Simulated Environment Monitoring for Anomaly Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Simulated environments are vulnerable to manipulation and compromise by bad actors, who can mimic or alter them to obtain user information, with previous technologies failing to detect and address these vulnerabilities effectively.

Innovation Solution

A system that includes a simulated environment monitoring device with a processor communicatively coupled to a cloud-based subsystem, which monitors the rendering of the environment over time, detects anomalies in object features, and proactively modifies the environment to identify and block anomalous content, while alerting users and administrators to take corrective action.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If simulated environments are made more interactive and immersive, then user experience is improved, but vulnerability to manipulation and compromise increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser experienceVSAvoidvulnerability to manipulation

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary monitoring and analysis of the simulated environment before malicious manipulation can occur. The monitoring device continuously tracks object features and environmental parameters in advance, establishing baseline data that enables early detection of anomalies and preemptive security responses.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a monitoring device as an intermediary between the simulated environment and the user. This intermediary layer observes and analyzes environmental parameters without interfering with the immersive experience, providing security verification while maintaining the integrity and realism of the simulated environment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If monitoring and detection capabilities are enhanced, then security against anomalous content is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity detection capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The monitoring system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a monitoring device for data collection, an analysis component for feature extraction and anomaly detection, and a response mechanism for security actions. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in specific tasks, improving detection reliability while managing overall system complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The monitoring device automatically performs self-diagnosis and anomaly detection without requiring external intervention. The system autonomously analyzes environmental parameters, identifies deviations from baseline patterns, and triggers appropriate security responses, reducing the operational complexity burden on users while maintaining high detection capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If real-time monitoring of environment parameters is implemented, then anomaly detection accuracy is improved, but computational resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveanomaly detection accuracyVSAvoidcomputational resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial monitoring by focusing computational resources on critical parameters and objects within the simulated environment. Rather than analyzing every element continuously, the monitoring device selectively tracks key features and environmental parameters that are most indicative of malicious manipulation, achieving high detection accuracy with reduced computational overhead.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The monitoring system employs periodic sampling of environmental parameters rather than continuous monitoring. By analyzing parameters at strategically selected time intervals and triggering detailed analysis only when anomalies are detected, the system maintains high measurement precision while significantly reducing overall computational resource consumption during normal operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS11831665B2Device for monitoring a simulated environment

Publication Date: 2023.11.28 BANK OF AMERICA CORP

AI summary

A simulated environment presentation device with a display configured to present a rendering of a simulated environment. A simulated environment subsystem is communicatively coupled to the simulated environment presentation device and is configured to provide instructions for rendering the simulated environment. A simulated environment monitoring device includes at least one processor communicatively coupled to the simulated environment subsystem. The simulated environment monitoring device monitors the rendering of the simulated environment over a period of time. Features associated with objects presented in the rendering of the simulated environment are determined over the period of time. An anomaly associated with a first object is detected based on a change in a determined first feature of the first object over the period of time. The simulated environment monitoring device then causes the simulated environment subsystem to modify the rendering of the simulated environment to identify the first object as an anomalous object.