Shareable Widget Interface for Mobile Wallet Security

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mobile transaction processing systems lack scalability and flexibility to meet the growing demand for secure personalized transaction services, failing to address the need for efficient client contact and business scalability.

Innovation Solution

A multi-tiered secure mobile transaction platform that provides a carrier-grade infrastructure for secure transactional services, enabling secure electronic transactions through dynamic authentication and a robust trust model, allowing users to conduct transactions directly with merchants without intermediaries, and facilitating secure commerce across multiple domains.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If existing mobile transaction processing systems are used, then basic transaction functionality is provided, but scalability and flexibility to meet growing demand for secure personalized transaction services is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflexibility for secure personalized transaction servicesVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into distinct modules including a mobile device with wallet application, a trusted service manager for security management, and a merchant system. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system flexibility and scalability for personalized transaction services.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If existing mobile transaction processing systems are used, then transaction processing is enabled, but scalability to address ever growing demand is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction processing capacityVSAvoidsecurity reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

A trusted service manager acts as an intermediary between the mobile device and merchant systems, managing security credentials and authentication. This intermediary layer enables scalable transaction processing while maintaining security reliability through centralized security management and verification protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If direct transactions between users and merchants are enabled, then client contact and business scalability are improved, but security management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedirect client contactVSAvoidsecurity management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Security credentials and authentication mechanisms are established in advance through the trusted service manager before transactions occur. The mobile device is pre-configured with security certificates and the merchant system is pre-validated, enabling direct user-merchant transactions without real-time security management complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10558963B2Shareable widget interface to mobile wallet functions
Publication Date: 2020.02.11 MASTERCARD MOBILE TRANSACTIONS SOLUTIONS
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AI summary

Configuring a shareable widget interface to mobile wallet functions includes disposing a wallet module in a memory of a client device, and disposing a wallet companion applet in a secure element accessible by the client device, wherein the wallet companion applet facilitates access by at least one other applet and at least one wallet module to content that is stored in the secure element via a mobile wallet function sharable interface.