Immutable Client Identification Profiles Across Cloud Applications

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing client identity management systems in cloud computing environments lack efficient methods for managing client immutable identification profiles across multiple content service applications and devices, leading to potential security vulnerabilities and data integrity issues.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a client immutable identification profile that includes an immutable identification value and credential set, which is transmitted and attached to content service application data, enabling secure archiving and search functionality across multiple applications and devices, while preventing unconfirmed accounts and maintaining data provenance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional client identity management systems are used across multiple content service applications, then each application can independently manage its own client accounts, but client identification is inconsistent across platforms and security vulnerabilities arise

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveclient data integrityVSAvoididentity management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal immutable identification profile that functions across multiple content service applications. The aggregator service transmits this profile between applications, enabling the same identification mechanism to serve multiple purposes: authenticating clients, maintaining data integrity, and enabling cross-application recognition without requiring separate identity systems for each application.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The aggregator service acts as an intermediary that facilitates the transmission of immutable identification profiles between the first and subsequent content service applications. This mediator component resolves the complexity by centralizing profile management and authentication logic, allowing individual applications to remain simple while achieving system-wide consistency and reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If client identification is not standardized across applications, then each application can operate independently, but security vulnerabilities and unauthorized access risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesecurityVSAvoidcross-application access

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary authentication by verifying the immutable identification profile at the aggregator service before the client accesses subsequent content service applications. This advance verification establishes security credentials in advance, allowing the client to access multiple applications securely without repeated authentication while maintaining consistent security policies across the ecosystem.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If immutable identification profiles are transmitted across multiple applications, then consistent client identification is achieved, but data transmission and processing overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveidentification consistencyVSAvoidprofile transmission time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential immutable identification credentials from the complete client profile and transmits this condensed information between applications. By taking out only the necessary identification elements rather than transmitting entire profile datasets, the system achieves precise and consistent identification while minimizing data transmission overhead and processing time.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

4Loss of information

If content service application data is archived without immutable identification profiles, then storage is simpler, but data provenance and audit capabilities are lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata provenanceVSAvoiddata archiving complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the immutable identification profile information with the content service application data during archiving. By combining the identification credentials with the archived data, the system maintains data provenance and enables future retrieval and verification without requiring separate, complex tracking systems. This integration simplifies the archiving process while preserving essential information integrity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12443698B2Configuring a client immutable identification profile

Publication Date: 2025.10.14 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

Techniques are described relating to client profile management in a managed services domain of a cloud computing environment. The techniques enable client profile configuration across multiple client application accounts and/or multiple client devices. An associated computer-implemented method includes facilitating creation of an immutable identification profile associated with a client in the context of a client-associated request to access a first content service application. The immutable identification profile associated with the client includes an immutable identification value and an immutable identification credential set. The computer-implemented method further includes receiving notification of a client-associated request to access a subsequent content service application and transmitting the immutable identification profile associated with the client to the subsequent content service application based upon connectivity to aggregator service functionality.