Physical-Address-Linked Electronic Accounts for Secure Targeted Messaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic mail systems face issues with frequent address changes, spam, security vulnerabilities, and inefficiencies in communication, particularly in delivering targeted messages to physical locations without knowing the recipient's email address.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates unique electronic communications accounts linked to physical addresses using geolocation, incorporating verification processes to prevent fraud and enable secure, targeted messaging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional email addresses are used for communication, then users can send and receive messages, but users face frequent address changes, spam, and security vulnerabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the email address into two independent components: a stable location-based identifier (derived from physical address or coordinates) and a dynamic user identifier. This segmentation allows the location component to remain constant while the user component can change, resolving the contradiction between stability and security by isolating the harmful elements from the stable identifier.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary verification system that acts as a mediator between the user and the email address. This intermediary verifies user identity and controls email address assignment, preventing spam and security vulnerabilities while maintaining reliable, stable email addresses for verified users. The intermediary layer filters harmful factors without affecting the stability of the underlying address system.
2Adaptability or versatility
If email addresses are decoupled from physical locations, then users have flexibility in address changes, but systems cannot deliver targeted messages to physical locations
Solution Approach 1:
The system adds a spatial dimension to email addressing by incorporating physical location data (address or coordinates) as a fundamental component of the email identifier. This dimensional addition enables targeted messaging to physical locations while maintaining user flexibility through the separation of location and user identity components, allowing either to change independently.
3Reliability
If verification processes are implemented to prevent fraud, then security is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The verification system utilizes self-service mechanisms where users automatically verify their identity through existing infrastructure (phone number verification, address confirmation services). This self-service approach provides robust fraud prevention without requiring complex manual verification processes, reducing system complexity while maintaining high security standards.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient, secure, and transparent global communication by linking email addresses to physical locations, reducing spam, and improving delivery efficiency, while allowing targeted messaging and package tracking.
Implementation Method 1
triangulating a location based on the received data from the plurality of transmitters
Data Source
AI summary
A unique electronic communications account is generated and linked to a physical address of a user. A network of electronic mail addresses linked to physical addresses can be used for the transmission of information in electronic or physical form. Users can send information to a single recipient or multiple recipients by selecting the recipient or an area of recipients on a map generated by the system. A plurality of users can use a single e-mail address linked to a physical address through creation and storage of user profiles. Users can deactivate and transfer their unique electronic mail address upon relocation to a new physical address. The communication platform can overcome technical problems and limitations of electronic mail existing today. The communication platform can create a transparent global communication that can be achieved via an electronic communications account that can be created for every physical address in the world.