Channel Grid Framework for Cross-Device Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies in managing and understanding vast amounts of digital content across different devices and platforms, leading to decreased productivity due to the need for expertise in various formats and differing access methods.
Innovation Solution
A system and method utilizing a universal grid of channels to enable context-relevant interactions with multiple information forms, allowing users to authenticate, establish a channel grid framework, and transfer channels across devices, facilitating seamless interaction and management of content like text, graphics, video, and 3D visualizations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users access content across multiple devices and platforms, then information utility and content availability grow, but device complexity and operational difficulty increase due to differing access methods and metaphors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal authentication framework that enables single sign-on across multiple devices and platforms. The system creates a unified user identity that can access content on desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and televisions through consistent authentication credentials, eliminating the need for separate access methods for each device type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication server that mediates between users and multiple content sources across different platforms. This server handles credential verification, token generation, and session management, simplifying the user experience while maintaining security across diverse devices and content protection systems.
2Reliability
If multiple authentication methods are implemented across different platforms, then security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to the need for multiple credentials and access methods
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple authentication methods into a unified framework. It combines username/password credentials with device-based authentication, social login options, and single sign-on capabilities into a single coherent system. Users authenticate once and gain access across all platforms, while the system maintains multiple security layers including credential verification, device registration, and session token validation.
3Reliability
If content is protected across multiple platforms, then copyright protection is improved, but device complexity increases due to different content protection schemes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal content protection framework that works across multiple platforms and devices. The system uses standardized token-based authentication and encrypted content delivery that can be deployed on desktops, mobile devices, and televisions without requiring platform-specific protection schemes. Content is protected through unified licensing and authentication mechanisms that maintain copyright security while simplifying system architecture.
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AI summary
Facilitating display of, and interaction with, secure user-centric information via a user platform operated by a user. A user identity is transmitted to an external computing device hosting an identity management server to authenticate the user. After authenticating, a desktop channel grid framework is displayed on the user platform. The channel grid framework includes multiple channels having respective contents represented as multiple user-selectable items, through which respective portions of the secure user-centric information are presented. At least some of the secure user-centric information in at least one channel is based on the user identity, and in displaying the at least one channel as a selectable item, the at least one channel is authenticated by the identity management server. In one example, the user platform also is authenticated, and multiple user-selectable items included in the channel grid framework is based on information access rights and/or security protocols respectively associated with the corresponding plurality of authorized channels, the user, and the user platform.