Tamper-Proof Session Data Storage for Personal Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital data processing systems lack effective measures to ensure user safety during personal rendezvous sessions, particularly in preventing unauthorized intrusion, data modification, or tampering, and providing a reliable forensic record of interactions.
Innovation Solution
A system that initiates a monitored and reconstructible personal rendezvous session using smart, portable devices, which tracks user location, records all communications, and stores data remotely in a tamper-proof manner, providing an unalterable record of events that can be used as evidence in case of emergencies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time monitoring and recording of rendezvous sessions is implemented, then user safety and security are improved, but device complexity and data management burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that receives, stores, and manages session data from user devices. This mediator handles the complexity of data preservation, authentication, and forensic record-keeping, freeing individual devices from bearing the full burden of secure data management while maintaining reliable safety monitoring
Solution Approach 2:
The system divides functionality between the user device (which performs local monitoring and recording) and the server (which performs centralized data storage and management). This segmentation allows the device to focus on safety monitoring without being overwhelmed by the complexity of long-term secure data preservation
2Reliability
If session data is stored remotely on a server, then data integrity and tamper-proofing are improved, but loss of local control and increased network dependency occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing secure server-side storage and authentication mechanisms before any session data is generated. This pre-configuration ensures that data integrity is built into the system architecture from the start, with the server ready to receive and protect data before the rendezvous session begins
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates copies of session data stored on the server while maintaining the original local records on user devices. This copying approach allows users to retain local control over their data while simultaneously benefiting from the tamper-proof server-side copies for forensic purposes
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive session monitoring is implemented, then forensic accuracy and evidence reliability are improved, but user privacy and data security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different quality levels to different aspects of session data: comprehensive monitoring is applied to safety-critical elements (location, timestamps, communication metadata) while more sensitive personal information receives differentiated handling. This local quality approach ensures forensic accuracy where needed while protecting privacy where possible
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a system that adapts a personally portable “smart” communications device to enhance a user's personal security by continuously monitoring an alert function of the device from a remote location during a user initiated “session.” The user device is in communications with a remote server, which monitors the alert function and provides: accurate preservation of session data; monitoring of user device ambient conditions; dispatch of emergency services; and notification of third parties. Server software (host application) on the remote server manages communications with user devices. The server collects, processes and stores data; dispenses data according to a rule set, and manages multiple user sessions. User software manages the initiation and conduct of a session and communications with the server. The user and server software in combination provide for establishing, maintaining operations of the system, and databases accessible by the remote server for storage/archiving of system data.