Mobility Arbiter Centralizes User Authorization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face complex and lengthy processes when utilizing multiple mobility services, which discourages adoption and leads to abandonment, while mobility operators struggle with validating diverse forms of identification and payment, increasing operational costs and fraud risks.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method using a mobility database with an arbiter that validates user identification and payment data, allowing for simplified authorization across various mobility services, reducing the need for users to carry multiple documents and enabling centralized validation by the arbiter, thus streamlining the authorization process for both users and operators.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each mobility service has its own separate processes for user registration and usage, then each service can validate identification and payment independently, but the processes become complex and lengthy for users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the identification validation and payment verification functions into a single centralized arbiter system. The arbiter consolidates these previously separate validation processes, allowing mobility operators to rely on one unified authorization source rather than implementing multiple independent validation systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The arbiter is designed as a universal system that handles both identification validation and payment verification through a single interface. This multi-functional arbiter serves all mobility operators regardless of the specific service type, providing a standardized authorization mechanism across diverse mobility services.
2Ease of operation
If mobility operators implement their own validation facilities for identification and payment, then they maintain control over the authorization process, but operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The arbiter acts as an intermediary between mobility operators and users, handling the computationally intensive tasks of identification validation and payment verification. This allows mobility operators to maintain authorization control through the arbiter interface while avoiding the high operational costs of implementing their own validation facilities.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users must carry forms of identification and payment for each mobility service, then service-specific requirements can be met, but user convenience decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation of user identification and payment information through the arbiter before the actual mobility service usage. This pre-authorization process stores validation results, allowing users to access multiple mobility services without repeatedly presenting physical identification or payment documents, as the arbiter has already verified their credentials.
4Adaptability or versatility
If mobility operators invest in multiple facilities to validate identification and process payments, then they can support diverse services, but investment costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The arbiter provides a universal authorization service that supports multiple mobility services through a single system. This eliminates the need for each mobility operator to invest in separate validation facilities, as the arbiter's multi-functional capabilities cover identification validation, payment verification, and authorization for various service types.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method is provided for authorizing utilization of a mobility service by a user. The method includes establishing a mobility database with an arbiter, wherein the database is associated with the user and includes biographic data, payment data and identification data, and wherein the identification data represents a legal form of identification issued to the user and the payment data represents a form of payment; validating the form of payment and the legal form of identification; requesting, by the user, utilization of the mobility service from a mobility operator; authenticating, by the user, to the mobility operator; requesting authorization to use the mobility service; and providing an authorization if: (a) the payment data represents sufficient funds to pay for the mobility service, and (b) the identification data represents a legal form of identification required for the mobility service.