Smartwatch Light Mesh Authentication for ATM Fraud Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing smartwatch payment systems lack robust authentication mechanisms to verify the authenticity of card holders within a threshold distance, necessitating the need for additional devices for authentication and risking fraud without validating the authenticity and credit history of card holders.
Innovation Solution
A smartwatch equipped with a light mesh display that interacts with nearby smartwatches and ATMs, utilizing a bulk synchronous processing algorithm and fraud detection controller to authenticate transactions, displaying valid, invalid, or pending transactions through a multi-colored node system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If smartwatch enables automatic payments with multiple cards without authentication, then payment convenience is improved, but fraud risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a light mesh display as an intermediary authentication mechanism between the smartwatch and payment cards. The light mesh visually represents authenticated cards and their status, serving as a mediator that confirms card holder identity without requiring additional external devices. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining payment convenience while adding a layer of security visualization.
Solution Approach 2:
The smartwatch performs self-authentication by displaying the light mesh pattern that indicates which cards are authenticated and ready for payment. The system serves itself by internally validating cards and presenting the authentication status through the light mesh, eliminating the need for external authentication devices while maintaining security.
2Reliability
If smartwatch validates authenticity and credit history of card holders, then fraud prevention is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses color changes in the light mesh display to indicate different authentication states and card statuses. Different colors represent different levels of validation (e.g., authenticated vs. unauthenticated cards, credit status, fraud risk levels). This visual encoding system provides comprehensive fraud prevention information without requiring complex interfaces or additional hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The light mesh display adds a visual dimension to authentication status representation. Instead of requiring users to navigate through multiple menus or connect to external devices, the authentication state is projected as a two-dimensional light pattern on the smartwatch display, making complex validation information easily accessible at a glance.
3Reliability
If smartwatch requires additional devices for authentication, then security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The smartwatch serves multiple functions: it stores multiple payment cards, performs authentication validation, displays authentication status through the light mesh, and executes payments. By consolidating these functions into a single device, the patent eliminates the need for additional authentication devices while maintaining security through the light mesh visualization system.
4Loss of information
If smartwatch displays authentication status for multiple cards, then user awareness is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the authentication information into discrete light mesh units, where each unit or pattern represents a specific card's authentication status. This segmentation allows the system to handle multiple cards independently, displaying their individual states (authenticated, unauthenticated, credit status) as distinct visual elements within the overall light mesh pattern, making complex information manageable and interpretable.
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AI summary
An interactive light mesh over a smartwatch that operates as a customer authenticator and fraud detector, and its method of use, are provided. The interactive light mesh may comprise muti-colored nodes representing smartwatches and automatic teller machines (“ATMs”) located within a threshold distance from the interactive light mesh. The interactive light mesh may display data elements from smartwatches and ATMs. The interactive light mesh may display communications with financial institutions associated with each smartwatch and ATM. Each financial institution may transmit an approval request to a device associated with each smartwatch or ATM. Each device may receive a request to approve each transaction. Each device may approve the request, and the approval may be transmitted to each financial institution. Each financial institution may transmit an approval notification to the smartwatch. Upon receipt of an approval notification for each smartwatch or ATM, the smartwatch may transmit the captured data elements and the transaction amount for each smartwatch or ATM and payee data to a processor for transaction processing. The interactive light mesh may display transaction approvals, denials, and questionable transactions.