Communication ID Verification Database for Fraud Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication systems lack a foolproof and dynamic means to verify the identity of communication identifiers, such as telephone numbers and email addresses, leading to potential fraud from nefarious entities masquerading as trusted parties, especially in network-based communications like telephone calls and emails.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that verifies communication identifiers by establishing a verified communication ID database, which stores records associating communication IDs with their respective parties, providing visual or audible outputs to users when a selected ID is confirmed to be associated with the intended party, and allowing users to access this database for verified communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If no identity verification system is implemented, then communication systems remain simple and easy to operate, but security and reliability are compromised due to inability to verify communication party identities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication identifier database as an intermediary component that stores verified associations between communication identifiers and communication parties. This database acts as a mediator between communication parties, providing automated identity verification without requiring complex peer-to-peer verification protocols. The database receives verification requests, checks against stored records, and returns verification results, thereby resolving the contradiction by adding a simple centralized verification layer rather than complex distributed verification mechanisms.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If real-time verification of communication IDs is implemented, then fraud prevention is improved, but communication speed and responsiveness are reduced due to additional verification steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-verifying and storing communication identifier associations in the database before actual communications occur. When a communication party's identifier is verified and associated with their identity, this information is stored in advance in the communication identifier database. During subsequent communications, the system performs rapid lookups of pre-verified data rather than conducting full verification procedures, thereby maintaining high communication speed while preventing fraud through advance verification.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive verification data is stored for all communication parties, then verification accuracy is improved, but data storage requirements and system resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by storing verification data selectively rather than universally. The communication identifier database stores verification records specifically for communication parties that have undergone verification and established associations between their identifiers and identities. Not all communication parties require full verification data stored - only those who need verified status. This selective storage approach maintains high verification accuracy for verified parties while minimizing overall data storage requirements by not maintaining verification records for all possible communication entities.
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AI summary
Verification of the identities of parties participating in network-based communication, such as telephone communication, including SMS/text communication, email communication and the like is provided. Communication identifiers (IDs) (e.g., telephone numbers, email addresses or the like) are verified as being associated with one or more communication parties and, in response, a verified communication (ID) database is established. The verified communication ID database is relied upon when a user/communication is selecting a communication ID as an address for an impending communication or receiving a communication for determining whether the communication ID is verifiably associated with a known communication party. If the communication ID is determined to be verifiably associated with a known communication party, a visual or audible output may be provided on the user's device or within the communication that indicates that the communication ID is verifiably associated with the known communication party.