User-Centric Digital Asset Protection via Efficacy Scoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional digital security measures are inadequate in addressing user-centric threats beyond device-centric security, failing to provide comprehensive protection for digital assets that include online interactions, privacy, identity, and trust, leading to potential exploitation by malicious entities.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of processor circuitry that scans and monitors digital assets to identify protection threats, determines protection vectors based on threat events, and calculates a protection efficacy score to provide users with a clear understanding of their digital asset protection posture, enabling proactive measures against privacy, identity, and trust threats.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional device-centric security measures are implemented, then device protection from malware and viruses is improved, but comprehensive protection against user-centric threats (privacy, identity, trust) deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice protectionVSAvoidprotection scope
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a multi-dimensional protection framework that extends security coverage from traditional device-centric approaches to encompass user-centric dimensions including privacy, identity, and trust. The system monitors multiple threat vectors simultaneously across device, data, connection, and user interaction layers, providing comprehensive security coverage that adapts to diverse threat scenarios beyond conventional malware protection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive user-centric protection is implemented, then protection coverage against privacy and identity threats is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprotection coverageVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the comprehensive security system into distinct functional modules: device security monitoring, data protection, connection security, and user-centric protection dimensions (privacy, identity, trust). Each module independently monitors specific threat vectors and contributes to an overall protection score, making the complex system manageable through modular design while maintaining comprehensive coverage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces a central processing platform that acts as an intermediary, collecting data from multiple security modules and user devices, analyzing threats across different dimensions, and generating a unified protection efficacy score. This intermediary layer simplifies the complexity by centralizing the analysis and providing a single comprehensive metric to users

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If real-time monitoring and scanning of digital assets is performed, then threat detection capability is improved, but computational resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvethreat detection accuracyVSAvoidcomputational resource usage
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements selective monitoring that focuses computational resources on critical security dimensions and high-risk threat vectors. Rather than uniformly scanning all digital assets with equal intensity, the system prioritizes monitoring of privacy-sensitive data, identity information, and trust-critical interactions, applying partial action where it provides maximum security value while conserving computational resources

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12141270B2Methods and apparatus for comprehensive user-centric protection of digital assets
Publication Date: 2024.11.12 MCAFEE LLC
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AI summary

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for comprehensive user-centric protection of digital assets are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to identify digital assets associated with a protection threat surface, detect protection events corresponding to threats associated with the digital assets, and determine protection vectors associated with the digital assets based on the protection events, the protection vectors corresponding to protection capabilities associated with the digital assets.