Posthumous Data Access System with Video Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data management systems fail to securely and confidentially share personalized information with intended recipients after a person's death, as they often require others to be aware of the stored information, leading to premature access and data leakage risks.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to upload confidential data and designate recipients, with identity verification through video conference and physical confirmation, ensuring data is only accessible after the user's demise, using cryptographically encrypted data and secure link transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If confidential data is stored on an online platform and recipients are informed of the account existence, then data can be transmitted after death, but recipients may try to access data while the person is alive leading to data leakage
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing confidential data and setting up transmission protocols in advance, but delays actual data transmission until the triggering event (death verification) occurs. The recipient identification and data encryption are prepared beforehand, but the decryption and data release are postponed until the verification of death is confirmed, preventing premature access while ensuring reliable posthumous transmission.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a notebook or diary is used to store confidential information, then data can be kept private, but the notebook can go into wrong hands or be accessed by others even while the person is alive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary verification system that acts as a mediator between the stored confidential data and the recipients. This intermediary layer includes death verification mechanisms (physical verification, institutional verification) and identity confirmation systems that stand between the data and potential recipients, ensuring that data is only released to authorized recipients after confirmed death, thus preventing both premature access and unauthorized access while maintaining reliable transmission.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If identity verification through video conference is implemented, then only designated recipients can access data, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The verification system is segmented into multiple independent modules: video conference identity verification, physical death verification, institutional verification, and data transmission control. Each module operates independently and contributes to the overall verification process. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high security through multiple verification layers while managing complexity by dividing the verification function into manageable, modular components that can be implemented and maintained separately.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and system for providing personalized and confidential data management and sharing services to the subscriber are disclosed. The method includes enabling an individual to register with a personalized and confidential data management and sharing system to become a subscriber. The subscriber may enter personalized and confidential data and designate recipients to receive personalized and confidential data and upload photographs of the recipients. The method includes determining the existence of the subscriber by tracking the visiting/login history of the subscriber at regular intervals, transmitting communication messages to the personalized digital account of the subscriber upon identifying the subscriber not logging in to the subscriber account and establishing a voice call with the contact number of the subscriber and/or the affiliates to confirm the demise/existence of the subscriber. The method includes confirming the demise of the subscriber and transmitting a link and password and confirming the identity of the designated recipients through video conference to view or download the data.