Online Software Platform Resource Watermarking for Low-Overhead Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital watermarking techniques are inefficient and resource-intensive, leading to increased processing, storage, and data transmission requirements, and are not effectively utilized to authenticate data authenticity and prevent unauthorized use.
Innovation Solution
An online software platform (OSP) applies nearly invisible digital watermarks to resources it produces, enabling efficient authentication and detection of exact copies, thereby reducing resource consumption and enhancing data security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional digital watermarking techniques are used to authenticate data, then data security is improved, but processing resources, storage requirements, and data transmission resources increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of watermark embedding by using minimal, subtle modifications to data values rather than traditional watermarking methods. This allows authentication while consuming fewer processing resources and maintaining data usability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial action by embedding watermarks in only specific portions of data or using minimal watermark强度, sufficient for authentication purposes without requiring full-resource traditional watermarking techniques.
2Measurement precision
If traditional digital watermarking techniques are applied to produced resources, then data authenticity detection is improved, but storage and data transmission resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent modifies the data parameters minimally to embed authentication information, avoiding the need for separate watermark files or increased storage capacity while maintaining detection accuracy.
3Reliability
If digital watermarking is applied to protect against unauthorized use, then data security is improved, but the complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The watermarking system is integrated into the existing data processing pipeline, allowing the same system that produces data to also embed and verify watermarks without requiring separate complex authentication infrastructure.
4Loss of information
If traditional watermarking methods are used, then data provenance tracking is improved, but processing speed decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The watermark is embedded in the data at the point of generation, before any subsequent processing or transmission occurs. This preliminary action ensures provenance tracking is built-in without requiring later authentication processing steps.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods electronically uniquely imprint a digital watermark on produced resources, such as on data or electronic documents produced by an online software platform (OSP), in nearly invisible ways that are likely to survive subsequent processing. In one embodiment the OSP stores a plurality of resource digital rules used for producing resources for respective relationship instances of primary entities with other entities; receives a dataset on behalf of a primary entity, in which the dataset includes data representing a relationship instance between the primary entity and a secondary entity; in response to the received dataset, produces a resource based on applying one or more of the plurality of resource digital rules to the dataset; and digitally watermarks the produced resource with a digital watermark such that the produced resource is identifiable via the digital watermark as having been produced by the OSP.