Ephemeral Linking Codes for Secure Cross-Platform Identity Transfer

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing network-based value exchange systems rely on persistent credentials, which expose users to fraud, regulatory risks, and cyber-attacks, and introduce additional security overhead without addressing the root problem of data security.

Innovation Solution

A centralized key exchange platform uses Universally Unique Ephemeral Keys (UUEK) to facilitate credential-less exchanges between member platforms, establishing secure links through cross-platform communications without relying on persistent credentials, and enabling secure, flexible, and efficient cross-platform communications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If persistent credentials are used for network-based value exchanges, then authentication and authorization can be established, but users are exposed to fraud, regulatory risks, and cyber-attacks

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication reliabilityVSAvoidfraud and cyber-attack exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the harmful element (persistent credentials) from the authentication process while retaining the essential function of establishing trust. By removing credentials entirely and replacing them with cryptographic proofs of value and authorized actions, the system eliminates the attack surface while maintaining authentication reliability through mathematical cryptography rather than secret sharing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a cryptographic intermediary layer that mediates between parties without requiring direct credential sharing. Zero-knowledge proofs and signed transactions act as intermediaries that verify authenticity and authorization without exposing sensitive information, thereby eliminating fraud vectors while maintaining reliable authentication.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If strict communication protocols and authentication schemes are implemented to address credential insecurity, then data security is improved, but network transactions become more complex and slower

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata securityVSAvoidprotocol complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables self-service security where the cryptographic system automatically performs authentication and authorization without requiring complex protocol negotiations. The digital signatures and zero-knowledge proofs self-verify their authenticity through mathematical properties, eliminating the need for complex challenge-response protocols and reducing system complexity while maintaining strong security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces mechanical authentication mechanisms (credential verification, password checking, multi-factor authentication flows) with cryptographic mathematical proofs. This substitution simplifies the system by replacing complex procedural security with elegant mathematical verification that is both secure and computationally efficient.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Stability of the object's composition

If persistent credentials are used for transactions, then user identity can be maintained across exchanges, but users face risk of financial loss, identity theft, and credit score damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveidentity consistencyVSAvoididentity theft risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs disposable cryptographic identifiers that are generated for each transaction or session and then discarded. These ephemeral identifiers maintain identity consistency through cryptographic linkage (the same private key signs multiple transactions) while preventing identity theft because each identifier is useless after its intended purpose is fulfilled, unlike persistent credentials that remain vulnerable indefinitely.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Data Source

PatentUS20260039651A1Network-level, key-based platform linking

Publication Date: 2026.02.05 1080 NETWORK INC

AI summary

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a network linking technique that improves the functionality of a computer in various aspects. The techniques comprise receiving, originating from a first member platform within a member computing ecosystem, a linking code request comprising a first member-specific identifier; providing, to an internal service, the linking code request to generate an ephemeral transport object storing a linking code and the first member-specific identifier; providing the linking code to the first member platform; receiving, originating from a second member platform within the member computing ecosystem, a linking request comprising the linking code and a second member-specific identifier; providing the linking request to the internal service to receive the first member-specific identifier from the ephemeral transport object of the internal service; and storing the first member-specific identifier within a local construct of the cross-platform data object.