Video-Based Social Interaction System for Authentic Identity Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

In social interaction systems, users often provide inaccurate or misleading information when creating virtual identities, which reduces the effectiveness of these systems, as non-video information fails to convey personality effectively and can be easily manipulated.

Innovation Solution

The system requires video-based communications to be mediated through software that directly accesses hardware components, ensuring that video content is created and exchanged exclusively within the social interaction system, using encryption and proprietary file types to prevent manipulation, and limiting content to video recordings that provide authentic visual cues.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users create virtual identities using text and static images, then the system is easy to use and set up, but the information provided is often inaccurate and does not convey the user's true personality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of virtual identity creationVSAvoidaccuracy of user information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces text-based and static image-based identity verification with video-based verification. Video captures dynamic facial expressions, gestures, and voice tones that text and static images cannot convey, thereby substituting a more reliable medium to authenticate user identity and personality traits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the fundamental parameter of identity representation from static (text and images) to dynamic (video). This parameter change allows the system to capture temporal variations in user behavior, facial expressions, and speech patterns, significantly improving the reliability of virtual identity information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of manufacture

If users upload photos and answer prompts to create virtual identities, then the setup process is simple, but users are biased and may supply information that does not accurately reflect their actual identity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesimplicity of account creationVSAvoidaccuracy of self-reporting
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent substitutes self-reported text answers and uploaded photos with video recordings that capture involuntary behavioral cues. These cues include micro-expressions, speech patterns, and body language that users cannot easily manipulate or fake, thereby improving measurement precision of actual identity characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces video as an intermediary medium between the user and the virtual identity creation process. This intermediary captures objective behavioral data that mediates between the user's intended self-presentation and the actual system record, reducing bias in self-reporting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Use of energy by moving object

If non-video information is used for virtual identities, then the system requires less processing and storage, but it does not convey the personality of the user effectively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomputational resource consumptionVSAvoidpersonality information conveyance
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the information carrier from low-bandwidth text and static images to higher-bandwidth video. This parameter change enables the transmission of rich personality information through facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice, and temporal patterns, overcoming the information loss inherent in non-video formats.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP3272127B1Video-based social interaction system
Publication Date: 2019.04.17 PARTOS WALTER
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AI summary

Techniques are described herein for preventing users from lying in a social interaction system by requiring every social interaction to be mediated through software that directly accesses hardware and software components in a user's electronic device. By requiring that every interaction to be through the social interaction system (i.e. the social interaction system has direct access to the hardware components) the users using the social interaction system are more likely to become aware of the other users actual identity before meeting them in person.