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Sharing a phone number or email to enable access (to a platform, a service, a conversation) leaks that identity permanently: it can be reused, forwarded, scraped, and abused for spam, phishing, harassment, and data-broker profiling. There is no practical way for a person to grant another party time-bound, purpose-bound, relationship-bound access without handing over a core identifier. This is a structural problem across marketplaces (rentals, matrimony, classifieds, delivery, ride-hailing), CPaaS communications, and DPDP/privacy-consent workflows, and current number-masking and OTP flows do not address identity, scope, duration or revocation.

The invention lets a person share a context-specific, relationship-specific virtual identity (a handle such as @rahul/rental) rather than their phone number or email. The recipient can reach the person only within the permissions the person set — who can reach them, for what purpose, by which channel, and until when — with automatic expiry and revocation baked in. This preserves reachability for legitimate use while removing permanent exposure of core identifiers, and it applies across the sharing, communications, and consent layers of any platform. Live product: XID (xidgate.com); XID trademark (classes 9, 35, 38, 45) and working product can be bundled.

Yes. Existing approaches (number masking, virtual numbers, OTP/session relay, anonymized email aliases, zero-knowledge contact discovery) each address only part of this: they hide a phone number or route a call, but do not model the relationship context, do not express purpose/channel/duration/revocation as first-class permissions on an identity, and are not designed to plug into marketplace, CPaaS and DPDP-consent workflows as a composable identity layer. The gap is an identity-layer primitive that carries who/why/how/until-when permissions and lifecycle (expiry + revocation) with the shared reference itself — which this patent defines and which is embodied in the XID product.