Collection Folder Isolating Submissions via Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online storage systems lack efficient mechanisms for collectors to manage file submissions from multiple submitters without exposing each submitter's files to others, leading to increased overhead and security concerns regarding malicious content and plagiarism.
Innovation Solution
The system allows collectors to create a collection folder with customizable settings, enabling limited submitter rights, malicious content detection, plagiarism scanning, facial/object recognition, and administrative controls, ensuring secure and organized file collection and submission management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a teacher provides a single online storage folder for all students to submit homework, then file collection efficiency is improved, but students can access and view each other's submissions which creates security and privacy issues
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the collection folder into isolated submission spaces where each submitter can only access their own files. The folder structure is divided into private submission areas rather than a shared space, allowing efficient collection in one location while preventing cross-access between submitters.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary access control mechanism that mediates between the need for centralized collection and individual privacy. The access control system acts as a gatekeeper that allows efficient file deposition while blocking unauthorized viewing of other submitters' files.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a teacher creates individual folders for each student to prevent access to others' submissions, then security and privacy are improved, but overhead and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple individual submission spaces into a single collection folder structure. Rather than managing separate folders for each student, the system combines them into one organized folder where isolation is achieved through access controls rather than physical separation, reducing management overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The collection folder serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a centralized collection point for all submissions, maintains individual privacy through access controls, and provides efficient management through a single interface. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate management of individual folders.
3Ease of operation
If submitters are given access to view all files in the collection folder, then ease of operation is improved, but malicious content and plagiarism risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different access qualities to different users within the same collection folder. Each submitter is granted local access rights that allow them to view and manage only their own submissions, while the folder structure maintains uniform organization. This localized access quality prevents plagiarism and malicious content while preserving operational ease.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If collectors must access individual folders to review each student's submission, then submission privacy is maintained, but time and productivity are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary access control layer that enables collectors to efficiently navigate and review submissions within a single folder interface. The access control mechanism acts as a mediator that presents submissions in an organized manner while maintaining privacy boundaries, eliminating the need to manually access separate folders.
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AI summary
A content management system for collecting files from one or more submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder in response to a public file request. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can include uploading rights and prohibiting a submitter from viewing files that other submitters associated with the collection folder submitted. Thus, the collection folder is able to store files from the one or more submitters, but prevent them from viewing other's submissions.