Secure Cloud Document Registration System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for verifying and sharing electronic documents, especially across social media networks and telecommunications networks, are inefficient and prone to tampering, leading to issues with document integrity and accessibility, particularly in legal and emergency situations.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for secure automated document registration using cloud technology, which transforms electronic documents from social media and telecommunications networks into secure, tamper-proof formats with timestamp verification, allowing secure sharing and storage across networks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If documents are shared via email or fax, then document transmission is simple and quick, but document integrity cannot be guaranteed and timestamps can be tampered with

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedocument transmission speedVSAvoiddocument integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a trusted third-party timestamping authority as an intermediary between document creator and recipient. This authority issues cryptographic timestamp tokens that verify document existence at a specific time without revealing document contents, thereby guaranteeing document integrity while maintaining transmission efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary hashing of document contents and obtains cryptographic timestamp tokens before document sharing. This preliminary action creates an immutable reference to the document state, allowing later verification of document integrity without affecting the speed of document transmission

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If social media networks are used for document sharing, then accessibility and ease of sharing are improved, but document security and retrieval reliability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedocument sharing easeVSAvoiddocument retrieval reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates cryptographic copies (hashes) of document contents that are stored independently of the original social media posts. These cryptographic copies serve as permanent, tamper-proof records that can be retrieved even if the original social media content is deleted or modified, thereby maintaining ease of sharing while ensuring retrieval reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Measurement precision

If detailed documentation of document versions is maintained, then document accuracy and traceability are improved, but system complexity and administrative burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedocument version accuracyVSAvoidversion tracking complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual version tracking mechanisms with automated cryptographic hashing. Each document version generates a unique hash that is timestamped and stored, creating an immutable audit trail. This substitution eliminates complex administrative procedures while maintaining precise version accuracy through mathematical guarantees

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS8914351B2Method and system for secure automated document registration from social media networks
Publication Date: 2014.12.16 KRISLOV CLINTON A
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AI summary

A method and system for secure automated document registration with social media. A secure cloud transformed electronic document is created on an application on a target network device from an original electronic document. The original electronic document is electronic text, audio, video or pictures from a social media network or from a telecommunications network. The secure cloud transformed electronic document is made viewable via the target network device and other target devices from anywhere on a cloud communications network or on a social media network without the ability to tamper with the information within the secure cloud transformed electronic document. This provides an automatic secure electronic document registration system on the cloud communications network and the social media network.