Permission Determination Using Repeated User Action Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user authentication methods for temporary access to restricted areas require preregistered information, compromising convenience while maintaining security.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that requests users to perform actions, obtains user information through observation, and determines permission based on real-time actions without preregistration, repeatedly requesting new actions until suitable conditions are met.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If preregistered information is used for authentication, then security is improved, but convenience for temporary users deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary registration of multiple possible actions (open gate, close gate, turn on light, etc.) and their corresponding observation conditions before authentication. When a user performs an action, the system checks whether the observed conditions match the preregistered action patterns, enabling temporary users to be authenticated without prior registration by matching their spontaneous actions against the pre-established action library.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication system observes and analyzes the user's natural actions and surrounding conditions automatically without requiring the user to provide preregistered information. The user simply performs an action (e.g., opening a gate), and the system autonomously determines authentication by comparing the observed action and conditions against preregistered patterns, making the process convenient for temporary users while maintaining security.
2Measurement precision
If multiple actions are requested and evaluated, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system preregisters multiple actions with their corresponding observation conditions and evaluation criteria before authentication. This allows the system to quickly evaluate multiple actions by comparing them against pre-established patterns rather than analyzing each action from scratch, reducing the time penalty associated with multi-action verification while maintaining high determination accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to the user about which actions have been successfully recognized and which are still needed for authentication. This feedback mechanism allows users to understand the authentication progress and complete remaining actions efficiently, reducing overall authentication time while maintaining the security benefit of multiple action verification.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a requester that requests a user to perform an action in response to the user seeking permission, an obtainer that obtains user information about the user in response to the user being requested to perform the action, a determiner that determines whether to provide the permission to the user based on the user information, and a controller that performs control to repeatedly cause, in response to the determiner determining that the permission is not to be provided to the user, the requester to request the user to perform a new action not previously requested by the requester, the obtainer to obtain new user information about the user, and the determiner to determine whether to provide the permission based on the new user information.