Consolidation Server for Centralized Access Rights Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies in managing and modifying access rights to multiple apps, as existing methods require accessing individual in-app interfaces, leading to time consumption, bandwidth usage, and battery drain.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that utilizes a consolidation server to centrally manage and securely consolidate access rights granted by users to multiple apps, allowing users to modify access rights efficiently through a single interface, reducing bandwidth and power consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users access each in-app interface individually to modify access rights, then access rights can be modified, but time consumption and bandwidth usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates access rights management for multiple apps into a single centralized interface. Instead of requiring users to access each app's individual interface separately, the system merges all access rights controls into one unified location where users can manage permissions across multiple applications simultaneously, thereby reducing time consumption and operational complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mediator component that acts as an intermediary between users and multiple apps. This mediator consolidates access rights information from various apps and presents it through a unified interface, allowing users to modify permissions in one place while the mediator handles the distribution of changes to relevant applications, thus eliminating the need to access each app individually
2Ease of operation
If users access each in-app interface individually to modify access rights, then access rights can be modified, but bandwidth and battery power are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate communication sessions into a single consolidated interface for access rights management. By allowing users to modify permissions for multiple apps in one location, the system reduces the number of separate network communications and device operations required, thereby decreasing bandwidth consumption and battery power usage compared to accessing each app's interface individually
3Loss of time
If a centralized interface is used to manage access rights for multiple apps, then time and bandwidth are saved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an intermediary component that manages the complexity of coordinating access rights across multiple applications. This intermediary handles the backend logic of consolidating permission data, processing user modifications, and distributing updates to relevant apps, thereby maintaining a simple user-facing interface while managing system complexity internally through the mediator's coordination mechanisms
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method of securely controlling access to data, the method comprising a consolidation server: creating and securely storing a consolidated file labelled by a user device ID, comprising: a first record comprising a first app ID and a first account ID, and a second record comprising a second app ID and a second account ID; transmitting encrypted data, comprising the consolidated file, to the user device; receiving encrypted data indicating a request to modify the first record from the user device; and responsive thereto: modifying the first record according to the request to modify the first record and securely storing a resulting modified first record; and transmitting to the first issuer server encrypted data, comprising the first app ID and the first account ID, indicating an instruction to modify the first app's access rights to data relating to the first account according to the request.