Content Access Prediction for Virtual Communities

Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in sharing content across virtual communities as they are unaware whether recipients have access to the various layers of content, leading to potential access denial and significant effort in requesting access permissions.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that predicts recipient access likelihoods and submits access requests to content owners, determining recipient access and prediction scores based on social graphs, public information, and content interests to streamline content sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users manually request access permissions for each recipient, then access control accuracy is improved, but time consumption and effort increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess control accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically determining recipient access likelihoods and prediction scores before content sharing occurs. It pre-evaluates multiple content layers and recipients, then submits access requests in advance, eliminating the need for manual permission requests after content is shared.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically determining access likelihoods, prediction scores, and submitting access requests without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by processing content sharing operations autonomously based on predicted access patterns.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If users manually request access permissions for each recipient, then access control accuracy is improved, but operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess control accuracyVSAvoidoperational effort

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically determining recipient access likelihoods and prediction scores before content sharing occurs. It pre-evaluates multiple content layers and recipients, then submits access requests in advance, eliminating the need for manual permission requests after content is shared.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically determining access likelihoods, prediction scores, and submitting access requests without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by processing content sharing operations autonomously based on predicted access patterns.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Loss of time

If the system predicts access likelihoods and automates access requests, then time and effort are reduced, but measurement precision of access prediction is required

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime consumptionVSAvoidaccess prediction accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses feedback mechanisms where content owners receive predicted access likelihoods and can adjust access decisions accordingly. The system continuously learns from actual access patterns and refines its prediction models, improving measurement precision over time while maintaining automation benefits.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9843546B2Access predictions for determining whether to share content

Publication Date: 2017.12.12 BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECH CO LTD

AI summary

Some users (also called sharers) desire to share content with recipients (also called recipients) over a virtual community or other computerized means. Some of the content to be shared (first-order content) may include links, hyperlinks, or other references (links) to additional content (each individually a second-order content). These content layers may continue indefinitely and the content layers may contain links both within and without the domain or virtual community of the first-order content. A sharer may be unaware of whether various recipients have access to any of the various layers of content (first-order or otherwise). Embodiments of the present invention transmit the likelihood for individual recipients to access various layers of content to the sharer.