Peer-to-Peer Mobile Contextual Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional authentication systems fail to provide secure, private, and real-time mutual verification of peer users and devices without relying on third-party host cooperation, lacking usability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, and do not account for the interactive potential of personal computing devices in contextual authentication.
Innovation Solution
A peer-to-peer authentication method using mobile devices for real-time, private, and mutual context verification through holistic computation of digital and physical factors, enabling users to independently authenticate each other without relying on centralized platforms, employing triangulation of location and proximity, and user-driven authentication processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional authentication systems use third-party host cooperation for verification, then authentication can be performed, but security and privacy are compromised and scalability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the authentication verification process from third-party host systems and relocates it to peer devices themselves. Each device performs local verification of authentication contexts without requiring external host cooperation, thereby improving security and privacy while reducing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Devices authenticate each other autonomously using their own computational resources and stored authentication contexts. The system enables self-service authentication where peer devices independently verify each other's identities and contexts without external intervention, enhancing both security and scalability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If peer-to-peer authentication is implemented without third-party host cooperation, then security and scalability improve, but authentication verification becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
Authentication contexts, including device identifiers, cryptographic keys, and verification parameters, are pre-established and stored in each device before authentication occurs. This preliminary setup enables devices to perform verification independently without real-time host cooperation, making verification easier while maintaining scalability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces standardized authentication context data structures and verification protocols as intermediaries that facilitate peer-to-peer verification. These standardized formats act as mediators that simplify the verification process between diverse devices, reducing complexity while enabling broad scalability.
3Ease of operation
If centralized authentication platforms are used, then verification can be performed, but user control and privacy are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication system is segmented into distributed components residing on individual peer devices rather than centralized on a platform server. Each device maintains its own authentication context locally, enabling simple peer-to-peer verification while preserving user privacy and control over personal information.
Data Source
AI summary
The system and method of the present disclosure is a contextual authentication system, comprising: an authentication server, which comprises a memory; and an authentication application, wherein said authentication application may be configured to be run on at least a primary personal computing device and one or more secondary personal computing devices. The devices are networked with each other and each other and the authentication server. The primary device may have a resource that may be shared with the secondary devices if the users of the secondary devices are able to properly provide a contextual authentication, as required by the primary device. If the secondary users cannot properly authenticate, then they are denied access. The server may make the determination.