Persona-Based Digital Wallet for Decentralized Identity Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current decentralized identity management systems lack comprehensive privacy protection and manageability, as they rely on a single principal identity, are vulnerable to data correlation, and require multiple identities across different blockchains, leading to unmanageable wallet complexity.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a Persona-Based Decentralized Identity System that allows users to create multiple digital personas, each with its own decentralized identity and wallet, enabling compartmentalization of activities and interactions across different blockchains, thereby enhancing privacy and manageability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a single principal decentralized identity is used for all interactions, then the user maintains control of their identity, but the user's complete activity fingerprint is created enabling tracking and correlation across services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the single principal identity into multiple compartmentalized personas (e.g., personal, professional, shopping). Each persona has its own decentralized identifier (DID) and cryptographic key pair, allowing the user to interact with different services using different identity segments. This prevents services from correlating activities across different contexts while maintaining user control over each persona's identity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple decentralized identities are created on different blockchains for different service providers, then service-specific identity requirements are met, but the wallet complexity becomes unmanageable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple persona-managed identities into a single unified digital wallet application. The wallet provides a centralized interface that manages multiple compartmentalized personas, each with their own DIDs and credentials. This consolidation allows users to access and manage all their decentralized identities through one application rather than requiring separate wallets for each blockchain or service provider.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital wallet is designed as a universal application that can manage identities across multiple blockchains and service providers simultaneously. It provides multi-functional capabilities including creating personas, generating cryptographic key pairs, storing verifiable credentials, and interacting with different blockchain networks through a single interface, eliminating the need for service-specific wallet applications.
3Productivity
If personal data is provided for transaction purposes, then transactions can be completed, but identifiers are linked to the user enabling correlation and tracking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces verifiable credentials as an intermediary mechanism between the user's personal data and service providers. Instead of directly sharing personal identifiers, the user's persona presents cryptographically verified credentials (e.g., proof of age, proof of address) that attest to required attributes without disclosing the underlying personal data. Services verify these credentials through cryptographic proof, enabling transactions while preventing direct linkage to the user's real-world identity.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to maintain a digital wallet with digital identities. Each digital identity has identity attributes different than identity attributes associated with a real individual utilizing the digital identity, an associated attribute for compartmentalized network activity, a digital identity key pair, and a designated block chain. Interactions between the digital identities of the digital wallet and a digital identity services platform are supported.