Identity Token Mapping for Cross-Platform Data Masking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users are required to provide the same personal information multiple times across different platforms, leading to errors and potential fraud, as existing systems are siloed and incompatible, preventing the tracing of relationships among data stored across these platforms.
Innovation Solution
A digitized token system that stores user information offline, including relationship data, allows users to provide a token identifier instead of repeated personal information, and limits data visibility to the subset required by each platform, using a machine learning model to mask unnecessary data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users provide personal information manually to each platform, then platforms can maintain their own records independently, but users must repeatedly provide the same information leading to errors and fraud
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital twin or copy of the user's personal information in the form of a token that can be shared across platforms. Instead of users manually providing information to each platform, a single source of truth is established and replicated across multiple systems through the token mechanism, eliminating repeated manual entry and reducing errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a token as an intermediary between the user's personal information and the various platforms. This token acts as a mediator that carries the necessary information credentials, allowing platforms to verify user identity and information without directly accessing the user's personal data storage, thus streamlining the information provision process.
2Adaptability or versatility
If platforms use different incompatible systems for maintaining records, then each platform can operate independently, but they cannot trace relationships among data stored across platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal token standard that can be used across multiple different platforms and systems. This token serves multiple functions: it represents user identity, carries relationship information, and enables cross-platform data linkage. The universal token format allows incompatible systems to interoperate through a common interface, maintaining platform independence while enabling relationship tracing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a new dimension to data storage by creating an offline token that exists separately from the platform-specific databases. This token dimension contains relationship information that bridges multiple platforms, allowing systems to maintain their independent record structures while gaining the ability to trace relationships through the token's embedded data.
3Loss of information
If all user data is made accessible to platforms, then platforms can have complete information, but security is compromised by excessive data sharing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making the token selectively accessible to different platforms based on their specific needs. Each platform receives only the portion of data contained in the token that is relevant to its function, rather than having access to the user's complete data set. This localized data sharing approach maintains security while providing necessary information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the user's personal information into different components within the token, allowing platforms to access only the specific segments they require. The token structure enables fine-grained control over data access, with different platforms receiving different subsets of the total information, thus balancing completeness with security.
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AI summary
Examples are directed to systems and methods that provide a token having a corresponding token identifier. The token is associated with a user and stores electronic data having a plurality of data sets associated with the user. The token is configured to interface with each of a plurality of disparate electronic platforms and map relationships of the user with ones of the plurality of disparate electronic platforms. The token can be used to identify a first data set of the plurality of data sets having data that corresponds to the data request and provide the first data set to a recipient while simultaneously masking a second data set of the plurality of data sets from the recipient.