Secure Scannable Code System for Identity Bridging
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need to securely bridge the gap between a user's network-based identity and their real-world presence, particularly in physical locations associated with network-based services, ensuring secure identification and access to user profile information while maintaining privacy and security.
Innovation Solution
A system generates and uses secure scannable codes that can be presented in physical locations, allowing users to access their network-based profile information through optical or wireless scanning, with features like expiration criteria and dynamic code renewal to ensure security and timely validity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If user profile information is made accessible in physical locations, then ease of operation is improved, but security and privacy are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
A scannable code serves as an intermediary between the user's network-based identity and their profile information. The code can be scanned at physical locations to securely retrieve and display user profile information without directly exposing the underlying data storage mechanisms, thus maintaining security while enabling access.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of accessing the original user profile information directly from the network-based system, a scannable code creates a secure copy or representation that can be displayed and scanned at physical locations. This copying mechanism allows information access while maintaining the security of the original data storage.
2Reliability
If scannable codes are made secure with validation mechanisms, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The scannable code system performs self-validation through embedded expiration criteria and validation logic. The code automatically validates itself against the server without requiring complex external verification systems, reducing overall device complexity while maintaining security through automated self-service validation mechanisms.
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AI summary
Features are disclosed for recognizing network-based user in a physical location. A system is provided for generating and detecting a scannable code. A time-sensitive scannable code unique to the user may be generated and presented by an electronic device such as a smartphone. The time-sensitive scannable code may be scanned at transaction terminal in the physical store. Using the scannable code, the system may securely determine that user profile information from the user's network-based activity may be provided to the transaction terminal for use in the physical location.