Digital Ledger Authentication Across In-Flight Network Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Passengers on mobile platforms face challenges in modifying and authenticating multi-party information across different stages of their travel journey due to limited connectivity and authentication issues when switching between networks, leading to difficulties in updating agreements and transactions with third-party services.
Innovation Solution
A computing platform integrated with various networks and systems acts as a persistent authentication party, maintaining a digital ledger that allows users to modify multi-party information by authenticating parties and recording transactions, ensuring continuity of control over digital identities and communications across different connectivity mediums.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If passengers switch between different networks during travel, then connectivity options are improved, but authentication reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The computing platform acts as an intermediary authentication authority that mediates between passengers and third-party services. It issues digital certificates to passengers and validates them when passengers connect to different networks, ensuring consistent authentication across terrestrial networks and in-vehicle systems without requiring network-specific authentication mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication system is designed to be universal across multiple network types. The computing platform provides a single authentication mechanism that works both when passengers connect via terrestrial networks and when they connect via in-vehicle connectivity systems, eliminating the need for separate authentication systems for different connectivity mediums.
2Ease of operation
If passengers access multi-party information during travel, then user control over digital personas is improved, but connectivity limitations worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication by issuing digital certificates to passengers before they need to access or modify multi-party information. The computing platform pre-validates passenger identities and stores authentication data that can be used across different network connections, eliminating the need for re-authentication when connectivity conditions change during travel.
3Reliability
If a persistent authentication system is implemented, then authentication reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The computing platform automatically manages authentication by issuing digital certificates to passengers and third-party services, and automatically validating these certificates when multi-party information is accessed or modified. The system performs self-service authentication without requiring manual intervention from passengers or complex authentication protocols, reducing operational complexity while maintaining high reliability.
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AI summary
A central computing platform provides users with control over multi-party information involving third-party services during different stages of a travel journey, or while users are provided with data connectivity via different networks or systems. The central computing platform provides a digital ledger on which the multi-party information is recorded. Recording of the multi-party information, as well as modification thereof, requires authentication of each party as well as input (e.g., approval) by the computing platform. The central computing platform can be communicatively coupled with local networks, such as cellular networks, as well as mobile platforms or in-vehicle connectivity systems to which user devices can be connected. As a result, the central computing platform is involved in generation, recording, modification, and fulfillment of multi-party arrangements between users and third-party services.