Disposable Email Address for Secure Resource Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Systems accessing email accounts for resources often misuse personal information, leading to unauthorized disclosure and unwanted promotional content, as they are provided with direct access to email addresses and other identifying details without user consent.
Innovation Solution
A disposable email address (DEA) is generated and used to provide access to resources, allowing systems to interact with email accounts without revealing the original email address, with the DEA being deactivated once its purpose is fulfilled or upon user request.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a system is provided with direct access to a user's email address and personal information, then the system can access resources and provide services, but the user's personal information may be misused or disclosed without permission
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a disposable email address as an intermediary between the user's real email address and the external system. The DEA receives emails from the system, allowing resource access while preventing direct exposure of the user's personal email address. This intermediary layer enables the system to communicate with the user without obtaining harmful access to their primary personal information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a disposable email address that is temporary and single-purpose. The DEA is created specifically for one-time verification or resource access, then discarded after use. This disposable approach allows the system to obtain necessary access credentials without permanently storing or misusing the user's real personal information, solving the contradiction between providing access and protecting privacy.
2Productivity
If a system stores and processes user's real email address, then it can deliver targeted content and communications, but the user receives unwanted promotional content and their privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The disposable email address serves as a mediator that enables targeted content delivery to the user without requiring the system to store or process the user's real personal email address. The system can send promotional or targeted content to the DEA, which then forwards relevant communications to the user's real inbox, filtering out unwanted content while maintaining delivery accuracy for legitimate communications.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the email address function from the user's personal identity. By using a DEA that is decoupled from the user's real personal information, the system can perform email-based operations (content delivery, verification, communication) without extracting or storing the user's actual personal email address, thereby preventing privacy loss while maintaining content delivery capability.
Data Source
AI summary
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing a system with access to resources associated with a user account using a disposable email address (DEA) are provided. A request to provide a system with access to a first set of resources may be received. The first set of resources may be associated with a first email account associated with a first email address. A first DEA associated with the first email account may be generated. The first DEA may be transmitted to the system. A first set of modified emails may be generated based upon a first set of emails of the first email account. A first modified email of the first set of modified emails may comprise an indication of the first DEA. Access to the first set of modified emails may be provided to the system. The first DEA may be deactivated.