Mobile Device Authorization for Restricted Content Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multimedia computer systems struggle to effectively authorize user access to restricted content, such as age-restricted games and videos, without requiring users to create an account or provide unnecessary personal information, and often fail to prevent underage access due to inadequate verification methods.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that uses a mobile device to retrieve a network address from a multimedia computer, prompt the user for authorization information, and transmit this information to an authorization server for verification, generating an authorization code that allows access to restricted content without needing user credentials on the content server, utilizing a self-sovereign identity provider for secure user profiling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a user is required to create an account with the multimedia computer operator to access restricted content, then access control reliability is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to registration requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile device as an intermediary between the user and the multimedia computer. The mobile device captures authorization data (such as age verification information) and transmits it to the multimedia computer, eliminating the need for users to create accounts directly with the multimedia system while maintaining reliable access control verification
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the authorization verification process from the multimedia computer system and relocates it to the user's mobile device. The multimedia computer only needs to receive and process the authorization data transmitted by the mobile device, simplifying its own system architecture while maintaining verification capability
2Ease of operation
If simple user confirmation is used for age verification, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability of age verification deteriorates allowing underage access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent requires that authorization data be captured and verified in advance on the user's mobile device before the user attempts to access restricted content on the multimedia computer. This preliminary verification ensures reliability while keeping the actual access process simple, as the mobile device has already confirmed the user's eligibility
3Reliability
If user personal information is stored on the multimedia computer for verification, then access control reliability is improved, but loss of information and security risks worsen due to data storage requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts personal information and authorization data from the multimedia computer system and stores it exclusively on the user's mobile device. The multimedia computer only receives verification results or authorization codes from the mobile device, eliminating the need to store sensitive user information locally while maintaining access control reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device serves as an intermediary that holds and manages user personal information securely. It transmits only necessary verification data to the multimedia computer, reducing the information storage requirements and security risks on the multimedia system while maintaining reliable access control
Data Source
AI summary
A mobile device may retrieve, from a multimedia computer, a network address at which a condition is defined. The condition may relate to authorizing access to restricted content associated with the multimedia computer. The mobile device may also retrieve details of the condition that is defined at the network address. The mobile device may prompt a user of the mobile device for permission to provide, to an authorization server, authorization information that relates to the condition. The mobile device may transmit, to the authorization server, the authorization information and a user profile identifier of the user. Based on a confirmation of the validity of the authorization information, the mobile device may receive an authorization code from the authorization server. Based on the receiving of the authorization code, the mobile device may provide a graphical user interface that provides access to the restricted content associated with the multimedia computer.