Centralized Network Authentication Token Manager
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless mobile communication devices enhance security risks when accessing enterprise network services due to their public accessibility and susceptibility to loss or theft, and users face burdensome security protocols, while older network applications lack adequate security, leading to abandonment.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a network authentication system that requires three types of authentication: user information, security information entered by the user, and device information, using a token manager to manage session tokens and verify user credentials through multiple databases, ensuring enhanced security for wireless mobile communication devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional authentication methods are used for network applications, then users can access applications, but security is inadequate and users must repeatedly provide security information
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication by obtaining device information, user information, and security information before actual application access. A session token is generated and stored in advance, allowing users to access multiple applications without repeatedly providing security credentials. This preliminary authentication action resolves the contradiction by establishing security upfront while enabling seamless subsequent access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a session token as an intermediary between the user and multiple network applications. The token manager system acts as a mediator that stores and validates authentication credentials centrally. This intermediary mechanism allows secure access to multiple applications without requiring users to repeatedly provide security information, thus improving both security and ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If wireless mobile communication devices are made publicly accessible, then user mobility and access convenience are improved, but security risks increase due to potential loss or theft
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication system segments security verification into multiple independent components: device information authentication, user information authentication, and security information authentication. Each component is verified separately through different databases (device database, user database, security database). This segmentation allows comprehensive security checks while maintaining convenient public accessibility, as the system can verify all security aspects remotely without restricting device usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback mechanisms by validating session tokens for each application access request and updating authentication status in real-time. If a device is reported lost or stolen, the system can immediately revoke access by invalidating the session token in the token database. This feedback loop maintains security while allowing public accessibility, as security status is continuously monitored and updated.
3Reliability
If multiple authentication types are required, then security is enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal authentication system that handles multiple authentication types (device information, user information, security information) through a single integrated token manager architecture. The same system components (token manager, databases, validation logic) serve all authentication purposes across multiple network applications. This multi-functionality approach enhances security through comprehensive authentication while avoiding system complexity multiplication, as one universal system replaces what would otherwise require multiple separate authentication mechanisms.
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AI summary
Network applications can provide network security without containing any security code or otherwise verifying the authenticity of each request that they receive for service. Instead, a single, centralized network authentication system can be placed between the network applications and all devices requesting for services from them. The authenticity of each request for service can then be verified by the centralized network authentication system before the request is passed to the network application to which it is directed. Responses from the network applications may also be channeled back to the systems that made the requests through the centralized network authentication system.