Security Token Data Compression for Faster Certificate Initialization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Tokens used for storing security information, such as digital certificates and keys, face slow access times and limited memory capacity, making efficient data management and initialization challenging.
Innovation Solution
A system that compresses aggregated data objects onto a token, reducing storage space requirements and improving initialization efficiency by writing and reading data in contiguous blocks, rather than individually compressing each object.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If data objects are stored individually on a token, then data integrity is maintained, but memory capacity is quickly exhausted and access time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent aggregates multiple data objects into a single compressed data structure stored on the token. This merging approach reduces the total storage space required while maintaining the ability to retrieve individual data objects through decompression and extraction, thereby resolving the contradiction between limited memory capacity and data integrity requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested structure where individual data objects are embedded within a compressed aggregate data structure. This allows the system to store multiple data objects in a compact form factor while enabling selective access to individual nested objects, effectively addressing both memory capacity constraints and access time requirements.
2Reliability
If more security information is stored on a token, then security capability is enhanced, but memory capacity is exceeded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies data compression techniques that transform the physical state of stored data from uncompressed to compressed form. This parameter change in data representation allows significantly more security information to be stored within the same memory capacity, thereby enhancing security capability without exceeding storage limits.
3Quantity of substance
If data is compressed and stored on a token, then storage efficiency is improved, but data access complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs data compression and aggregation in advance during the initialization phase, before the token is put into service. This preliminary action eliminates the need for complex real-time compression operations during data access, thereby maintaining storage efficiency while reducing access complexity to simple decompression and extraction operations.
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AI summary
A computer system, method and/or computer-readable medium provide independent data objects to a token in compressed form. The independent data objects are representative of security information associated with the token. The system includes an interface operable to communicate with a token, and a processor cooperatively operable with the interface. The processor is configured to determine a set of independent data objects that are associated with the token, and to aggregate the set of independent data objects associated with the token into a group. Also, the processor is configured for compressing the group into a unit of contiguous data, and writing the unit of contiguous data to the token via the interface.