Self-Verifying Data Sets via Biometric Smartphone Authentication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current data collection methods in health and consumer product testing face challenges due to a weak linkage between data and the individual subject, leading to unreliable data and increased costs, as they rely on external monitors for validation, which can introduce errors and make dense sampling impractical.

Innovation Solution

The use of smartphone-enabled systems and methods that integrate biometric data, time stamps, and IP addresses to create self-verifying data sets, allowing for simultaneous data collection and compliance verification, eliminating the need for external monitors and reducing costs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If third-party monitors are used to confirm data collection and compliance, then data reliability is improved, but cost increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata reliabilityVSAvoidcost

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables subjects to self-verify their own compliance through smartphone-based biometric authentication and automated logging. The subject's own device captures and timestamps compliance data (e.g., photos of medication bottles, health metrics) with embedded biometric verification, eliminating the need for external monitors to confirm compliance while maintaining data reliability through cryptographic linking of subject identity to data points.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

A centralized server acts as an intermediary that receives, validates, and links data points from multiple subjects' smartphones. The server creates a trusted environment where biometric data, compliance evidence, and health metrics are cryptographically bound together with timestamps and subject identifiers, providing monitor-level verification without the ongoing cost of human monitors.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If third-party monitors are deployed for data collection and validation, then compliance verification is improved, but device complexity and operational burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance verificationVSAvoidoperational complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The smartphone application performs automated biometric authentication, compliance evidence capture, and data linking without requiring subject interaction with complex systems. The device automatically captures timestamps, locations, and biometric data, then securely transmits everything to the server in a single operation, simplifying the subject's task while ensuring compliance verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary biometric authentication and device validation before data collection begins. Subject identity is verified in advance through biometric matching, and the smartphone's capabilities (camera, sensors, location) are pre-configured to automatically capture compliance evidence, eliminating the need for complex real-time verification during data collection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If external monitors are used for data collection, then data source verification is improved, but time consumption and logistical burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata source verificationVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables continuous, automated data collection and verification without interruptions for manual review. Smartphones continuously capture compliance data with embedded timestamps and biometric verification, transmitting data asynchronously to the server. This eliminates the need for monitors to be physically present at each data collection event, saving time while maintaining continuous verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

Manual verification by human monitors is replaced with automated cryptographic verification systems. The smartphone's biometric sensor, camera, and clock work together to create self-verifying data packets that are automatically validated by the server through digital signatures and timestamp verification, eliminating the time-consuming manual review process while maintaining source verification integrity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS20230207079A1Smartphone-enabled systems, methods, devices, and computer program products for collecting performance data and using a selfie to generate self-verifying data sets

Publication Date: 2023.06.29 CHECKAPP INC (A CANADIAN FEDERAL CORP)

AI summary

Disclosed embodiments relate to a method for creating unique data sets which include and integrate subsets allowing validation of origin (subject), measurement of relevant performance attributes and confirmation of compliance. In one embodiment, a method may be performed by a computing device, CD, for creating data sets. The method may include opening a testing module stored within the CD. The method may further include loading a series of instructions from the testing module. The method may further include creating a first data set based on the instruction. The first data set may include a first biometric sample of the user corresponding to a biometric identifier of the user, a first time stamp marking the time of the creation of the first data set, an internet protocol (IP) address of the CD, and an one or more first test data points requested by the instructions.