Metaverse Avatar Access Control via Visualization Differentiation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The metaverse poses security and privacy risks as unauthorized avatars can access sensitive information and valuables within financial transactions, leading to potential financial theft and fraud.
Innovation Solution
A computer system regulates access within the metaverse by using processors and non-transitory computer-readable storage media to create environments with restrictive access, receiving credentials from avatars, and modifying visualizations based on trust levels to deny or permit access, ensuring secure and private interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the metaverse environment provides open access to all avatars, then the ease of operation and interaction is improved, but security and privacy risks worsen as unauthorized avatars can observe and misappropriate sensitive information and funds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating different visualization qualities for different avatars within the same metaverse environment. Trusted avatars receive full-quality visualizations allowing them to see sensitive information, while untrusted avatars receive degraded visualizations that obscure or hide sensitive information. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining open environmental access while applying localized quality control to specific avatars based on their trust credentials.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the metaverse environment implements restrictive access controls, then security and privacy are improved, but the ease of operation and user experience deteriorates due to limited access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic access control where the level of access and visualization quality is not fixed but adjusts dynamically based on the credentials and trust level of each avatar. The system continuously evaluates avatar credentials and modifies visualization delivery in real-time, allowing trusted avatars full access while restricting untrusted ones. This dynamic approach resolves the contradiction by making access control adaptive rather than static.
3Ease of operation
If the system provides full visualization access to all avatars, then the ease of operation is improved, but loss of information control worsens as sensitive financial information becomes vulnerable to unauthorized observation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the color changes principle by modifying the visualization appearance for different avatars. Trusted avatars see information in its normal, full-quality form, while untrusted avatars see degraded visualizations where sensitive information is obscured, blurred, or hidden. This visual differentiation resolves the contradiction by maintaining information visibility for authorized users while preventing unauthorized observation through visualization modification.
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AI summary
Differentiation of access within the metaverse. According to one aspect, a metaverse visualization of an environment is modified as viewed by an avatar upon access of the environment by another avatar. According to another aspect, access of an avatar to a restricted access environment within the metaverse enables trusted avatars selective access to the restricted access environment together with the avatar.