Data File Interrogation Module for Secure Channel Submission

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Solution Overview

Problem

In large enterprise businesses, data files often contain unintended or erroneous data items and are transmitted to unauthorized recipients, posing security risks and latency concerns due to limited visibility within secure data channels.

Innovation Solution

A system that registers data files using a repository to capture metadata upon creation, allowing verification of actual contents against registered information before transmission, ensuring data integrity and authorization through a data file interrogation and verification module.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If data files are transmitted through secure data channels to external entities, then data communication efficiency is improved, but data security and authorization control deteriorate due to limited visibility and inability to verify content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata communication efficiencyVSAvoiddata security and authorization control

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration of data files with the Data File Registration Repository (DFRR) before transmission, capturing metadata and registered information about the file contents. This advance preparation enables subsequent verification without impeding the actual transmission process, thus maintaining efficiency while improving security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary verification system consisting of the DFRR and Data File Interrogation and Verification Module (DFIVM) that mediates between the data source and external recipients. This intermediary layer verifies file contents and authorization without directly blocking the communication channel, resolving the contradiction between efficient transmission and security control.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If data files are interrogated after entering the data channel, then data security verification is improved, but communication latency and risk increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata security verificationVSAvoidcommunication latency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs the interrogatio n and verification process before data files enter the secure data channel. The DFIVM module intercepts files prior to channel submission, verifies their contents against registered information, and confirms recipient authorization in advance. This eliminates the need for post-channel interrogation, thereby avoiding communication latency and risks associated with intercepting transmitted data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If comprehensive verification checks are performed on data files prior to channel entry, then data security and content validity are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata security and content validityVSAvoidverification system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the data file metadata and registered information in the DFRR without requiring duplication of the entire verification process for each transmission. The verification module compares file contents against this stored copy, simplifying the verification mechanism while maintaining comprehensive security checks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

4Quantity of substance

If data files contain unintended or erroneous data items, then data communication volume is maintained, but data accuracy and recipient authorization deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata communication volumeVSAvoiddata accuracy and recipient authorization

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where the DFIVM module continuously monitors and verifies data file contents against registered information before transmission. When discrepancies or unauthorized content are detected, the system provides feedback to prevent transmission, ensuring that only accurate and properly authorized data reaches external recipients while maintaining appropriate communication volume.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9805037B2Payload interrogation prior to external data channel submission

Publication Date: 2017.10.31 BANK OF AMERICA CORP

AI summary

The present invention relates to verification of the contents of a data file prior to external recipient communication. Specifically, the invention provides for a data file registration repository that registers information associated with data files. In specific embodiments, data registration occurs automatically be capturing the file header metadata. Prior to communicating the file to an external recipient, the payload of the data file is interrogated to determine actual content and the actual content is compared to the registered information to insure that the data being communicated is the same as what the data file is purported to contain (i.e., matches the registered information). Other verifications, such as date type authorization, recipient authorization and the like may also occur in conjunction with the content verification. If the verification(s) is successful, the data is authorized to be placed in the data channel for communication to the external recipient.