Bridge Component Automates Security Group Assignment in CMS
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current content management systems (CMS) face inefficiencies and errors in managing digital security across large populations, as security and targeting processes are disjointed and require manual intervention, leading to potential human errors and increased complexity.
Innovation Solution
A bridge component is interposed between the content targeting and security portions of a CMS, using underlying logic to create and manage security groups, ensuring consistency and automating the assignment of permissions, thereby streamlining security management and reducing manual errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual techniques are used for security management in CMS, then flexibility in security configuration is maintained, but human errors increase and management efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a bridge component as an intermediary between the content targeting system and the security system. This bridge automatically translates targeting segments into security groups, eliminating manual intervention and the associated human errors while maintaining system flexibility. The bridge serves as a mediator that connects two previously disjoint systems, enabling automated security management without sacrificing configurability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If security and targeting processes are kept separate, then each process can be optimized independently, but system complexity increases and consistency between security and targeting deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the security process and targeting process by introducing a bridge that connects them. Instead of keeping them completely separate, the bridge combines their functionalities by translating targeting segments into security groups automatically. This reduces system complexity and ensures consistency between security and targeting while preserving the ability to optimize each process independently through the standardized interface provided by the bridge.
3Measurement precision
If manual security group creation is performed for each targeting segment, then security control precision is maintained, but time consumption and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The bridge component performs preliminary action by automatically creating security groups based on targeting segments before any manual security configuration is needed. It proactively translates targeting logic into security group definitions, eliminating the need for manual group creation for each segment. This maintains security control precision through automated translation of targeting criteria while dramatically reducing the time and operational complexity of security management.
4Productivity
If automated security management is implemented, then efficiency and consistency are improved, but system complexity and integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The bridge component is designed with universality, serving multiple functions: it translates targeting segments into security groups, automatically manages security group membership, and applies security policies. This multi-functional design consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems or manual processes into a single integrated component, improving efficiency and consistency while minimizing the increase in system integration complexity.
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AI summary
A bridge component is interposed between a content targeting portion of a computerized content management system and a security portion of the system. the content targeting portion has a plurality of targeting segments defined therein. The bridge component creates a plurality of corresponding security groups for at least a subset of the plurality of targeting segments for which pre-existing security groups have not been created. For the targeting segments, accessing, with the bridge component, underlying logic used by the content targeting portion to create the targeting segments, and use the logic to determine whether each potential group member matches the logic. Add at least those of the potential group members that match the logic, and are not already present, to an appropriate one of the corresponding security groups; remove those that do not match. Apply security to the resulting updated security groups with the security portion, and distribute content accordingly.