Supervised Data Transfer with Human Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack sufficient automated support to ensure that data transfers between networks are authorized by human users, risking compromise from rogue users or software.
Innovation Solution
A system with separate computing environments for data transfer requests, including a supervisory mechanism to verify human involvement through metrics analysis and challenge-response tests, ensuring that data transfers are initiated by human users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automated data transfer control is implemented without human verification, then productivity is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to unauthorized transfers from rogue users or software
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a supervisory mechanism as an intermediary between the automated data transfer system and the authorization decision-making process. This supervisory mechanism monitors transfer requests, analyzes user behavior patterns, and determines whether human involvement is present, thereby maintaining automated efficiency while ensuring reliable authorization through intermediate verification
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where the supervisory mechanism continuously monitors data transfer requests, compares user behavior against established patterns, and adjusts authorization decisions based on this feedback. This enables the system to maintain high productivity while dynamically ensuring reliability through continuous verification
2Reliability
If human verification is required for all data transfers, then reliability is improved, but productivity deteriorates due to manual decision-making requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial automation by requiring human verification only when the supervisory mechanism detects suspicious patterns or uncertain authorization scenarios. For routine transfers with clear authorization patterns, the system operates automatically without human intervention, thus maintaining high productivity while providing reliability assurance where needed
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of user behavior patterns and authorization contexts before requiring human verification. By pre-establishing behavior baselines and automatically verifying routine requests, the system prepares authorization decisions in advance, reducing the need for manual intervention and maintaining productivity while ensuring reliability
3Reliability
If sophisticated behavior analysis is implemented to detect human users, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The supervisory mechanism leverages existing user behavior data and system logs to automatically establish behavior patterns and perform verification. Rather than requiring complex external verification systems, the mechanism uses self-generated data from normal system operations to detect human users, thereby improving reliability without proportionally increasing device complexity
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AI summary
An apparatus and method are provided for controlling a transfer of data between data communications networks. In a preferred implementation, an apparatus is provided comprising: a data store; computer providing, in a first computing environment, a first network interface for accessing a first data communications network and a first user interface for receiving a first data transfer request to download data from a data source linked to the first data communications network to the data store; computer providing, in a second computing environment isolated from the first computing environment, a second network interface for accessing a second data communications network and a second user interface for receiving a second data transfer request to transfer downloaded data from the data store to a recipient device linked to the second data communications network; and data transfer controller with access to resources in both the first and second computing environments for controlling downloads and transfers of data according to the first and second requests, further comprising a supervisory controller arranged to determine, prior to implementing the second request, that at least the second request originates from a human user.