Category-Sensitive Chat Channels With Automatic Content Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems lack effective mechanisms to restrict access to sensitive information based on category levels, leading to unauthorized sharing and potential breaches.
Innovation Solution
Implement category-sensitive chat channels with assigned category levels that filter and restrict content based on security or sensitivity classifications, allowing only authorized users to access information within the designated level, and provide threaded channels for different views of information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If information is shared freely in electronic spaces, then ease of information sharing is improved, but security and unauthorized access control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The chat system is segmented into multiple category-sensitive chat channels, each assigned a specific category level (e.g., security classification or sensitivity classification). This segmentation allows information to be shared freely within appropriate channels while maintaining security control through category-based access restrictions.
Solution Approach 2:
A filtering mechanism acts as an intermediary between users and chat channels, automatically filtering information based on category levels before posting. This intermediary ensures that only appropriately classified information reaches each channel, maintaining security without requiring users to manually control access.
2Reliability
If category filtering is implemented in chat channels, then information security is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically filtering information based on category levels without requiring manual intervention. The filtering mechanism autonomously determines whether information should be posted in specific channels based on their assigned category levels, reducing the need for complex manual access control configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The category level assignment and filtering mechanism serves multiple functions: it classifies information, controls access across multiple channels, and prevents unauthorized sharing. This universal approach simplifies the system compared to implementing separate access control mechanisms for each channel.
3Measurement precision
If threaded chat channels with different category levels are created, then access control precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system adds a categorical dimension to chat channel organization, creating threaded channels with different category levels (e.g., public, internal, confidential, top secret). This dimensional approach allows precise access control based on information classification while maintaining a structured, manageable channel hierarchy.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for providing category-sensitive chat channels. A category-sensitive chat channel may be provided. The category-sensitive chat channel may be assigned a given category level. The given category level may determine a scope of content allowed in the category-sensitive chat channel. Information to be posted through the category-sensitive chat channel may be obtained. The obtained information may be filtered based on the given category level. The filtered information may be posted in the category-sensitive chat channel.