User Data Exchange via Dummy IDs and Request Tickets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data exchange systems face challenges in securely exchanging personal information between data providers and consumers without revealing user identities, and there is a need for a method to prevent unauthorized access and aggregation of user data.
Innovation Solution
A user data exchange system involving a platformer that intermediates the exchange of user data between data consumers and providers using dummy identifiers, ensuring that neither party knows the actual user IDs, and utilizing an ID provider for authentication, with optional encryption for enhanced security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If actual user IDs are exchanged between data provider and consumer, then data exchange can be performed, but user identity security is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a platformer as an intermediary that issues dummy IDs to both data consumers and data providers. These dummy IDs serve as mediators that enable data exchange without exposing actual user IDs. The platformer generates and manages the dummy IDs, ensuring that neither the data consumer nor the data provider can trace the data back to the actual user identity, thus resolving the contradiction between maintaining security and enabling data exchange.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates dummy IDs that are copies or representations of actual user IDs but without containing the sensitive identifying information. These dummy IDs function as safe substitutes that preserve the ability to exchange and track data while eliminating the security risk associated with sharing real user identifiers. The dummy IDs are generated by the platformer and distributed to participating parties as secure alternatives to actual user IDs.
2Reliability
If dummy identifiers are used to protect user identities, then security is improved, but system complexity increases due to identifier mapping and management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates the dummy ID generation and management functionality into a single centralized platformer. This merging of functions simplifies the overall system architecture by eliminating the need for each participant to independently manage their own dummy ID systems and mapping relationships. The platformer handles all identifier mapping, generation, and coordination, reducing the complexity burden from multiple distributed systems to a single managed service.
3Reliability
If ticket-based status management is implemented, then charge management and error handling are improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements ticket-based status management where tickets are generated in advance with predefined status information before data exchange operations occur. This preliminary action allows the system to pre-establish the framework for charge management and error handling, enabling faster processing during actual data exchange operations since the management infrastructure is already in place rather than being created during the critical data transfer phase.
Data Source
AI summary
The information processing apparatus transmits a first identifier in response to a request for issuance of a user identifier sent from a DC, transmits a second identifier in response to a request for issuance of the user identifier sent from a DP, receives, from the DC, a ticket issuance request comprising information identifying user data requested by the DC, the first identifier, and DP as the request destination, issues a data request ticket corresponding to the ticket issuance request, transmits a ticket identifier of the issued data request ticket to the DC, and when ticket identifier is received from the DP, transmits the data request ticket corresponding to the ticket identifier to the DP. The ticket issuing request includes a first identifier, and the data request ticket transmitted to the DP includes a second identifier corresponding to the first identifier.