Mnemonic Application for Secure Verbal Data Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for securely transmitting sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, over telephone connections do not effectively address the risk of data theft in public or poor communication environments, as they focus on network communications rather than real-world verbal exchanges.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method using a mnemonic application that generates a sequence of words representing sensitive data, encrypted with a shared key, allowing secure verbal communication over a telephone connection, where the data can be decoded back into its original numeric form by the recipient.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If sensitive data is communicated verbally over telephone connection, then communication speed is improved, but security is worsened due to risk of eavesdropping and data theft
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary encoding mechanism (mnemonic application with encryption algorithm) that transforms sensitive data into an encoded mnemonic sequence before verbal communication. This intermediary layer protects the data while allowing efficient verbal transmission, resolving the contradiction between communication speed and security.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter representation of sensitive data from raw numeric/alphabetic form to an encoded mnemonic sequence using a specific algorithm. This parameter transformation maintains communicability while enhancing security against eavesdropping, addressing the contradiction between transmission efficiency and data protection.
2Reliability
If encryption is applied to sensitive data, then data security is improved, but device complexity is worsened due to encryption key management and algorithm integration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a pre-established encryption algorithm and key pair system where the public key can be shared without revealing the private key. This copying approach allows secure data transformation while maintaining manageable complexity through standardized cryptographic protocols rather than custom complex systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the encryption functionality into a dedicated mnemonic application module that handles data transformation separately from the communication system. This segmentation isolates complexity within a specific component while keeping the overall system architecture manageable and modular.
3Reliability
If mnemonic application is used to encode data, then data security is improved through encryption, but ease of operation is worsened due to additional steps for encoding and decoding
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service functionality where the mnemonic application automatically handles encoding and decoding operations using stored encryption keys and algorithms. The system serves itself by managing the cryptographic operations without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining ease of use while ensuring security.
Solution Approach 2:
The encryption algorithm and key pairs are pre-configured in the mnemonic application before use. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for users to manually configure security parameters, maintaining operational simplicity while providing robust encryption protection for sensitive data communication.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for utilizing a mnemonic to communicate sensitive data to an agent are disclosed. In aspects, a computer-implemented method comprises: establishing a telephone connection between a caller and an agent; entering an encryption key received from the agent into a mnemonic application of the computer device to permute an algorithm of the mnemonic application; receiving sensitive data in the form of one or more alphabetic, numeric or alpha-numeric sequence; initiating the mnemonic application to generate a mnemonic of the sensitive data using the encryption key, wherein the mnemonic is a sequence of words representing the sensitive data; displaying the mnemonic to the caller; and conveying audio communication of the mnemonic to the agent through the telephone connection to enable remote decoding of the mnemonic back into the at least one sensitive number sequence.