Steganographic GUI Access Layers for Unauthorized Access Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users are often presented with excessive and irrelevant information, and unauthorized access is a concern in complex information systems, necessitating improved methods for information access and security.
Innovation Solution
A computing platform embeds steganography within graphical user interfaces, allowing for customized access permissions and recording user interactions to detect unauthorized access, with AI-driven error remediation and security actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all information is displayed in the graphical user interface, then users have access to complete information, but the interface becomes cluttered and overwhelming for users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds steganography within graphical user interface elements (images, videos, audio files) to hide additional information layers. Users can access hidden information through specific interactions without it being immediately visible, creating a nested information structure where primary content is displayed clearly and secondary content is concealed within the same interface elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds an temporal and interactive dimension to information display by embedding steganography that requires specific user actions (hovering, clicking, playing media) to reveal. This transforms the interface from a static display of all information to a multi-layered experience where information is revealed across different interaction states.
2Reliability
If access permissions are restricted for security, then unauthorized access is prevented, but legitimate users may have difficulty accessing needed information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different access permission levels to different layers of steganography embedded within the same interface element. Authorized users can access multiple layers of hidden information through progressive interactions, while unauthorized users are blocked at each layer. This creates localized quality variations in information accessibility without compromising overall security.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-embeds multiple layers of steganography with progressively restricted access permissions within interface elements. Users must perform preliminary authorized actions (authentication, specific interactions) to unlock each subsequent layer, allowing the system to prepare security checks in advance while maintaining a clean interface.
3Reliability
If monitoring is implemented to detect unauthorized access, then security is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements change log management that automatically records user interactions with steganography layers and compares them against access permissions. This feedback mechanism continuously monitors for unauthorized access attempts and triggers security actions when violations are detected, creating a self-regulating security system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses AI engines and sandbox environments to automatically analyze interactions and detect unauthorized access without requiring constant human intervention. The change log management system self-comparisons recorded actions against permission sets and autonomously initiates security responses, reducing the need for complex manual monitoring infrastructure.
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AI summary
A computing platform may generate a graphical user interface. The computing platform may embed, into the graphical user interface, steganography, which may include information corresponding to the graphical user interface that is not displayed on the graphical user interface. The computing platform may receive, from a user device of a user, an interface access request and user access credentials. The computing platform may identify, based on the user access credentials, access permissions of the user, which may define portions of the steganography to which the user has access. The computing platform may record, in a change log, interactions of the user with the graphical user interface. The computing platform may compare the interactions in the change log with the access permissions to identify whether or not unauthorized access is detected. Based on detecting the unauthorized access, the computing platform may initiate security actions for the graphical user interface.