Digital Calendar Security Configuration Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional digital calendar systems are inefficient due to the manual process of managing permissions for event details, which can be burdensome for users and hinder effective scheduling, especially in unified communications as a service (UCaaS) platforms where remote access and integration across different communication modes are limited.
Innovation Solution
A system that applies a security configuration to a digital calendar by linking access to event details with user connections, using a data structure to determine user attributes and relationships, allowing automatic granting of access based on organizational, personal, or business connections, thereby reducing the burden on calendar owners to manage individual permissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual permission management is implemented for calendar event details, then access control security is maintained, but user administrative burden increases and scheduling efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages calendar event permissions by evaluating user connections and relationships without requiring manual intervention from calendar owners. The processor automatically determines which users should have access to event details based on their connections to the calendar owner or other invitees, eliminating the need for users to manually grant or revoke permissions while maintaining secure access control.
2Measurement precision
If individual permissions are manually configured for each user, then precise access control is achieved, but time consumption for permission management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes connection data structures that store relationship information between users before permission decisions are needed. When a calendar event is created or modified, the processor automatically queries these pre-stored connection data to determine appropriate access permissions, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual permission configuration while maintaining precise access control based on user relationships.
3Productivity
If automatic permission granting based on user connections is implemented, then administrative effort is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a connection data structure as an intermediary layer between users and calendar events. This data structure stores pre-defined relationship information (such as organizational hierarchy, team memberships, or contact relationships) that the processor queries to automatically determine permissions. This intermediary approach automates permission management to improve productivity while containing system complexity by using structured, queryable relationship data rather than complex real-time evaluation logic.
Data Source
AI summary
A system may apply a security configuration to a digital calendar corresponding to a first user. The digital calendar may be maintained by calendar software. The digital calendar may include an event having multiple event details including a date for the event and a time for the event. Access to the multiple event details may be limited to the first user by the security configuration. The system may access a data structure in a data store to determine a connection between the first user and a second user based on a user attribute associated with the second user. The system may change the security configuration to grant access to an event detail of the multiple event details to a device associated with the second user based on the connection between the first user and the second user.