Federated Identity Manager for Metaverse Carrier Billing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in authenticating users across different metaverse providers and charging users for digital assets purchased in virtual environments, due to issues with trusted identities and carrier billing.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a metaverse server, a federated identity manager server, and a mobile network operator (MNO) is introduced, where the federated identity manager creates a trusted identity for a user based on their metaverse identity and subscriber information, and facilitates carrier billing for digital content purchases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a user purchases digital content in a metaverse application, then the user obtains digital assets, but authentication and billing across different metaverse providers becomes complex and unreliable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a federated identity manager as an intermediary component that sits between metaverse applications and users. This manager handles authentication requests across different metaverse providers, creating a centralized trust anchor that resolves the complexity of multi-provider authentication while maintaining reliability. The federated identity manager verifies user identities and manages digital asset ownership across the distributed metaverse ecosystem.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a universal authentication and billing framework that works across multiple metaverse providers simultaneously. The federated identity manager provides multi-functional capabilities including identity verification, digital asset tokenization, and carrier billing coordination, allowing a single system to handle diverse authentication and transaction requirements across different virtual environments.
2Measurement precision
If carrier billing is implemented for digital content purchases, then billing accuracy improves, but the authentication process requires additional verification steps
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication and identity verification through the federated identity manager before the actual purchase transaction occurs. By pre-verifying user identities and establishing trusted relationships with mobile network operators in advance, the system reduces the verification time required at the point of purchase while maintaining billing accuracy through pre-configured carrier billing agreements.
Solution Approach 2:
The implementation includes feedback mechanisms where the federated identity manager receives verification results from mobile network operators and uses this information to confirm or deny purchase transactions. The system continuously refines authentication processes based on verification outcomes, improving both billing accuracy and verification efficiency over time through learned patterns and established trust relationships.
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AI summary
A federated identity manager server configured to receive, from a metaverse server, a virtual identity and user credentials associated with the virtual identity; receive, from a mobile network operator (MNO), subscriber information of the user; create a trusted identity based on the virtual identity and the subscriber information; receive, from the metaverse server, a request to purchase the digital content by the virtual identity; send, to the metaverse server, a verification request that includes a validation challenge for the virtual identity in the metaverse application; send, to a communication device, a verification result that indicates the user of the communication device is verified to purchase the digital content; send, to the MNO, billing confirmation for the digital content, wherein the billing confirmation indicates the digital content is allocated to the user; and receive, from the MNO, a confirmation message that indicates the user is carrier billed for the digital asset.