Universal ID Association Server for Cross-Domain Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user authentication systems require users to create multiple domain-specific identities and credentials for each online provider, leading to fragmented user profiles and lack of seamless network interactions, as existing universal network ID solutions fail to effectively associate these identities across different secure domains.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that associates a universal network identification with one or more domain-specific identities using an ID association server, which facilitates seamless network interactions by linking domain-specific IDs with a domain transcendent ID, ensuring that personally identifiable information is not shared across secure domains, and enabling sharing of transaction information while maintaining security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users create multiple domain-specific identities for each online provider, then security and domain-specific authentication are improved, but user profile fragmentation and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal network ID as an intermediary that mediates between users and multiple domain-specific providers. This universal ID serves as a central identifier that can be recognized across different secure domains, eliminating the need for users to manage multiple separate identities while maintaining domain-specific security requirements through the intermediary layer
2Adaptability or versatility
If a universal network ID is implemented through multiple trusted third-party identity providers, then cross-domain authentication capability is improved, but user profile fragmentation and lack of coordination increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal network ID system that performs multiple functions: it serves as a unique identifier across all domains, enables authentication with any trusted third-party identity provider, and maintains user profile coherence. This single universal ID structure is designed to work universally with any identity provider without requiring complex coordination mechanisms between providers
3Object-affected harmful factors
If domain-specific identities are maintained separately without association, then security and information protection are improved, but network interaction seamlessness and information sharing capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a copied or replicated representation of the user's universal network ID within each domain-specific context. Instead of sharing the actual domain-specific credentials or sensitive information, the system uses copies or references of the universal ID that enable recognition and association across domains while maintaining the security boundaries of each domain
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AI summary
There is presented a system and method for associating a domain transcendent identification (ID) of a user and a domain specific ID of the user, the system comprising an ID association server accessible by a plurality of secure domains over a network. The system also includes an ID associator application that when executed by ID association server is configured to receive a domain specific ID that associates the user to the secure domain, enter the domain specific ID in a domain transcendent ID record created for the user, generate a unique data associated with the domain transcendent ID record and identify a network location for submission of the unique data, send the unique data and the network location to the user, and associate the domain transcendent ID and the domain specific ID.