freely on social networking sites, then content circulation is enhanced, but users have no control over how their content is used and cannot withdraw it

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent circulationVSAvoidcontent control
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where content sharing is governed by explicit user permissions and consent. The system provides feedback loops allowing content owners to monitor, control, and withdraw their content at any time. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining content circulation through controlled sharing while ensuring reliability through continuous user control and feedback mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Object-affected harmful factors

If anonymous user profiles are used on social networking sites, then user privacy is protected, but information reliability decreases and distrust prevails

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser privacy protectionVSAvoidinformation reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by differentiating between public and private information. User profiles contain both anonymous elements (protecting privacy) and verified elements (ensuring reliability). Direct contacts can access verified identity information while strangers see only anonymous profiles. This resolves the contradiction by providing privacy protection at the global level while ensuring information reliability at the local interaction level.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

4Productivity

If advertising-based financing is used, then economic sustainability is achieved, but user trust decreases due to lack of control over content usage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeconomic sustainabilityVSAvoiduser trust
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer of explicit user permissions and consent mechanisms between content owners and content users. This intermediary system allows for controlled content circulation that maintains user trust while enabling sustainable economic models. The intermediary framework ensures that content sharing is governed by user-defined rules rather than purely advertising-driven exploitation, resolving the contradiction between economic sustainability and user trust.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP2360889B1Creation and use of a telecommunication link between two users of a telecommunication network
Publication Date: 2019.04.03 ORANGE SA
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AI summary

The method involves generating a pair of certified identifiers of first user (U1) and second user (U2) allowing a communications session to be set up between communications devices (D1-U1,D2-U1,Dk-U1) of a first set and communications devices (D1-U2,D2-U2,Dk-U2) of a second set. Independent claims are also included for: (1) a program comprising program code instructions for executing the telecommunications link creation method when executed by processor; (2) a method of using a telecommunications link; (3) a program comprising program code instructions for executing the method for using a telecommunications link when executed by processor; (4) a telecommunication network device; and (5) a device for managing a relational service between users including a telecommunications network device.