Hybrid Client Communication Pathway for Secure Data Transfer

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication methods between client devices often expose highly sensitive data to communications servers, compromising security, especially when data needs to be transmitted across different networks and third-party datacenters.

Innovation Solution

Establishing a hybrid connection with a regular communications pathway through a communications server and a highly confidential pathway that circumvents the server, ensuring highly sensitive data is only transmitted through the secure pathway, maintaining confidentiality within the private enterprise network.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If data is transmitted through a communications server, then communication reliability is improved, but data security deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication reliabilityVSAvoiddata security

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the communication pathway into two distinct channels: a regular pathway through the communications server for general data, and a confidential pathway bypassing the server for sensitive data. This segmentation allows the system to maintain reliable server-based communication while protecting sensitive data through a separate secure channel.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts highly sensitive data from the regular server-based communication stream and routes it through a separate confidential pathway that bypasses the communications server entirely. This extraction ensures that sensitive data is not exposed to potential security risks at the server while maintaining communication reliability through the server for other data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If a direct connection is used between client devices, then data security is improved, but communication reliability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata securityVSAvoidcommunication reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges direct peer-to-peer connection capabilities with server-based communication infrastructure. The system combines the security benefits of direct connections with the reliability benefits of server-based communication, allowing clients to establish direct confidential pathways while the server provides coordination and backup capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9646163B2Communicating data between client devices using a hybrid connection having a regular communications pathway and a highly confidential communications pathway

Publication Date: 2017.05.09 GOTO GRP INC

AI summary

A technique communicates data between a first client device and a second client device. The technique involves establishing a regular communications pathway from the first client device to the second client device through a communications server, and establishing a highly confidential communications pathway from the first client device to the second client device. The highly confidential communications pathway circumvents the communications server. The technique further involves, after the regular communications pathway and the highly confidential communications pathway are established, conveying highly sensitive information from the first client device to the second client device only through the highly confidential communications pathway to avoid exposing the highly sensitive data to the communications server through the regular communications pathway.