Method and system for pacing, acking, timing, and handicapping (path) for simultaneous receipt of documents employing encryption

摘要

A method of facilitating substantially simultaneous receipt of electronic content by a plurality of intended recipients is disclosed. The electronic content is encrypted. The encrypted electronic content is transmitted to the plurality of intended recipients. An acknowledgement packet is received from each of the plurality of intended recipients within a predetermined timeout period. A handicap time is calculated for transmitting a decryption key to each of the intended recipient based on a time associated with the acknowledgement packet last received. Decryption keys are transmitted to the plurality of intended recipients using a delay based on the handicap time, where a decryption key having a smaller handicap time is transmitted prior to a decryption key having a larger handicap time.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining, by a computing device, at least one portion of impactful content in transmittable content, wherein impactful content refers to any portion of the transmittable content that impacts a financial-related action; dividing, by the computing device, the at least one portion of impactful content in the transmittable content into one or more impactful block units, each impactful block unit comprising a determined numbers of characters; dividing, by the computing device, a remaining portion of the transmittable content into one or more non-impactful block units comprising the determined numbers of characters; encrypting, by the computing device, the one or more impactful block units; transmitting, by the computing device, the one or more non-impactful block units and the one or more impactful block units to a plurality of intended recipients, each character of the determined number of characters of the one or more impactful block units transmitted using both a time delay for a particular intended recipient and a pacing method, the one or more impactful block units to be received simultaneously by the plurality of intended recipients; wherein the time delay for the particular intended recipient is set to the difference between 1/2 of a longest round trip time among all of the intended recipients and 1/2 of a round trip time of the particular intended recipient; and wherein the pacing method comprises commencement of transmission of the one or more impactful block units over a pacing time interval to ensure an evenly-distributed flow of bytes across a plurality of receivers, wherein the pacing time interval is equal to a reciprocal of a longest total transmission time taken for each intended recipient to receive an impactful block unit divided by each intended recipient's number of bytes in an impactful block unit; and transmitting, by the computing device, decryption keys to the plurality of intended recipients using the time delay for the particular intended recipient and a handicap time based on a time associated with an acknowledgement packet last received from each of the plurality of intended recipients.