Secure Virtual Meeting Vault for Privacy Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
In virtual reality shared worlds like the metaverse, existing technologies fail to ensure user privacy and security, as infrastructure providers can eavesdrop on conversations and track user movements, leading to potential exploitation and customer dissatisfaction.
Innovation Solution
Creating a secure virtual meeting vault on a secured container computing environment separate from the shared virtual world, allowing users to teleport their avatars for private interactions, which runs on a trusted execution environment, preventing eavesdropping and ensuring immutable recording of agreements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users interact in a shared virtual world, then social interaction and collaboration are enabled, but user privacy and security are compromised due to eavesdropping and tracking
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the virtual world into two distinct environments: a shared virtual world for public interaction and a secure virtual meeting vault for private interactions. This segmentation allows users to choose the appropriate environment based on their privacy needs, enabling both social interaction and privacy protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the secure meeting functionality from the shared virtual world by creating a separate secure container computing environment. This extracted secure environment runs independently with its own computing resources, preventing the shared world infrastructure from accessing or eavesdropping on private conversations.
2Reliability
If a secure container computing environment is used, then user privacy and security are protected, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The secure container computing environment is designed to be multi-functional, serving both as a secure meeting space and as a verifiable destruction mechanism. The same secure container infrastructure that protects privacy during meetings also provides the verification mechanism for proving data destruction, reducing the need for separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The secure container acts as an intermediary between the shared virtual world and the users' private data. It mediates by providing a trusted execution environment that neither the shared world infrastructure nor external parties can access, while still allowing controlled interaction with user avatars and data.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the secure virtual meeting vault is verifiably destroyed, then data leakage risk is eliminated, but loss of meeting records occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different quality characteristics to different data elements. Sensitive conversational data is completely destroyed after the meeting to prevent leakage, while non-sensitive metadata (such as participant lists, timestamps, and agreement summaries) is preserved for record-keeping purposes. This local quality differentiation allows simultaneous achievement of security and information retention.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving, from a first user device associated with a first user in a shared virtual world, a request to create a secure virtual meeting vault. In response to receiving the request, the secure virtual meeting vault is created. The secure virtual meeting vault runs on a secured container computing environment that is separate from the shared virtual world. The method further includes teleporting an avatar representing a first user in the shared virtual world to the secure virtual meeting vault. In response to a determination that an event within the secure virtual meeting vault has concluded, the secure virtual meeting vault is verifiably destroyed. A computer program product, according to another embodiment, includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are readable and/or executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform the foregoing method.