Mutable Access Tokens for In-Place Claim Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems require the replacement of access tokens when token claims change, leading to additional time, bandwidth, and computing capacity demands, causing delays and potential device overload during new token acquisition.
Innovation Solution
Implementing mutable access tokens that allow tokens to be updated instead of replaced, enabling seamless continuation of API calls while ensuring the system notifies users to obtain updated tokens later, thus reducing the need for new token generation and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If access tokens are replaced when token claims change, then security is maintained, but additional time, bandwidth, and computing capacity are required causing delays and device overload
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements mutable access tokens that can be dynamically updated in place rather than replaced. The token structure includes fields that can be modified (such as claims, permissions, and metadata) while maintaining the same token identifier. This dynamic update mechanism eliminates the need for token replacement cycles, allowing security credentials to adapt to changing conditions without interrupting the authentication flow or causing delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing the mutable token structure with update capabilities built in from the beginning. Instead of creating a new token when changes are needed, the system has already prepared the token with modifiable fields and update protocols, allowing immediate updates without the overhead of generation, transmission, and validation of a completely new token.
2Adaptability or versatility
If new tokens are generated and communicated, then updated access is provided, but bandwidth and computing capacity are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary changes from the token update process. Instead of generating and transmitting a complete new token, the system identifies and updates only the specific fields that need modification (such as claims or permissions). This extraction approach minimizes data transmission bandwidth and reduces the computing capacity required for token generation and validation, while still providing the necessary adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements parameter changes by modifying specific fields within the existing token structure rather than changing the entire token. The patent allows selective updating of token parameters such as claims, permissions, and metadata while maintaining the core token structure and identifier. This approach significantly reduces the bandwidth required for communication and the computing capacity needed for token processing, while maintaining full adaptability.
3Reliability
If devices wait for new token acquisition, then security is maintained, but user devices and partner devices become overloaded and may seize
Solution Approach 1:
The mutable token system allows security validation to occur dynamically during the update process rather than requiring a complete token replacement cycle. Devices can continue operating with the existing token while updates are applied incrementally, preventing the performance degradation and potential seizure that occurs when devices must wait for complete token re-acquisition.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent ensures continuity of useful action by allowing devices to maintain their operational state while token updates are applied. Instead of interrupting device operations to perform complete token re-acquisition, the system enables continuous operation with incremental token updates, preventing device overload and maintaining productivity while security validation continues.
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AI summary
A network system to provide mutable access tokens for access requests that eliminate a need for token replacement. The system allows an access token to be changed to update data in the token. When data stored with the token changes, such as when a user or partner has a change in status, a new token is not required to be requested, generated, dispersed, or stored. Conventional systems refuse the API call request and require the new token be provided. The described system instead completes the request while simultaneously notifying the user to subsequently retrieve an updated access token. Requesting, generating, communicating, and presenting a new token requires additional time, bandwidth, computing capacity, and system interactions. While performing new token acquisition in conventional systems, devices are forced to perform additional interactions, which may result in a time delay or in one or more devices exceeding capacity, becoming overloaded, and seizing.