User Database Entry via Network Identifier Confirmation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing methods for creating customer accounts in databases are tedious for users, insecure due to the handling of personal data on physical forms, and prone to input errors during data transcription.

Innovation Solution

A method that uses a network identifier, such as a telephone number, to create a user entry in a database, with user confirmation via a security application on their terminal, ensuring data security and simplifying the account creation process by eliminating the need for manual form filling and providing alternative verification methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual form filling is used for account creation, then user information can be collected, but the process becomes tedious for users and prone to input errors

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccount creation processVSAvoiddata input accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses a copy of the user's network identifier (telephone number) that already exists in the telecommunications network to create the database entry, eliminating the need for manual data entry and ensuring accuracy without requiring users to fill out forms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If physical forms are used for data collection, then user information can be gathered, but confidentiality is not ensured due to risk of loss

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata confidentialityVSAvoiddata collection method

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical physical form system with an electronic communication system using network identifiers and digital confirmation, eliminating the risk of physical form loss while maintaining data collection functionality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a network platform as an intermediary that handles data transmission and confirmation between the user and the management server, ensuring secure data handling without requiring physical forms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If network identifier-based confirmation is used, then data confidentiality is improved, but additional verification steps are required

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser identity verificationVSAvoidconfirmation process

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses the user's own network identifier and existing telecommunication infrastructure to perform verification, where the user's terminal automatically responds to confirmation requests without requiring additional manual intervention or complex verification procedures

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11978030B2Securing an entry in a user database

Publication Date: 2024.05.07 ORANGE SA

AI summary

A method for securing an entry in a user database, the method being performed in a management server in charge of the database and comprising the steps of: receiving a network identifier of a user terminal, identifying the user terminal in a telecommunications network; transmitting to a network platform an operator of the telecommunications network a user confirmation request, the request comprising the network identifier of the user terminal; upon receiving a user confirmation from the network platform, creating an entry by the terminal user in the user database, the entry comprising the network identifier of the user terminal.