Multi-Dimensional User Verification for Dynamic Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing binary user verification systems lack flexibility and differentiation based on user types and actions, leading to potential security misuses and the need for constant manual input of credentials.
Innovation Solution
Implement multi-dimensional user verification that uses a set of input factors, actions, and validation mechanisms to dynamically control access levels based on user identity, device proximity, time, and conditions, allowing continuous validation without constant manual input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If binary user verification systems are used, then the system is simple to operate, but the system lacks flexibility and differentiation based on user types and actions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments user verification into multiple independent factors (user identity, device proximity, time, conditions) rather than treating it as a single binary check. Each factor can be evaluated separately and combined to create differentiated access levels for different user types and actions, providing flexibility without requiring complete system redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts verification requirements based on real-time evaluation of multiple factors. Instead of a static binary verification, the system continuously assesses user identity, device proximity, time, and conditions to determine appropriate access levels, allowing the verification process to adapt flexibly to different scenarios while maintaining manageable complexity through modular factor evaluation.
2Reliability
If multi-dimensional user verification is implemented, then security is enhanced with varying degrees of access control, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The verification system is divided into independent evaluable factors (user identity, device proximity, time, conditions) that can be assessed separately. This segmentation allows security to be enhanced through multiple layers of verification while keeping each individual factor relatively simple to implement and manage, reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal verification framework that can handle multiple verification factors and access levels through a single unified system. This multi-functional approach enhances security by evaluating various factors simultaneously while avoiding the need for separate verification systems for each factor, thereby managing complexity through consolidation rather than proliferation of separate mechanisms.
3Reliability
If continuous validation is performed, then unauthorized access is prevented, but the need for manual input is reduced only if conditions are met
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs continuous validation automatically by evaluating multiple factors (user identity, device proximity, time, conditions) without requiring constant manual user input. The verification process serves itself by continuously monitoring and assessing the established factors, preventing unauthorized access while reducing manual burden through automated condition checking and dynamic access control decisions.
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AI summary
Described herein are systems and techniques for multi-dimensional user verification for an action request at a computing device. The user verification techniques include receiving a request for action at the device, determining, based on the type of request for action, a set of input factors to enable verification for the request to be performed. The status of the input factors may be determined or scored and used to evaluate a validity of the request and verification to perform the request. The techniques also describe carrying out the request or denying the request based on the validity of the input factors and evaluating manual validation techniques available to override the verification.