Layered Checkpoint Tagging for Accurate Distributed Data Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data transfer systems in distributed networks are prone to incorrect routing, leading to loss of productivity, added expenses, and security vulnerabilities due to reliance on external systems for data sensitivity verification.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for tracking data via secured, layered data tagging, using checkpoint sensing engines to verify and deconstruct tags at each checkpoint, ensuring accurate routing and security by comparing checkpoint tags with identifiers, and providing real-time notifications for data management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If current data transfer systems rely on external systems for data sensitivity verification and routing, then data transfer can be performed with simpler infrastructure, but routing accuracy deteriorates leading to incorrect data routing and security vulnerabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements nested checkpoint tags within data packets, where each checkpoint tag contains identification information for a specific checkpoint. The tags are nested in a hierarchical structure that allows sequential verification at each checkpoint, with outer tags being removed as each checkpoint is passed, revealing inner tags for subsequent checkpoints.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables data packets to carry their own routing and verification information through embedded checkpoint tags. Each data packet is self-sufficient with embedded identification data that allows checkpoints to verify authenticity and routing without requiring external verification systems, making the data itself serve the verification function.
2Reliability
If checkpoint tags are verified and removed at each checkpoint, then data routing accuracy is improved, but computing resources are consumed for tag verification and management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes verified checkpoint tags from data packets at each checkpoint. Once a checkpoint tag is verified against the checkpoint identifier, it is removed from the packet, eliminating the need to continuously process and store all tag information throughout the data's journey, thus reducing computational overhead at subsequent checkpoints.
Solution Approach 2:
Checkpoint tags are pre-configured with identification information for multiple checkpoints in a hierarchical nested structure before the data packet begins its journey. This preliminary arrangement allows checkpoints to quickly verify and process tags without requiring complex real-time generation or modification of routing information.
3Loss of information
If layered checkpoint tags are used for data tracking, then chain-of-custody visibility is improved, but device complexity increases due to tag deconstruction requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a nested hierarchical structure where checkpoint tags are contained within one another like nested dolls. Each tag is associated with a specific checkpoint and contains identification information. As data passes through checkpoints, outer tags are removed to reveal inner tags, providing a clear sequential record of the data's journey through the network.
Solution Approach 2:
The complete hierarchical structure of nested checkpoint tags is pre-established before data transmission begins. Each tag's identification information is predetermined and organized in the nested structure, allowing checkpoints to simply verify and remove appropriate tags without requiring complex real-time analysis or reconstruction of the chain-of-custody information.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, computer program products, and methods for tracking data transferred in a distributed network via secured, layered data tagging. A checkpoint sensing engine collects data flow at a checkpoint device and verifies a match between a checkpoint tag of the transaction packet and a checkpoint identifier of the checkpoint device. If no match occurs, the transaction packet it transmitted to a quarantine unit. If a match occurs, a deconstruction engine then removes the checkpoint tag, exposing an underlying second checkpoint tag corresponding with a second checkpoint device. Thereafter, the transaction packet is transmitted to the second checkpoint device.