Computing Device Proximity Authentication for Anonymous Transactions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies fail to facilitate efficient, secure, and anonymous transactions between unfamiliar individuals for goods and services with short marketable values, often requiring visual identification and relying on unreliable location-based services.
Innovation Solution
A computer system with specifically programmed computing devices that enable direct electronic proximity-based communication, using unique visual indicators and authentication protocols to facilitate transactions between users, ensuring anonymity and security while minimizing reliance on GPS and Wi-Fi.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If visual identification and location-based services are used for transactions between unfamiliar individuals, then transaction security can be improved, but transaction efficiency deteriorates and fraud risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional visual identification mechanisms with electronic proximity-based communication using computing devices. Instead of relying on visual recognition and physical presence verification, the system uses electronic signals, authentication protocols, and proximity detection to enable secure transactions between unfamiliar individuals, thereby improving both security and efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication system that facilitates transactions between strangers. This intermediary mechanism includes unique user authentication identifiers, proximity-based communication protocols, and real-time adjustable visual indicators that mediate the interaction between unfamiliar users, enabling secure and efficient transactions without direct visual identification
2Reliability
If visual indicators and authentication protocols are implemented for anonymous meetings, then transaction security is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal computing device platform that performs multiple functions: displaying graphical user interfaces, managing authentication identifiers, detecting proximity, providing real-time adjustable visual indicators, and facilitating electronic communication. By consolidating these functions into a single multi-functional system, the patent reduces overall device complexity while maintaining high security standards
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses real-time adjustable visual indicators that can change their characteristics (color, intensity, pattern) based on authentication status and proximity detection. This dynamic parameter adjustment allows the system to maintain security through multiple verification layers while presenting a simplified user interface, thereby managing complexity through intelligent parameter modulation rather than adding more components
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AI summary
In some embodiments, the present invention provides for a computer system which includes at least the following components: a plurality of computing devices associated with a plurality of users associated with a plurality of users; where each computing device of the plurality of computing devices is configured to: electronically receive software which, when being executed, cause such computing device to display a plurality of instances of a specifically programmed graphical user interface (GUI); where each instance of the GUI is configured to display a real-time updatable meeting information representative of a direct electronic proximity-based communication between at least two computing devices associated with at least two users who desire to meet at a particular location to engage in a transaction of at least one good, at least one service, or both, whose marketable value lasts for a period of 30 seconds to 60 minutes.