Master Cookie File for Secure Multi-Account Credential Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in managing multiple online account usernames and passwords, including remembering unique values, security risks from common selections, and the inconvenience of repetitive registration processes, with existing solutions like browser memory and AutoFill technologies having limitations such as security issues and lack of compatibility with various websites.
Innovation Solution
A system and method utilizing a Master Cookie File that allows users to store and manage their registration information, including usernames and passwords, with a flowing pop-up menu for easy selection and automatic updating across multiple accounts, along with features like expiration management and temporary access sharing, without requiring specific web page encoding or language standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users manually enter and remember multiple unique usernames and passwords for different online accounts, then security is improved by using unique values, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to the burden of remembering and managing numerous login details
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates unique usernames and passwords for multiple online accounts without requiring user intervention. The server autonomously manages the creation, storage, and rotation of credentials, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring users to manually manage each account's login information.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between the user and multiple online accounts. Instead of users directly managing numerous usernames and passwords, the server mediates by storing, generating, and automatically inputting credentials into web forms, thereby simplifying the user's interaction while maintaining security through unique values.
2Ease of operation
If users select common usernames and passwords for multiple accounts, then the ease of operation improves by using familiar values, but security deteriorates due to the risk of compromise across multiple accounts
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates copies of a user's personal information (name, address, etc.) and uses these copied elements to generate unique usernames and passwords for each account. Instead of using the user's actual personal information directly, the system processes and transforms these copies into secure, account-specific credentials that maintain uniqueness while being derived from familiar personal data.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms personal information parameters (name, address, phone number) into different formats and combinations to generate unique credentials. By changing the parameters of how personal information is used—such as reversing strings, adding suffixes, or combining different fields—the system creates secure unique values while maintaining ease of generation.
3Ease of operation
If existing AutoFill technologies are used to automatically complete forms, then the ease of operation improves, but reliability deteriorates due to security issues and lack of compatibility with various websites
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the credential management process into distinct components: personal information storage, credential generation, form detection, and automatic input. By dividing the functionality into separate modules that can operate independently, the system achieves broader website compatibility while maintaining security controls that address the reliability issues of previous integrated solutions.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary layer between the user's personal information and the various website forms. This mediator approach allows the system to adapt to different website formats and encoding standards without exposing the user's raw personal information, thereby improving both compatibility across websites and security through controlled information disclosure.
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AI summary
A system for automatically completing fields in online forms, such as login forms and new user registration forms, which employs a Master Cookie File containing sets of records associated with the user, his or her accounts or web sites, and registered values associated with form tags (e.g. username, password, address, email, telephone, etc.). When the user encounters another form, the MCF is automatically searched for matching values and form tags, primarily from the same account or web site, or alternatively from other accounts or sites. A flowing pop-up menu is displayed nearby the form fields from which the user can select values to automatically complete the form. Automatic account information updating, value expiration management, mapping of favorite values, and sharing of values are optional, enhanced functions of the invention.