Electronic Message Service Intermediary for Secure Delivery Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic postage systems face issues with unreliable message delivery receipts, requirement for secure storage, complexity in compatibility with existing protocols, and lack of integrated solutions for service properties and billing, making them difficult to use and integrate with existing infrastructure.
Innovation Solution
A method and device for electronic service that ensures secure and reliable message delivery by using existing protocols like SMTP, minimizing communication chain messages, allowing flexibility in message reception, and separating service provider, payment processor, and message delivery, while maintaining sender anonymity and message privacy without additional encryption or signing requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing electronic postage systems are used, then message delivery can be achieved, but reliable delivery confirmation and sender receipt assurance are not ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service provider as an intermediary that receives messages from senders, stores them securely, and delivers them to recipients while providing reliable delivery confirmations. The service provider acts as a trusted mediator that ensures both parties receive accurate delivery information without requiring complex direct verification mechanisms between senders and recipients.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the service provider sends delivery confirmation messages to senders and delivery status information to recipients. This feedback loop ensures reliable delivery confirmation by continuously updating both parties on the message delivery status, eliminating uncertainty about whether the message was successfully delivered.
2Reliability
If secure storage of messages with trusted third party is implemented, then message delivery reliability improves, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The service provider performs multiple functions within a single system: receiving messages from senders, storing them securely, delivering them to recipients, providing delivery confirmations, and handling billing. This multi-functionality reduces overall system complexity by consolidating what would otherwise require separate systems into one unified platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables senders to automatically attach service data to their messages without manual intervention, and the service provider automatically processes delivery and generates confirmations. This automation reduces the operational complexity for users while maintaining reliable delivery through systematic automated processes.
3Reliability
If new secure electronic mailbox with distinctive electronic address is required, then message security improves, but compatibility with existing protocols and software decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The service provider acts as an intermediary that translates between existing email protocols and secure delivery mechanisms. It receives standard email messages from senders using conventional protocols, secures them appropriately, and delivers them to recipients while maintaining compatibility with existing email infrastructure and protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the message handling process into distinct phases: reception via existing protocols, secure storage, and delivery through established channels. This segmentation allows each phase to use appropriate security measures without requiring complete protocol redesign, maintaining compatibility while enhancing security.
4Adaptability or versatility
If integrated solution for setting service properties on sender end and billing per service is implemented, then service functionality improves, but device complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides automated service property setting where senders can configure delivery options, security requirements, and billing parameters without manual system configuration. The service provider automatically interprets these properties and applies appropriate handling, reducing implementation complexity while maintaining flexible service configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
Service properties are set in advance when the sender attaches service data to the message, before the message is processed. This preliminary configuration allows the system to automatically apply the correct handling procedures and billing rates without complex real-time decision-making, simplifying implementation while providing flexible service customization.
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AI summary
METHOD AND DEVICE FOIZ ELECTRONIC SERVICE OF CERTIFIED ELECTRONIC MESSAGES solves technical problem of assuring sender of the message that it can obtain the message sent receipt and provides protection that will prohibit receiving party reading of the message content without confirming electronic message received receipt at the same time with as minimum change in existing infrastructure of the sending and receiving party as possible. The proposed solution protects anonymity of the sender, privacy of the message content and introduces method for per service payment. Because of the proposed method for message sending the sender does not need additional capacities for ciphering or electronic signing of messages. The system is based on at least one device that comprises of at least central processing unit with accompanying circuitry for operation of the central processing unit and its communication with other parts of the device, power supply unit, temporary memory for reading and writing, controller, network adapter, permanent memory for reading and writing and on/off button.