Digital Credential Verification via Correlation Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing use of digital credentials for verifying technical skills and proficiencies poses challenges in publishing, verifying, and tracking these credentials, as traditional physical certificates are replaced by digital badges, leading to issues with authenticity and compatibility with various fields and occupations.
Innovation Solution
A digital credential platform server analyzes multiple data sources associated with a digital credential receiver, including earned badges, evaluation records, and career phase, to calculate correlation scores with various field data objects, mapping the receiver to suitable occupations by comparing skills, personality traits, and career stages, and using expiration dates as multipliers in correlation calculations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital credentials are issued to verify technical skills and proficiencies, then the options for obtaining and validating skills increase, but the challenges in publishing, verifying, and tracking the authenticity of these credentials increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a digital credential verification system that acts as an intermediary between credential issuers and validators. This system uses standardized data structures and verification protocols to mediate the authentication process, ensuring that digital credentials can be reliably verified across different platforms and organizations without compromising their authenticity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms digital credentials from simple static representations into dynamic data structures with verifiable parameters such as issuance dates, expiration dates, unique identifiers, and cryptographic signatures. These parameter changes enable automated verification while maintaining credential authenticity across diverse systems
2Ease of operation
If digital credentials replace physical certificates, then the convenience and tracking capability improve, but the issues with authenticity and compatibility with various fields and occupations worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal digital credential system that can serve multiple fields and occupations through standardized data structures. The system design allows the same verification mechanism to work across different industries, skill levels, and credential types, ensuring broad compatibility while maintaining ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments digital credentials into standardized data components such as credential holder information, issuer information, skill descriptors, and verification metadata. This segmentation allows flexible adaptation to different fields and occupations while maintaining a consistent verification framework that preserves operational convenience
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques described herein relate to receiving multiple sources of verified data associated with a digital credential receiver, and mapping the digital credential receiver to one or more data field data objects based on analyses of the verified data. In some embodiments, a digital credential platform server may analyze the various data sources associated with the digital credential receiver, in order to determine and calculate correlation scores between the digital credential receiver and various field data objects. A combination of analyses and/or comparisons may be used between the credential receiver data and the corresponding retrieved from field data objects, such as the digital credential objects earned by the credential receiver, the credential receiver’s verified evaluation records, and/or the career phase of the digital credential receiver.