Secure Video Streaming Channel Interface with Environmental Baseline

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Solution Overview

Problem

Network connections are susceptible to attacks, leading to the unauthorized publication of private and sensitive information, making it difficult for users to securely communicate, especially in urgent situations.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for generating a secure communication channel interface for video streaming of sensitive content, which involves a computing device transmitting a configuration packet to a user client device, establishing a security baseline parameter using an audiovisual capture device, detecting changes in the baseline parameter, and executing mitigation actions to prevent security breaches.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a secure communication channel is established with multiple security checks, then security reliability is improved, but communication speed and responsiveness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity reliabilityVSAvoidcommunication speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs security baseline establishment and environmental landmark capture before the actual communication begins. Configuration packets are exchanged and authenticated in advance, so that when communication starts, the security framework is already in place, reducing real-time security verification overhead.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors security parameters during communication and compares them against established baselines. When deviations are detected, the system automatically triggers mitigation actions. This closed-loop feedback mechanism maintains security without requiring constant manual intervention or overly frequent security checks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If security baseline parameters are continuously monitored, then detection precision is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity detection precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses the client device's existing audiovisual capture devices (camera, microphone) to perform security environmental assessments. The client device itself provides the sensing capabilities needed for security monitoring, eliminating the need for separate dedicated sensing hardware and reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces environmental landmarks as intermediary reference points for security verification. Instead of directly monitoring complex security parameters, the system tracks changes in recognizable environmental features (landmarks), which serve as simplified proxies for security state detection, reducing monitoring complexity while maintaining detection precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If configuration packets with unique device identifiers are exchanged, then security reliability is improved, but loss of information increases due to potential packet interception

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice authentication reliabilityVSAvoidconfiguration packet integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system acknowledges that network packets can be intercepted but transforms this vulnerability into an opportunity. Environmental landmarks serve as uncopyable contextual information that cannot be transmitted or intercepted through normal network channels. This contextual binding ensures that even if configuration packets are intercepted, the authentication remains secure because the environmental context cannot be replicated.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Data Source

PatentUS11968189B2Methods and systems for generating a secure communication channel interface for video streaming of sensitive content
Publication Date: 2024.04.23 KPN INNOVATIONS LLC
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AI summary

A system for generating a secure communication channel interface, the system including a computing device configured to transmit, to a user client device, a configuration packet uniquely identifying the computing device, receive, from the user client device, a confirmation authentication for the configuration packet, initiate a secure communication channel interface with the user client device, establish a security baseline parameter within the secure communication channel interface, wherein establishing a security baseline parameter includes capturing a baseline audiovisual measurement using an audiovisual capture device, detect a change in the security baseline parameter by detecting a change in relation to a baseline user environment landmark, and execute a mitigation action to prevent a security breach.