Distributed Identity Credential Reuse Across Enterprise Platforms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing identity verification systems face challenges in compatibility across different standards, leading to difficulties for businesses in interpreting and interacting with digital identities, and consumers must repeatedly verify their identity across platforms, increasing the risk of personal information breaches.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes a network interface circuit, processor, and memory to manage digital identities through a distributed identification (DID) system, allowing for the registration of identification issuers and holders, collection of verified identification evidence, and issuance of verified identification credentials with a Digital Identity Attribute Level (DIAL) score, enabling secure and reusable digital identities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple different identity verification standards are used across platforms, then each platform can maintain its own security and verification requirements, but businesses face difficulty in interpreting and interacting with digital identities and consumers must repeatedly verify their identity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal digital identity verification system where a single verified identity credential can be used across multiple platforms and enterprises. The system creates a standardized digital identity representation that works universally, allowing consumers to verify their identity once and reuse the verification across different platforms without needing to comply with multiple different verification standards.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary digital identity verification service that mediates between consumers and multiple enterprises. This intermediary service standardizes the verification process and creates a common digital identity language that different platforms can understand and accept, eliminating the need for consumers to repeatedly verify their identity with each platform.
2Reliability
If consumers repeatedly verify their identity across different platforms, then each verification can be tailored to specific platform requirements, but the risk of personal information breaches increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs identity verification in advance and stores the verified digital identity credential securely. Once the consumer's identity is verified by the intermediary service, the verified credential is stored and can be reused across multiple platforms without repeatedly exposing personal information. This preliminary verification action eliminates the need for consumers to continuously submit personal information to different platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a digital copy or representation of the verified identity credential that can be shared across platforms without exposing the original personal information. The system generates a standardized digital identity token that contains verified identity attributes but protects underlying personal data, allowing platforms to verify identities without direct access to sensitive personal information.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a centralized identity verification system is implemented to improve compatibility, then consumers can reuse their identity verification across platforms, but the system complexity and regulatory compliance difficulty increase for businesses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the identity verification system into distinct functional components: an intermediary verification service, consumer identity wallets, and enterprise verification clients. Each component has a specific function and can operate independently, reducing overall system complexity. The segmentation allows different parts of the system to be developed and maintained separately while still working together through standardized protocols.
4Reliability
If strict identity verification is performed at each platform, then security is maintained, but the cost and time of Know Your Customer (KYC) processes increases for businesses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes a continuous identity verification system where the verified digital identity credential remains valid across multiple platforms and over time. Once a consumer's identity is verified, the verification status is maintained and can be continuously reused without repeating the entire KYC process. This continuous validation approach eliminates repeated verification time while maintaining security through the persistent verified credential.
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AI summary
An apparatus has a network interface circuit to provide connectivity to a network. A processor is connected to the network interface circuit. A memory is connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to receive a registration request from an identification issuer machine. A distributed identification (DID) is assigned to an identification issuer machine. The DID is registered at an identification registry machine. An identification request is received from an identification holder machine. Verified identification evidence is collected from identification validation machines. A verified identification credential with an associated Digital Identity Attribute Level (DIAL) is issued to a holder wallet associated with a user of the identification holder machine. The verified identification credential and DIAL in the holder wallet is accessible only with permission from the user of the identification holder machine, which is selectively granted to different machines over time to establish a reusable digital identity.