Delivery Management System with Segmented Information Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing delivery management systems are vulnerable to cyber-attacks and unauthorized information acquisition, leading to potential leaks of personal information when linking customer original information with camouflage information.
Innovation Solution
A delivery management system that accepts provisional information different from true information, stores and specifies identification information across multiple, geographically distinct units, ensuring that true information is protected by requiring multiple database references to reveal the delivery address.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single subsystem stores and processes both customer original information and camouflage information, then the delivery management process is simplified, but the system becomes vulnerable to cyber-attacks and information leakage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the information storage system into multiple independent subsystems: a first subsystem storing customer original information, a second subsystem storing camouflage information, and a third subsystem managing correspondence relationships. This segmentation ensures that compromise of one subsystem does not expose all information, directly resolving the vulnerability to cyber-attacks while maintaining delivery management functionality.
2Reliability
If multiple storage units are distributed at different locations, then robustness against information leakage is improved, but the complexity of managing multiple databases increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third subsystem that acts as an intermediary, storing and managing the correspondence relationships between customer original information and camouflage information. This intermediary subsystem simplifies the management complexity by centralizing the relationship data, while the actual information remains distributed across multiple secure locations, thus maintaining both security and manageability.
3Productivity
If all identification information is stored in one place, then the delivery specification process is faster, but unauthorized access to one database can reveal all necessary information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments identification information across three separate subsystems: first identification information in the first subsystem, second identification information in the second subsystem, and correspondence relationships in the third subsystem. This segmentation prevents unauthorized access to complete information while maintaining efficient delivery specification through the coordinated use of these distributed components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested structure where the third subsystem contains correspondence information that links to identification information in the first and second subsystems. This nested arrangement allows the system to maintain security through distribution while enabling efficient information retrieval by nesting the relationship management within the broader delivery management framework.
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AI summary
A delivery management system includes: a first accepting unit which accepts provisional information corresponding to true information regarding a delivery destination, and being different information from the true information; a first specifying unit which specifies a first identification information based on the provisional information accepted by the first accepting unit, with referring the first storage unit storing the first identification information and the provisional information while associating them; a second specifying unit which specifies a second identification information based on the first identification information specified by the first specifying unit, with referring the second storage unit storing the second identification information and the first identification information while associating them; and a third specifying unit which specifies the true information based on the second identification information specified by the second specifying unit, with referring a third storage unit storing the second identification information and the true information while associating them, wherein the first storage unit, the second storage unit and the third storage unit are located at different places from one another.