Mobile Wallet Age Verification via Barcode Validation Bypass
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for selling age-restricted products face challenges in preventing underage purchases, especially in online sales, where age verification checks may not be consistently enforced, leading to potential legal and regulatory issues for sellers and manufacturers.
Innovation Solution
A controlled dispensing system that requires age verification during account setup and links the consumer's identity and personal electronic device to the product, ensuring that the product can only be used when in range of the authorized device, with additional biometric verification options, allowing for automated and efficient age-restricted product distribution without the need for a live person at the point of sale.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automated dispensing systems are implemented for age-restricted products, then productivity and availability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the age verification process into separate modules: device identifier detection, user account matching, and authorization decision-making. This segmentation allows each component to perform its function independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining automated dispensing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
User accounts are pre-configured with age verification data and device identifiers before the dispensing transaction occurs. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for complex real-time verification algorithms during the actual dispensing process, simplifying the operational complexity while maintaining high productivity.
2Reliability
If multiple verification methods (biometric, device linkage) are implemented, then reliability of age verification is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A centralized server acts as an intermediary between the dispensing device and the user's personal electronic device. The server stores and manages the linkage between device identifiers, user accounts, and age verification data, reducing the complexity burden on the dispensing device itself while maintaining high verification reliability through multiple check points.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses a universal user account framework that can accommodate multiple verification methods (biometric data, device identifiers, age information) within a single standardized structure. This multi-functionality allows the same basic architecture to support various verification approaches without requiring separate complex systems for each method.
3Ease of operation
If live person verification is eliminated, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision of identity verification may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback loops where the dispensing device queries the server to verify the personal electronic device's identifier against the stored user account information. This automated feedback mechanism ensures precise identity verification by systematically checking multiple data points (device identifier, user account linkage, age restrictions) without requiring human judgment, thereby maintaining both ease of operation and verification precision.
Data Source
AI summary
A browser application of a mobile device receives an instruction from a web page to obtain identity and/or age data from a digital wallet application of the mobile device, obtains the requested data upon successful biometric authentication, transmits the requested data to the server system, receives a graphic barcode from the server system corresponding to a determination by the server system that the requested data satisfies an identity or age-based restriction or regulation, and causes the graphic barcode to be displayed on a display of the mobile device. A verifying device scans the graphic barcode and transmits it to the server system. The server system transmits a validation decision to the verifying device based on a determination that the graphic barcode transmitted to the mobile device corresponds to the graphic barcode received from the verifying device.