Multi-zone AI Exchange for Secure Data Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional systems lack flexibility in maintaining strict control over data and algorithms while allowing other users to utilize them, leading to potential security exposures and loss of control.

Innovation Solution

A multi-zone security system is implemented, where data and algorithms are stored in a high-security repository, exchanged in a lower-security zone, and made available for use through a shared service with varying security levels, allowing owners to control access and usage while minimizing security risks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If data and algorithms are stored in a single centralized system with uniform security, then ease of operation is improved, but security and control are worsened because strict control cannot be maintained while allowing other users to utilize the data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of data accessVSAvoidsecurity control
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the data storage and access architecture into multiple zones with different security levels: a secure data repository for storage, a data exchange zone for controlled sharing, and a consumption zone for data usage. This segmentation allows different security policies to be applied to different functional areas, enabling both strict control and flexible access.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different security parameters and access controls are applied to different zones within the system. The data repository maintains high security with owner-only access, while the data exchange allows broader access with appropriate controls, and the consumption zone permits wide utilization. This local differentiation of security quality enables the system to simultaneously maintain strict control and allow user utilization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Productivity

If data is shared broadly to allow user utilization, then productivity is improved, but security is worsened due to potential security exposures

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata utilization efficiencyVSAvoidsecurity exposure risk
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The data exchange zone acts as an intermediary between the secure data repository and the consumption zone. It provides controlled access mechanisms that enable data utilization while maintaining security boundaries. The exchange zone mediates data transfers with authentication and authorization controls, allowing productivity gains from data sharing while mitigating security exposure risks through controlled interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Device complexity

If a single security configuration is applied uniformly, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability is worsened because the system cannot provide flexibility for different usage scenarios

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity configuration complexityVSAvoidsecurity flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The security configuration is made dynamic through the multi-zone architecture, where security parameters can be adjusted independently for each zone based on the required level of protection and access needs. The system can adapt security settings for different data types, users, and operations without requiring complete reconfiguration, enabling flexibility while managing complexity through modular security policies.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20240427922A1Multi-zone secure artificial intelligence exchange and hub
Publication Date: 2024.12.26 EQUINIX INC
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AI summary

In general, this disclosure describes a multi-zone secure AI exchange. The multi-zone secure AI exchange may be implemented in a multi-cloud, multi-data center environment, where each zone may be in a different cloud or data center. The multi-zone secure AI exchange may include a data repository, a data exchange, and shared services. The data repository may be configured to store algorithms and datasets, each having a respective owning user. The data exchange may receive datasets and algorithms from the data repository, and may perform the algorithms to produce output data. Each of the data repository, data exchange, and shared services may have a different level of security. The data repository may implement the highest level of security, allowing the owner user, and only the owning user, to control how their data and algorithms move in and out of the data repository, or are changed while in the data repository.