Trust Network Voucher System for Identity Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computing environments face challenges in verifying user identity for accessing accounts, domain names, and other computing resources, particularly in balancing scrutiny levels to prevent fraud while ensuring users can obtain resources without excessive hindrance.
Innovation Solution
A voucher system is implemented where members with reputation scores vouch for applicants, with verification requirements based on factors like fraud likelihood and content popularity, and reputation scores are adjusted based on policy violations to create a hierarchical trust network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If high level of scrutiny is applied to verify user identity, then fraud prevention is improved, but user access becomes more difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts verification parameters (number of vouchers required, minimum reputation score thresholds) based on content popularity metrics and fraud risk assessments. High-popularity content requires stricter verification while low-popularity content uses lighter verification, resolving the contradiction between fraud prevention and ease of access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces reputation scores as an intermediary mechanism that mediates between fraud prevention needs and user access convenience. Instead of direct high-level scrutiny for all users, the system uses reputation scores to indirectly assess trustworthiness, allowing most users to access content easily while targeting scrutiny only at low-reputation users or high-value content.
2Reliability
If strict verification requirements are imposed on all users, then security is improved, but system complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The verification system applies different levels of scrutiny to different content based on local characteristics (popularity, value, risk). Instead of uniform strict verification across all content, the system tailors verification requirements locally - high-popularity content gets strict verification while ordinary content receives minimal verification, reducing overall system complexity.
3Stability of the object's composition
If uniform verification process is applied to all content, then consistency is maintained, but efficiency decreases due to unnecessary scrutiny on low-risk content
Solution Approach 1:
The verification requirements are made dynamic rather than static. The system automatically adjusts verification thresholds based on real-time content popularity metrics and user reputation scores. This dynamic approach maintains consistency in the verification framework while adapting scrutiny levels to actual risk, thereby improving efficiency without sacrificing consistency.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure is directed to techniques and systems to verify an identity of an applicant to enable the applicant to claim accounts, domain names, electronic messaging addresses, and/or other computing resources in a computing environment. The techniques may use a voucher system that relies on approvals (or vouchers) from members that each has an associated reputation score. The members may vouch for an applicant that submits a request to claim a portion of content. The portion of content may have an associated verification requirement, which may include a predetermined number of vouchers from members where the reputation scores of the members reach or exceed a threshold score.