Messaging System Identity Verification via Profile Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing messaging systems are vulnerable to cyber fraud and phishing due to lack of identity verification for senders, and they restrict communication to only connected users, limiting the exchange of messages beyond electronic formats.
Innovation Solution
The system analyzes unrecognized communication numbers and maps them to profile information, providing identity verification and enabling additional communication functionalities like video calls and VoIP calls by querying a networking system for profile data associated with the sender's communication number.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If messaging systems relay electronic messages with only communication numbers without identity verification, then communication simplicity is maintained, but security and reliability deteriorate due to cyber fraud and phishing risks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a networking system as an intermediary between the messaging system and users. This intermediary performs identity verification by querying profile information associated with communication numbers, thereby maintaining communication simplicity while enhancing security through automated background verification
2Reliability
If messaging systems implement identity verification by mapping communication numbers to profile information, then security and reliability improve, but device complexity and processing requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-mapping communication numbers to profile information in a networking system before messaging occurs. This allows the messaging system to simply query pre-verified identity data rather than performing complex verification in real-time, reducing device complexity while maintaining security
Solution Approach 2:
The networking system acts as an intermediary that handles the complex identity verification process separately from the messaging system. This separation allows the messaging application to remain simple while the intermediary handles the computational burden of mapping and verification
3Reliability
If messaging systems limit communication to connected users only, then control over message volume and sender identification improves, but adaptability and versatility worsen by inhibiting communication with non-connected persons or organizations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by enabling the messaging system to handle both connected and non-connected users through a unified approach. The system can query profile information for any communication number regardless of connection status, allowing versatile communication while maintaining sender identification through the networking system's profile database
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure covers methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that analyze a previously unrecognized communication number associated with a sender of a direct digital message when a client device receives the direct digital message from the previously unrecognized communication number. Based on this analysis, the methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems provide profile information associated with the communication number for the client device to present together with the direct digital message. To find relevant profile information for the communication number, the disclosed methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems optionally query a social networking system for profile information connected to the communication number.