Print Service Management Apparatus Fraud Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current print service management systems lack effective mechanisms to prevent fraudulent use, as they do not adequately verify the legitimacy of file registrations, leading to potential misuse of print services.

Innovation Solution

A print service management apparatus that includes a file receiving unit, a management unit, and a registration control unit, which analyzes files for fraudulent use keywords and imposes a higher load on the registration process if suspicious activity is detected, thereby discouraging malicious users by requiring additional and burdensome input from users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If normal file registration process is used, then ease of operation is maintained, but reliability against fraudulent use deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprevention of fraudulent useVSAvoidfile registration operation

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically changes the registration process parameters based on file content analysis. When fraudulent keywords are detected, the system transforms the normal registration process into a high-load process requiring multiple verification steps, thereby preventing fraudulent use while maintaining normal operation for legitimate files

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary verification process between file submission and registration completion. This intermediary step analyzes file content for fraudulent keywords and conditionally applies additional verification requirements, serving as a mediator that protects against fraud without affecting legitimate registrations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If file registration is monitored for fraudulent content, then reliability improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedetection of fraudulent useVSAvoidregistration control mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of file content for fraudulent keywords before completing the registration process. This preliminary action identifies suspicious files early, allowing the system to apply additional verification only when necessary, thereby improving detection capability without proportionally increasing overall system complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10983736B2Print service management apparatus, print service system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for addressing possibility of fraudulent use of print service

Publication Date: 2021.04.20 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

A print service management apparatus includes: a file receiving unit that receives a file to be registered sent from an information processing device; a management unit that registers the file received by the file receiving unit in a memory unit and manages the file; and a registration control unit that, when there is a possibility of fraudulent use of print service using the file received by the file receiving unit, controls registration so that a higher load than normal is imposed on a file registration operation by a user of the information processing device.