Proxy Identity Depot Service for Digital Privacy Protection
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to effectively compartmentalize digital activities and protect primary identities from identity theft and unsolicited targeted marketing by not providing a robust mechanism for creating, managing, and transferring proxy identities with associated attributes and reputation across different digital platforms.
Innovation Solution
A proxy identity depot service with a management system, reputation scoring, and marketplace functionality allows users to create, manage, and transfer proxy identities, enabling secure and private digital activities by hosting communication channels for proxy identity-enabled applications, including email, messaging, payments, and shipping services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple proxy identities are created for different digital activities, then user privacy and identity protection are improved, but system complexity and management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments digital identity management by creating multiple proxy identities, each dedicated to specific digital activities or services. Each proxy identity contains segmented attributes (name, email, phone, address) that can be independently configured, allowing users to compartmentalize their digital presence across different platforms without exposing their primary identity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized identity management system that acts as an intermediary between users and multiple digital platforms. This system mediates identity operations by automatically provisioning, managing, and transferring proxy identities, thereby reducing the complexity burden on users while maintaining robust identity protection across multiple services.
2Adaptability or versatility
If proxy identities are transferred between users, then identity liquidity and flexibility are improved, but tracking and security management become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The identity management system implements feedback mechanisms that automatically track and record all proxy identity transfers, creations, and modifications. This feedback loop maintains a comprehensive audit trail that enables system administrators to monitor identity liquidity while ensuring security compliance, thereby supporting flexible identity transfer without compromising tracking capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive identity attributes are stored for each proxy identity, then identity functionality and versatility are improved, but data storage requirements and security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
Identity attributes are segmented into modular components (personal information, contact details, authentication credentials, profile data) that can be selectively stored and configured for each proxy identity. This segmentation allows the system to store only the necessary attributes for each specific proxy identity's purpose, reducing overall data storage requirements while maintaining full functionality where needed.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to host a proxy identity depot service application program interface to provide communication channels for proxy identity enabled applications operative on client devices. A proxy identity depot has a proxy identity management service, a proxy identity reputation service and a proxy identity transfer service. The proxy identity depot includes proxy identities for a real user, where each proxy identity has its own identity attributes to protect primary identity attributes of the real user and thereby each proxy identity is operative as a personal privacy proxy.