Public Identifier Mapping for Secure Entity Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication systems require knowledge of a recipient's private identifier to initiate contact, limiting direct communication between entities when only public identifiers are available.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize publicly available identifiers to facilitate communication by mapping these identifiers to private identifiers within a communication network, allowing entities to communicate without prior knowledge of each other's private IDs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If communication systems require knowledge of recipient's private identifier to initiate contact, then communication security and privacy are maintained, but communication accessibility and ease of contact are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication network as an intermediary that maintains a mapping between public identifiers and private identifiers. This mediator enables indirect addressing where the transmitter only needs to know the public identifier, and the network handles the translation to the private identifier for actual message delivery, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of contact and privacy protection
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the identifier system into two distinct parts: public identifiers for external reference and communication initiation, and private identifiers for actual communication routing. This segmentation allows different identifiers to serve different purposes, enabling easy contact through public identifiers while maintaining privacy of private identifiers
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple public identifiers map to a single private identifier, then communication versatility and accessibility are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication network acts as a mediator that manages the many-to-one mapping between public and private identifiers. The network maintains the mapping relationships and handles the complexity of resolving multiple public identifiers to a single private identifier, allowing versatile communication without burdening the end users with system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates multiple public identifier copies that all map to the same private identifier. These public identifiers serve as different access points or aliases to the same underlying communication endpoint, enabling versatile communication through multiple channels while the network manages the mapping efficiently
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AI summary
Systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate communication in a communication network amongst entities by way of publicly-available identifiers. In an embodiment a first entity sends to a node in the communication network a first electronic communication which includes a public or private identifier for the first entity and a public identifier for a second entity which is a publicly-available identifier observable by the first entity and may include, for example, a vehicle identifier, a geographic locator, a venue identifier, a seating locator, a wearable identification device, and combinations thereof. The node determines a private identifier for the second entity based on the received public identifier for the second entity and sends a second electronic communication to the second entity which includes at least one of the public or private identifier for the first entity and at least one of the public or private identifier for the second entity.