Multi-Encrypted Email Platform Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current email systems require multiple threads to be sent for different recipients to access varying levels of information, leading to increased memory usage, processing bandwidth, and network bottlenecks.

Innovation Solution

A cognitive multi-encrypted email platform generates a single email message with varied encryption levels using unique symmetric keys for different recipients, allowing the email server to determine and encrypt portions of the message accordingly, reducing the number of emails sent and improving network efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple email threads are sent to different recipients to control information access, then information security is improved, but memory usage and processing bandwidth increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation securityVSAvoidmemory usage
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The email message is segmented into multiple portions, each encrypted with a different symmetric key corresponding to different recipient classes. This allows the single email to contain differentiated information access control without requiring multiple separate email threads, thereby maintaining information security while reducing memory usage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different portions of the email message have different encryption qualities applied to them. Each portion is encrypted with a specific symmetric key that corresponds to the security requirements of that particular content segment, allowing localized security control within a single email thread.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If multiple email threads are sent to different recipients to control information access, then information security is improved, but processing bandwidth increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation securityVSAvoidprocessing bandwidth
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The email message is segmented into multiple portions, each encrypted with a different symmetric key corresponding to different recipient classes. This allows the single email to contain differentiated information access control without requiring multiple separate email threads, thereby maintaining information security while reducing processing bandwidth consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple encrypted portions that would traditionally require separate email threads are merged into a single email message. The email server processes this single combined email and distributes appropriate portions to different recipients, reducing the overall processing bandwidth required compared to handling multiple separate email threads.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Reliability

If multiple email threads are sent to different recipients to control information access, then information security is improved, but network load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation securityVSAvoidnetwork efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The email message is segmented into multiple portions, each encrypted with a different symmetric key corresponding to different recipient classes. This allows the single email to contain differentiated information access control without requiring multiple separate email threads, thereby maintaining information security while reducing network load and improving network efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple encrypted portions that would traditionally require separate email threads are merged into a single email message. The email server processes this single combined email and distributes appropriate portions to different recipients, reducing the overall network load and improving network efficiency compared to handling multiple separate email threads.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Productivity

If a single email is sent to multiple recipients, then network efficiency is improved, but information security deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenetwork efficiencyVSAvoidinformation security
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The email message is segmented into multiple portions, each encrypted with a different symmetric key corresponding to different recipient classes. This allows the single email to contain differentiated information access control, maintaining information security while improving network efficiency through reduced email thread multiplication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different portions of the email message have different encryption qualities applied to them. Each portion is encrypted with a specific symmetric key that corresponds to the security requirements of that particular content segment, allowing localized security control within a single email thread sent to multiple recipients.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11757846B2Cognitive multi-encrypted mail platform
Publication Date: 2023.09.12 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

An apparatus configured to construct an email message addressed to a plurality of recipients. The apparatus is further configured to apply a cipher and a first encryption key to a first portion of the email message, which will be viewable by each of the recipients. The apparatus applies the cipher and a second encryption key to a second portion of the email message, which will be viewable by a first recipient from among the recipients. The apparatus further applies the cipher and a third encryption key to a third portion of the mail message, which will be viewable by a second recipient from among the recipients. The apparatus then transmits the email message to a server.