Identity Verification Workflow Optimization

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Solution Overview

Problem

In existing systems, users face a significant burden when performing identity verification across multiple business entities, as they must individually update and verify attribute information at each entity, leading to increased procedure time and complexity.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that generate a workflow to minimize identity verification time by optimizing the distribution of electronic certificates among business entities, using a mathematical programming algorithm to determine the most efficient sequence of user-based and electronic-certificate-based identity verification procedures, thereby reducing the burden on users and entities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users perform identity verification at each business entity individually, then each entity can verify user information accurately, but the total procedure time and user burden increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveidentity verification accuracyVSAvoidtotal procedure time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the identity verification process into distinct phases: initial verification at one business entity, electronic certificate issuance, and subsequent verification at other entities. This segmentation allows parallel processing of verification tasks across multiple entities, reducing total procedure time while maintaining verification accuracy through systematic organization of the verification workflow

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements preliminary action by performing identity verification at one business entity first, obtaining electronic certificates in advance, and then using these pre-obtained certificates for verification at subsequent entities. This preliminary verification approach eliminates the need for repeated verification procedures at each entity, significantly reducing total procedure time while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If users submit certificates to each business entity individually, then each entity can update attribute information accurately, but the number of operations and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveattribute information update accuracyVSAvoidverification system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism in the form of electronic certificates that mediate between the user and multiple business entities. These certificates serve as a standardized intermediary document that carries verified attribute information, allowing accurate updates across entities without requiring complex individual verification procedures at each entity, thereby reducing system complexity while maintaining update accuracy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses copying by creating electronic certificates that contain copies of verified user attribute information. Once verified at one entity, the attribute information is copied into electronic certificates that can be presented to subsequent entities, eliminating the need for repeated verification and reducing operational complexity while ensuring accurate information transfer

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If multiple business entities verify user information independently, then each entity maintains data security, but the total number of verification procedures increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata securityVSAvoidverification throughput

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements continuity of useful action by establishing a continuous verification workflow where electronic certificates issued by one business entity are directly accepted by subsequent entities. This continuous process eliminates gaps and repetitions in verification, allowing multiple entities to process verification requests in sequence without idle time, thereby increasing verification throughput while maintaining data security through the certificate-based continuous verification chain

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS11799653B2Computer-readable recording medium, management apparatus, and method for identity verification

Publication Date: 2023.10.24 FUJITSU LTD

AI summary

An identity verification is managed by generating a workflow used by a control apparatus that controls a system in which a plurality of business entities manages attribute information in user information that identifies a user. The workflow is generated, based on a first list of target business entities that perform identity verification of the user, a second list of business entities indicating whether cooperation is performed among the business entities for the identity verification, a number of electronic certificates that certify the user information for completing the identity verification, and a procedure time taken by each of the business entities for the identity verification, so that the workflow minimizes a procedure time taken for completion of the identity verification by the target business entities, and that describes a distribution procedure of the electronic certificates that are used in the identity verification at each of the business entities.