Near-Field Communication Verification for Social Network Authenticity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Social network service (SNS) communities face issues such as unintended openness, ghost users, and difficulty in maintaining community order due to users with bad intentions joining, which existing technologies fail to effectively address.
Innovation Solution
An information management system utilizing near-field communication data to verify user interactions, registering users as community members only if they have met in person, been to a specific location, or attended an event, thereby ensuring authenticity and community integrity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If an SNS community is made open to allow random users to join, then the community size increases, but the community order deteriorates and ghost users increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by requiring users to complete near-field communication verification with existing members before they can join the community. This pre-verification process ensures that only authenticated users enter the community, preventing ghost users and maintaining order while allowing growth.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses near-field communication as an intermediary verification mechanism between existing members and new users. This intermediary process authenticates new users through physical proximity verification, resolving the contradiction between open access and community integrity.
2Reliability
If user registration is restricted to maintain community quality, then community order is maintained, but the ease of joining deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by enabling existing community members to perform verification of new users through near-field communication on their own devices. This decentralized verification process maintains quality control without requiring complex centralized approval procedures, thus preserving ease of joining while ensuring community quality.
3Reliability
If near-field communication verification is implemented, then ghost users are reduced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical or administrative verification systems with near-field communication technology. This substitution uses electromagnetic fields for automatic authentication, reducing the need for manual verification processes and administrative overhead, thus maintaining user authenticity without significantly increasing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
An information management apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive, from a plurality of communication processing apparatuses, a plurality of pieces of communication history data of near-field communication performed in the plurality of communication processing apparatuses; a data comparison unit configured to perform comparison of the plurality of pieces of communication history data received by the communication unit; and a data registration unit configured to register a plurality of pieces of user information associated with the plurality of communication processing apparatuses as a group in a database on condition that it is verified by the data comparison unit, in accordance with the plurality of pieces of communication history data of the near-field communication, that near-field communication has been performed between the plurality of communication processing apparatuses.