Unique Identifier Profile Sharing for Secure Contact Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for updating contact information with multiple entities are tedious, error-prone, and insecure, often requiring manual updates and lacking accuracy, especially when individuals change contact details like name, address, or email.
Innovation Solution
A profile sharing device stores current user profile information in an encrypted repository linked to a unique identifier, such as a credit card number, allowing secure and automatic sharing of updated contact information with third-party entities via an API call, authenticated by verifying the user's identity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual updating of contact information with multiple entities is used, then users can update their information, but the process becomes tedious and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic self-service updating of contact information. When a user updates their contact information in the encrypted repository, the system automatically propagates these updates to all connected third-party entities without requiring manual intervention from the user for each entity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes connections and trust relationships between users and third-party entities through authenticated API calls. This preliminary setup allows automatic information sharing to occur later without requiring real-time authentication or manual updates for each entity.
2Reliability
If contact information is stored in plain text for easy access, then retrieval is fast, but security and privacy are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies encryption specifically to the contact information storage component while keeping other system components unchanged. The encrypted repository uses robust encryption standards to protect user data, while the API and authentication mechanisms remain relatively simple and straightforward.
3Productivity
If user profile information is shared with multiple entities manually, then each entity gets updated information, but the process is tedious and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The encrypted repository acts as a trusted intermediary between users and multiple third-party entities. It centrally stores authenticated contact information and automatically distributes updates to all connected entities, ensuring consistency and accuracy across the entire system.
4Productivity
If automated sharing of contact information is implemented, then efficiency increases, but user authorization and control become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and separates the authentication and authorization processes from the main information sharing workflow. Users authenticate once through a dedicated authentication mechanism, and this authorization is then reused automatically for all subsequent information sharing operations with connected entities.
Data Source
AI summary
In some implementations, a system for supplying user profile information may store, in an encrypted data repository, user profile information associated with a unique identifier. The system may receive, from a requester device, a request for the user profile information associated with the unique identifier, wherein the request may be associated with an application program interface call requesting approval to use the unique identifier. The system may communicate with a user device associated with the unique identifier to authenticate an identity associated with a user operating the user device. The system may provide the user profile information associated with the unique identifier to the requester device based on receiving information to authenticate the identity associated with the user operating the user device and verify that the user authorizes supplying the user profile information to the requester device.