Intermediary Identity Encoding for Confidential Cross-System User Linking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing serialization and traceability systems for products often operate independently, leading to separate user profiles for the same consumer across different systems, which is inefficient and can be confusing for users, while also lacking the ability to coordinate and combine valuable historical consumer data without compromising confidentiality.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that facilitates communication and information exchange between two computer systems by establishing a common intermediary user identity, allowing the systems to recognize users as the same without exchanging their primary identities, using connector engines to generate and verify tokens for secure data sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate user profiles are maintained in different traceability systems, then each system can operate independently with its own data management, but the same consumer appears as different users across systems leading to inefficiency and user confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary user identity that acts as a bridge between different traceability systems. This intermediary identity allows systems to communicate and recognize the same consumer without exposing their internal user profile structures, thus maintaining system independence while providing a unified user experience.
2Ease of operation
If user identities are exchanged between systems, then seamless user recognition can be achieved, but sensitive user information confidentiality is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediary user identity serves as a confidential mediator that enables user recognition across systems without revealing sensitive internal user data. Each system maintains its own user identity structure while the intermediary identity provides the link, ensuring confidentiality is preserved.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy or representation of user identity in the form of an intermediary identity that functions across multiple systems without being the original sensitive user data. This copy enables recognition while the original confidential information remains protected within each system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If historical consumer data is shared across systems, then coordinated data management and new functionalities can be enabled, but the complexity of managing data confidentiality increases
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediary user identity simplifies confidentiality management by providing a standardized interface for data sharing. Instead of managing complex point-to-point confidentiality agreements between systems, the intermediary identity serves as a universal mediator that handles data exchange with built-in confidentiality protections.
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AI summary
A computer implemented method for facilitating communication and information exchange between a first computer system (100) and a second computer system (200), wherein the first computer system (100) is arranged to comprise one or more first user profiles (120) for corresponding one or more unique and internal first user identities (110) for corresponding one or more first consumers (105) the second computer system (200) is arranged to comprise one or more second user profiles (220) for corresponding one or more second unique and internal user identities (210) for one or more the second consumers (205) wherein at least one the first consumer (105) and at least one the second consumer (205) actually is the same person; the method including providing a unique common intermediary user identity (310) whereby the first user identity (110) and the second user identity (210) are mutually bound (800) via the common intermediary user identification (310); wherein the common intermediary user identification (310) is resolved/decoded to first the user identity (110) by the first computer system (100), and wherein the common intermediary user identification (310) is resolved/decoded to the second user identity (210) by the second computer system (200), whereby the information exchange, related to the first user profile (120) of the first consumer (105) or the second user profile (220) of the second consumer (205) between the first computer system (100) and the second computer system (200) is enabled using the common intermediary encoded user identity (310) and take place without exchanging the first and second user identities (110, 210).