Cloud Collaboration Permission Layers for Consistent Content Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud-based collaboration environments face challenges in ensuring consistent behavior and user experience due to ad-hoc management of content-related objects, leading to inconsistent permissions and collaboration across different applications.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of Content Application Objects (CAOs) that allow for independent permissions management for users and content items, enabling access control and collaboration through these objects without modifying underlying content item permissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each application manages its own content-related objects with its own permission systems, then each application can have customized control, but consistency and uniformity across applications deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments permission management into two independent layers: application object permissions (controlling access to the container) and content item permissions (controlling access to individual items within). This segmentation allows each layer to operate independently with its own permission settings, enabling customized control at each level while maintaining overall system consistency through the standardized two-layer architecture.
2Productivity
If content items are stored in a centralized repository, then sharing and collaboration are improved, but access control complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The application object serves as an intermediary layer between the centralized repository and individual content items. It provides a standardized interface for access control, managing permissions to content items through this intermediate layer. This intermediary approach simplifies access control by providing a uniform mechanism for granting and managing permissions across multiple content items in the centralized repository.
3Ease of operation
If permissions for application objects and content items are coupled, then simplified management is achieved, but flexibility in access control deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments permission management into two independent layers: application object permissions (controlling access to the container) and content item permissions (controlling access to individual items within). This segmentation allows each layer to operate independently with its own permission settings, enabling customized control at each level while maintaining overall system consistency through the standardized two-layer architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments are directed to access control on curated content items of user groups in a cloud-based collaboration environment. Managing permissions in a cloud-based collaboration environment can comprise creating an application object in the cloud-based collaboration environment. The application object can comprise an object accessible only through an associated application. One or more users of the application object can be added to the application object and permissions for accessing the application object can be defined for the users. One or more content items of content items stored in a repository maintained by the collaboration server can be added to the application object and permissions for accessing the content items can be defined for the users. The permissions for accessing the application object for the users can be independent of the permissions for accessing the content items for the users.