Centralized Security System for Heterogeneous Collaboration Platforms

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing data security systems lack the capability to establish and monitor a common set of collaboration settings across heterogeneous online collaboration platforms, leading to inefficiencies and errors in enforcing data security and compliance policies.

Innovation Solution

A centralized data security system that collects collaboration platform settings through APIs, analyzes them against a policy of common collaboration settings, and enforces compliance by automatically updating settings across platforms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual monitoring and management of collaboration settings across multiple platforms is performed, then flexibility in handling platform-specific settings is maintained, but efficiency and accuracy of policy enforcement deteriorate due to extensive manual intervention and human error

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of setting managementVSAvoidaccuracy of policy enforcement

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service automation where the centralized data security system automatically discovers, monitors, and updates collaboration settings across multiple platforms without requiring manual human intervention. The system autonomously queries platform APIs, compares settings against security policies, and applies corrective updates, thereby improving both efficiency and reliability simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual process of monitoring and managing collaboration settings with an automated computer-based system. The centralized data security system uses software agents and API integrations to automatically discover and enforce security policies across heterogeneous collaboration platforms, eliminating human error and significantly improving both productivity and reliability of policy enforcement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of operation

If individual platform-specific interfaces are used to manage collaboration settings, then platform-specific control precision is maintained, but operational complexity and time consumption increase due to needing to access multiple different interfaces

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesimplicity of setting managementVSAvoidtime for setting management

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The centralized data security system provides a universal multi-functional platform that can manage collaboration settings across multiple different collaboration platforms through a single interface. The system integrates with various platform APIs and presents a unified view and control mechanism, allowing administrators to monitor and enforce security policies across all platforms without needing to switch between individual platform interfaces, thereby simplifying operations and reducing time consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a centralized data security system as an intermediary layer between administrators and multiple collaboration platforms. This intermediary provides a single unified interface that abstracts away the complexity of individual platform-specific interfaces, allowing administrators to manage settings across all platforms through one consistent portal while maintaining the ability to enforce platform-specific requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If centralized automated monitoring of collaboration settings is implemented, then policy enforcement accuracy improves, but system complexity increases due to integrating with multiple heterogeneous platforms

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconsistency of policy enforcementVSAvoidcomplexity of integration system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The centralized data security system employs segmentation by deploying separate platform-specific integration modules or agents that each handle communication with individual collaboration platforms. Each module is responsible for discovering and monitoring settings on a specific platform, and these modular components can be independently developed, maintained, and updated. This segmentation reduces the complexity of the overall integration system while maintaining consistent policy enforcement across all platforms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12206553B2Systems and methods for monitoring and enforcing controls across heterogeneous platforms

Publication Date: 2025.01.21 THETA LAKE INC

AI summary

A data security system interfaces with a plurality of heterogeneous online platforms, each having its own platform specific set of data compliance or security settings. The data security system maps a set of common data compliance or security settings to the platform specific data compliance or security settings and monitors a state of the platform specific set of data compliance or security settings. If the data security system determines that the state of a platform specific data compliance or security settings do not comply with a specified common data compliance or security setting state, the system automatically changes the state of the platform specific data compliance or security settings to comply with the common data compliance or security settings setting state.