Contact Information Segmentation for Social Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for sharing contact information lack integration with social media platforms, limiting the ability to segment and share contact data while allowing for private notes and micro-blogging capabilities, which are essential for collaborative and organizational contexts.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that transform contact information into social media content, enabling segmentation for sharing and non-sharing, with micro-blogging capabilities, allowing users to create and share contact information within social media environments, and maintain private notes, while synchronizing public data across users and communities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If contact information is shared with multiple users, then accessibility and collaboration are improved, but data privacy and security control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The contact information is divided into multiple segments or fields, each with independent shareability settings. Users can selectively share specific segments of contact data with different users or groups, allowing fine-grained control over what information is accessible to whom.
Solution Approach 2:
Different segments of contact information have different shareability properties assigned to them. Each segment can be marked as shareable or non-shareable independently, allowing the system to apply different access control policies to different parts of the same contact record based on local requirements.
2Productivity
If all contact information is made shareable, then collaboration efficiency is improved, but the ability to maintain private notes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Contact information is segmented into public and private portions. Public segments can be shared and collaborated upon by multiple users, while private segments (such as personal notes) remain confidential and accessible only to the contact owner, preventing loss of confidential information.
Solution Approach 2:
Private notes and sensitive information are extracted from the main contact record into a separate, protected section. This extracted private information is excluded from the sharing mechanism, allowing collaboration on public contact details while preserving the confidentiality of sensitive personal notes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If contact information is transformed into social media content, then social engagement and micro-blogging capabilities are improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The contact information system is designed to serve multiple functions: it acts as a traditional contact manager, a social media content platform, and a micro-blogging system simultaneously. By making the contact data structure multi-functional, the system avoids the complexity of maintaining separate systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges contact management functionality with social media and micro-blogging capabilities into a single integrated system. Contact records can be published as social media content, and users can add micro-blog posts to contact profiles, combining what would traditionally be separate systems into one unified platform.
Data Source
AI summary
Sharing contact information among one or more communities or individuals in a social media environment, in one aspect, may comprise creating contact information associated with contact as social media content based on input from a first user. At least a portion of the contact information may be shared with a plurality of second users via a social media like application.