One-Step Payment Authorization with Risk Assessment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face cumbersome and inefficient online payment processes, requiring repeated entry of payment information and lacking seamless transaction risk assessment, which hinders quick and secure payment processing.

Innovation Solution

A payment information processing method that establishes a one-step payment authorization relationship between a user's payment account and a target organization, assessing transaction risks to determine if a one-step payment can be made, and if not, performing identity verification to ensure secure transactions, thereby simplifying the payment process while ensuring security.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional online payment process is used, then payment security can be maintained through repeated verification, but user operation becomes cumbersome and payment efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepayment securityVSAvoiduser operation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary risk assessment and establishes payment authorization relationships before the actual payment occurs. By pre-evaluating transaction risks and pre-authorizing payment accounts, the system eliminates the need for repeated verification during each payment, thereby improving user operation ease while maintaining security through advance precautions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the payment verification process based on real-time risk assessment results. For low-risk transactions, it applies streamlined one-step authorization; for high-risk transactions, it maintains stricter verification. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the security level proportional to the actual risk rather than applying uniform verification to all transactions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If traditional online payment process is used, then payment security can be ensured through multiple verification steps, but payment efficiency and processing speed decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepayment securityVSAvoidpayment efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs risk assessment and authorization establishment in advance, before the actual payment transaction. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare verification decisions beforehand, so that during the actual payment process, only minimal confirmation is needed, thereby significantly improving payment efficiency without compromising security

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The payment processing is segmented into distinct phases: risk assessment phase, authorization establishment phase, and execution phase. By separating the complex security verification (risk assessment and authorization) from the simple payment execution, the system can maintain high security standards in the assessment phase while achieving high efficiency in the execution phase

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If one-step payment authorization is implemented, then payment efficiency improves and user operation simplifies, but transaction risk assessment capability must be enhanced to maintain security

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepayment efficiencyVSAvoidrisk assessment system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces a third-party payment service organization as an intermediary that specializes in risk assessment. This intermediary handles the complex analysis of account status information, transaction patterns, and risk factors, allowing the target organization to implement simple one-step authorization while the intermediary maintains sophisticated risk assessment capabilities in the background

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Reliability

If repeated payment verification is required, then payment security is maintained, but data processing amount and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepayment securityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs verification-related work in advance by establishing payment authorization relationships and assessing risks before transactions occur. This preliminary verification eliminates the need for repeated checks during each payment, reducing processing time while maintaining security through the pre-established authorization framework

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20240193605A1Payment information processing method, apparatus, and device, and medium
Publication Date: 2024.06.13 ALIPAY COM CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of this specification disclose a payment information processing method, apparatus, and device, and a medium. The solution can include: obtaining a payment request that is sent by a target organization and that is generated based on a payment operation performed by a user, where the payment request includes identification information of an authorized payment account; determining account status information of the authorized payment account; determining, based on the account status information, whether a transaction corresponding to the payment request is at a transaction risk, to obtain a first determining result; and if the first determining result indicates that the transaction is not at a transaction risk, performing a first payment procedure; or if the first determining result indicates that the transaction is at a transaction risk, performing a second payment procedure including a first identity verification process.