Governed Release, Compliance Enforcement, and Sovereign Monetization System for Continuity-Based Session Restoration

A computer-implemented method for governed release, compliance enforcement, and sovereign monetization of continuity-based session restoration, executed by a continuity anchor device comprising a physically integrated secure processing enclave storing non-exportable key material that is not mirrored, escrowed, or re-hosted by any cloud-hosted key management service, the method comprising:

• a) deriving a non-invertible continuity token from one or more biometric or interaction-derived signals or digital persona signatures combined with a device-specific or environment-specific secret value stored within the physically integrated secure processing enclave;
• b) indexing encrypted continuity state data to the continuity token in an encrypted continuity state repository wherein decryption requires anchor-local authorization artifact generation using the non-exportable key material;
• c) evaluating a governed release rule set to determine at least one disclosure constraint;
• d) generating a least-disclosure continuity payload responsive to the governed release rule set;
• e) generating and validating local authorization requests using non-exportable key material through a decentralized accountless authorization gateway without transmitting continuity material or biometric data externally;
• f) enforcing metered consumption by tracking authorization credit consumption in a metering register stored exclusively within the physically integrated secure processing enclave;
• g) monitoring biometric indicators and device tamper conditions using a safety governance layer and initiating cryptographic erasure of stored continuity tokens upon satisfaction of a safety revocation threshold;
• and
• h) restoring continuity following an interruption event when a similarity metric between a re-derived continuity token and a stored reference continuity token satisfies a predefined continuity confidence threshold and when permitted by the governed release rule set and when no safety lock state is active,
• wherein remote attestation evidence, by itself and absent satisfaction of on-device physical possession and liveness conditions, does not authorize continuity restoration or governed release, and wherein all operations are executable without network connectivity as a prerequisite.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing machine-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a continuity anchor device comprising a physically integrated secure processing enclave storing non-exportable key material that is not instantiable as, substitutable by, or satisfiable through any remote service, cloud-hosted execution environment, or network-accessible trusted execution environment, and that is not mirrored, escrowed, or re-hosted by any cloud-hosted key management service, cause the continuity anchor device to:

• a) derive a non-invertible continuity token from one or more biometric or interaction-derived signals or digital persona signatures combined with a device-specific or environment-specific secret value stored within the physically integrated secure processing enclave;
• b) index encrypted continuity state data to the continuity token in an encrypted continuity state repository wherein decryption requires anchor-local authorization artifact generation using the non-exportable key material;
• c) evaluate a governed release rule set and generate a least-disclosure continuity payload responsive thereto;
• d) generate authorization artifacts within the physically integrated secure processing enclave using the non-exportable key material, each artifact being cryptographically bound to the continuity token and the requested operation, bound to a freshness value comprising at least one of a nonce, monotonic counter value, or time-window parameter, and rendered invalid upon successful verification;
• e) enforce metered consumption through a metering register stored exclusively within the physically integrated secure processing enclave, tracking monotonically incrementing consumption counters and enforcing throttle limits without network dependency;
• f) enforce safety governance by monitoring biometric indicators and device tamper conditions, requiring active user consent, and initiating irreversible cryptographic erasure of stored continuity tokens and encrypted continuity memory upon safety revocation threshold satisfaction;
• and
• g) restore continuity when a similarity metric satisfies a predefined continuity confidence threshold and when permitted by the governed release rule set and when no safety lock state is active,
• wherein remote attestation evidence, cloud-hosted key management services, centralized identity providers, and remote commands are each insufficient by themselves to authorize continuity restoration, governed release, entitlement modification, or safety lock release absent anchor-local authorization artifact generation using non-exportable key material under exclusive cryptographic control of the physically integrated secure processing enclave.