Validation Privacy Server Segments Identity Verification Load
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for validating personal identity and documents lack mechanisms for consented use of personal identity information (PII) and overburden high-security government databases with low-risk transactions, such as purchasing alcoholic beverages, leading to privacy concerns and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a Validation Privacy Server and its associated database, which enables voluntary enrollment and minimal disclosure of personal data, allowing users to control the level of identity verification required for specific purposes, using protocols that include opt-in consent and anonymous methods to validate documents with varying security levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If access to high-security government databases is used for low-risk transactions, then identity validation can be performed, but the databases become overburdened and privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments identity validation into two tiers: a public validation server for low-risk transactions and secure government databases for high-risk transactions. This segmentation allows low-risk transactions to be processed without overburdening government databases, resolving the contradiction between reliable validation and database productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
A public validation server acts as an intermediary between users and government databases. This intermediary handles low-risk validation requests locally, only querying government databases when necessary, thus reducing overall database load while maintaining validation reliability.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive personal identity information is accessed for document validation, then validation accuracy is improved, but privacy protection is weakened
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary validation information from comprehensive PII datasets. Instead of accessing all personal identity information, the validation server queries only specific fields needed for the transaction, minimizing PII disclosure while maintaining validation accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
Different validation depths are applied locally based on risk level. Low-risk transactions receive simplified validation with minimal data access, while high-risk transactions trigger comprehensive validation. This local quality approach balances accuracy needs with privacy protection.
3Loss of information
If strict privacy protection protocols are implemented, then PII disclosure is minimized, but validation speed decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation actions at the public validation server before querying secure databases. By pre-checking document format and performing basic validation locally, the system minimizes PII disclosure while preparing data for faster subsequent database queries when needed.
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatus is disclosed for verifying the validity of documents and biometrics submitted by individuals at a document verification terminal, or the use of an e-token with appropriate information thereon in an encrypted manner, so they may perform some action such as purchase an alcoholic beverage or enter a highly secure governmental facility. A Validation Privacy Server and its associated Validation Privacy Database store the results of previous document and biometric validity checks using governmental databases, to be used for subsequent submissions of the same document for the same purpose. In this manner governmental databases are not overloaded with mundane document and personal validity checks every time a document is used for the same purpose. The storage of the results of document checking by the Validation Privacy Server and its associated Validation Privacy Database may be performed with or without the approval of the individual depending on privacy determinations as to the accessibility of the information.