Travel Digital Records With Persistent Multi-Party Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in authenticating and validating multi-party information and transactions across different connectivity platforms during a user's travel journey, particularly when limited data connectivity is available, leading to difficulties in modifying or updating agreements and contracts between passengers and third-party services.
Innovation Solution
A computing platform integrated with various networks and systems acts as a persistent authentication party, maintaining a digital ledger that records and modifies multi-party information based on authenticating involved parties, allowing users to maintain control over their digital identities and communications across different connectivity mediums.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a digital ledger system is implemented to maintain multi-party information across different connectivity platforms, then authentication and validation of transactions are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a computing platform as an intermediary that maintains a digital ledger and acts as a persistent authentication party. This platform mediates between users and third-party services, handling authentication and validation across different connectivity platforms (terrestrial networks and in-vehicle systems). The intermediary absorbs the complexity of cross-platform authentication, allowing individual components to remain simpler while achieving reliable multi-party validation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users can modify ledger entries while connected to in-vehicle systems with limited data connectivity, then user mobility and flexibility are improved, but authentication reliability may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication actions before connectivity limitations occur. The computing platform authenticates users and validates their identities while they are connected to terrestrial networks with full connectivity. Authentication tokens and digital credentials are issued in advance, allowing users to subsequently modify ledger entries while connected to in-vehicle systems with limited connectivity. The preliminary authentication ensures reliability is maintained even when subsequent operations occur in constrained environments.
3Reliability
If a triple-entry digital ledger requiring authentication from computing platform, user, and third-party service is implemented, then security and control are improved, but operational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where the computing platform automatically manages the triple-entry authentication process. When a user requests to modify a ledger entry, the system automatically verifies the user's credentials, validates the third-party service's authorization, and updates the ledger without requiring manual coordination between all three parties. The digital ledger itself maintains the authentication state, reducing operational complexity while preserving security.
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AI summary
A central computing platform provides users with control over multi-party information involving third-party services during different stages of a travel journey, or while users are provided with data connectivity via different networks or systems. The central computing platform provides a digital ledger on which the multi-party information is recorded. Recording of the multi-party information, as well as modification thereof, requires authentication of each party as well as input (e.g., approval) by the computing platform. In some examples, the central computing platform provides users with control over digital records of real-world interactions with other users. The platform generates and publishes digital records of real-world interactions between users that include media data capturing the real-world interactions. In generating the digital records, the platform authenticates the users involved in the real-world interactions and can execute exchanges of the digital records with third-party users using authentication data for each of the interacting users.