Identity Verification System Using Third-Party Intermediary

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current age verification technologies are unreliable and easily falsified, leading to children accessing inappropriate online content and fraudulent use of identification documents, while traditional surveys face challenges in targeting and verifying demographics for effective marketing and data collection.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for verifying user identity through a log-in server and subscriber server, which evaluates registrant and subscriber identification data to grant access to content, prevent fraudulent identity document misuse, and prequalify survey participants based on demographics, thereby enhancing security and survey efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional age verification technology is used, then access control is implemented, but the verification is unreliable and easily falsified

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveage verification reliabilityVSAvoidfraudulent access

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a third-party verification service as an intermediary between users and content providers. This service independently verifies age and identity information, returning verification results to content providers. The intermediary model prevents direct reliance on user-provided information that can be easily falsified, thereby improving verification reliability and reducing fraudulent access.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary verification of age and identity information before granting access to restricted content. By conducting verification in advance through a trusted third party, the system ensures that only verified users gain access, preventing fraudulent access attempts and improving the overall reliability of the age verification process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If identification documents are issued by government entities, then citizen identification is established, but the documents cannot be controlled or monitored after issuance

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveidentification document usabilityVSAvoiddocument verification security

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where verification results from third-party services are continuously collected and stored. This feedback loop allows the system to learn from verification outcomes, update verification criteria, and improve detection of fraudulent documents. The accumulated verification data enables ongoing monitoring and adaptation to new fraud patterns, enhancing document verification security while maintaining usability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual inspection of physical identification documents with automated electronic verification processes. Third-party services electronically verify document authenticity and cross-reference information against multiple data sources, substituting the mechanical process of manual document checking with automated, more reliable electronic verification systems that can detect fraud more effectively.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If traditional survey methods are used, then data collection is performed, but it is difficult to verify demographics and target specific audiences

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesurvey data collection efficiencyVSAvoiddemographic verification accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the survey data collection process with the existing identity verification infrastructure. By combining demographic verification already performed for age-restricted content access with survey participation requirements, the system efficiently collects accurate demographic data without requiring separate verification processes. This integration improves both survey productivity and demographic measurement precision simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS8893241B2Systems and methods for universal enhanced log-in, identity document verification and dedicated survey participation

Publication Date: 2014.11.18 ALBRIGHT ASSOCS

AI summary

Systems and methods are provided for controlling access via a computer network to a subscriber server. A log-in server receives a query to connect through the computer network to the subscriber server, and the log-in server receives registrant identification data, A first session is established between the log-in server and the subscriber server to validate the registrant identification data, and to generate a session password. A second session is established between the log-in server and the subscriber server. The second session is configured to authorize, based in part on the registrant identification data, access to at least a portion of a website associated with the subscriber server.