Multiple Identity Recognition in Communication Systems

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users with multiple electronic identities face challenges in communicating effectively, as recipients may confuse separate identities with those belonging to the same entity, leading to confusion about the sender's true identity.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that determine if a sender has multiple identities and associate them together, providing the recipient with information indicating the sender's additional identities, allowing for recognition of a single entity across multiple communication channels.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a user sends communications using multiple separate identities, then the user can maintain multiple distinct communication channels, but the recipient becomes confused about whether the identities belong to the same entity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemultiple communication channelsVSAvoidsender identity clarity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (identity association system) that mediates between the sender's multiple identities and the recipient's understanding. The system automatically associates multiple identities with a single entity and provides this association information to the recipient, thereby maintaining communication versatility while preventing identity confusion.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by providing the recipient with information about the sender's additional identities. This feedback loop allows the recipient to understand the relationship between multiple identities, transforming the confusion that would otherwise occur into clear understanding while preserving the ability to use multiple communication channels.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If the system provides information about all sender identities to the recipient, then identity clarity is improved, but the complexity of the communication system increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesender identity clarityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-establishing associations between multiple identities and their corresponding entities before communications occur. This pre-computed identity association information is then readily available when needed, avoiding the need for complex real-time analysis and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining identity clarity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS8745271B2Recognizing multiple identities of sender and sending the multiple identities to recipient

Publication Date: 2014.06.03 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

A method, device and computer program product for multiple identity recognition includes receiving a first communication from a sender addressed to a recipient using a first identity. A determination may be made as to whether the sender has multiple identities, and in response to determining that the sender has multiple identities, information regarding the identities of the sender is retrieved. The identities of the sender may be associated together so that the recipient may be provided an indication that the sender has at least one identity other than the first identity.