Collaboration Platform Calendar Event Trust Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional calendaring systems fail to automatically share meeting invitations and events across users, leading to individuals missing key meetings due to oversight in invitation lists, causing frustration for schedulers and manual policing of calendars.
Innovation Solution
Establishing a trust relationship between users on a collaboration platform allows for automatic forwarding of calendar-related events, enabling users to review and accept meeting invitations and announcements, with options for granular permission control and rule-based filtering.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual forwarding of meeting invitations is used, then individuals can be added to meeting lists, but the process requires manual interaction and may not keep third parties informed of changes
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically forwarding meeting invitation information to third parties before they need to manually request it. The trust relationship is established in advance, enabling automatic forwarding of calendar events without requiring manual intervention when events are created or modified.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing users to automatically forward their own calendar event information to trusted third parties without requiring those third parties to manually police or request updates. The calendaring system itself handles the forwarding automatically based on established trust relationships.
2Loss of information
If third parties proactively police calendars manually, then they can identify relevant meetings, but this requires significant time and manual effort
Solution Approach 1:
The calendaring system performs self-service by automatically pushing calendar event information to third parties based on trust relationships. This eliminates the need for third parties to manually monitor or police calendars, as the system autonomously identifies and forwards relevant event information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by automatically notifying third parties of calendar event changes. When events are created, modified, or cancelled, the system provides immediate feedback to trusted third parties, ensuring they remain informed without manual intervention.
3Productivity
If automatic forwarding of calendar events is implemented, then users are informed of meetings they were overlooked for, but permission control and trust establishment are required
Solution Approach 1:
The trust relationship mechanism serves multiple functions: it enables automatic forwarding, controls permission levels, manages information sharing boundaries, and establishes user confidence. This universal mechanism handles various aspects of automated calendar sharing without requiring separate systems for each function.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and computer program product for establishing a trust relationship between a first user of a collaboration platform and at least a second user of the collaboration platform. Information concerning calendar-related events for the at least a second user is automatically forwarded to the first user.