Data Sharding for Secure Cellular Transmission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large enterprise organizations face challenges in protecting and managing real-time data transmissions across complex networks with numerous devices and users, requiring efficient and timely data protection while optimizing network resources and bandwidth utilization, especially in high-generation cellular networks.

Innovation Solution

A computing platform intercepts data transmissions, sharding them into smaller segments and routing each segment through distinct communication channels within a high-generation cellular network, ensuring secure and efficient data reconfiguration, including encryption and key management, to maintain data integrity and confidentiality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If data is transmitted through a complex enterprise network with numerous devices and users, then data transmission coverage and connectivity are improved, but data security and protection against unauthorized access deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata transmission coverageVSAvoiddata security
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments data into multiple shards and transmits them through different network paths and channels. This segmentation allows the system to maintain broad network coverage while enhancing security, as compromising one shard or path does not expose the entire dataset. The sharded data can be reassembled only at the destination with proper authorization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If real-time data protection and analysis are implemented, then data security and integrity are improved, but network resource consumption and processing time worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata integrityVSAvoidnetwork resource efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary actions by sharding data before transmission and establishing secure channels in advance. Encryption and sharding are applied proactively rather than reactively, allowing real-time protection without adding significant processing overhead during critical data transmission moments. The system prepares security measures beforehand to enable efficient real-time operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If data is sharded into multiple segments and transmitted through different channels, then data security and confidentiality are improved, but system complexity and processing overhead worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata confidentialityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal sharding and reassembly mechanism that handles multiple data types and transmission scenarios through a single standardized process. The same sharding logic, encryption methods, and reassembly procedures apply across different data formats and network conditions, reducing the need for multiple specialized systems and thereby managing complexity despite the enhanced security measures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11979460B2Data sharding for transmission over a high generation cellular network
Publication Date: 2024.05.07 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

Aspects of the disclosure relate to data sharding for transmission over a high generation cellular network. A computing platform may detect, via a communication network, transmission of data from a first computing device to a second computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may intercept, prior to receipt of the transmission by the second computing device, the data. Then, the computing platform may shard the data into a first shard and a second shard. Then, the computing platform may identify, within the communication network, a first communication channel and a second communication channel. Then, the computing platform may send, to the second computing device, the first shard via the first communication channel, and the second shard via the second communication channel. Subsequently, the computing platform may merge, the first shard and the second shard, to reconfigure the data.