Hardwired eCommerce Machine Isolating Domains to Block Malware
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cybersecurity measures are inadequate in preventing cybercrimes that exploit the Turing-equivalence of shared CPU hardware, leading to unauthorized computing tasks and potential financial or physical damage.
Innovation Solution
A domain-specific hardwired eCommerce machine that precludes malware entry by organizing data into symbols within enumerated sets, using fixed and variable symbols encapsulated in hardwired memory, and implementing information processing through isolated combinatorial logic pipelines, ensuring immutable input-output ports and domains.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional Turing-equivalent computers with shared CPU hardware are used, then computing versatility and re-programmability are achieved, but cybersecurity vulnerability and malware susceptibility increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the computing system into isolated domain-specific machines rather than shared CPU hardware. Each machine operates in its own isolated domain with dedicated hardware resources, preventing malware propagation between systems while maintaining specialized computing capabilities for specific eCommerce functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the universal CPU and shared memory components from the system, replacing them with domain-specific hardwired circuits. This extraction eliminates the vulnerable shared resources that malware exploits, while preserving the essential computing functions through dedicated hardware pathways.
2Adaptability or versatility
If shared CPU hardware with open-ended register sequences is used, then computational flexibility is achieved, but unauthorized computing tasks and cybercrime opportunities increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by providing domain-specific hardware circuits tailored to particular eCommerce functions (e.g., payment processing, inventory management). Each local domain has customized hardware that can only perform authorized operations within its designated scope, eliminating the ability to execute unauthorized computing tasks while preserving necessary computational flexibility for legitimate purposes.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of providing universal computational flexibility that can be misused, the patent inverts the approach by providing only the specific computational flexibility needed for authorized domain operations. The hardware is designed to be flexible within constraints but rigid against unauthorized operations, reversing the conventional paradigm of unrestricted flexibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If reconfigurable co-processors and virtual machines are used, then system adaptability is achieved, but computational efficiency and cybersecurity performance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring domain-specific hardware circuits for specific eCommerce operations during manufacturing. Rather than requiring runtime reconfiguration of virtual machines or co-processors, the hardware is ready to execute authorized domain operations immediately, eliminating the computational overhead associated with system reconfiguration and virtualization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent substitutes the software-based reconfiguration mechanisms (virtual machines, dynamic co-processors) with dedicated hardware circuits. This replacement eliminates the computational overhead of virtualization and dynamic loading, achieving superior computational efficiency while maintaining adaptability through hardware-level domain-specific optimizations.
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AI summary
A domain-specific hardwired symbolic eCommerce machine is described that processes information via the hardwired mapping of symbols from one or more domains onto other such domains, computing and communicating with improved security and reduced power consumption because it has no CPU, no Random Access Memory (RAM), no instruction registers, no Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), no operating system (OS) and no applications programming. The machine provides web services by recognizing legal requests such as HTTP POST request and responding with an HTML web page. In some embodiments, the machine has no unconstrained RAM into which malware may insert itself and needs no anti-virus software.