Personalized Content Aggregator with Segmented Access Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack an adequate method for users to specify and manage access to content, particularly in controlled environments where confidentiality and efficient search, grouping, and filtering of large amounts of content are necessary.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for curating electronic content that allows users to aggregate, filter, and rearrange content elements, creating new containers with specified access rights, enabling flexible content management and controlled access through a visual interface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If content is aggregated from multiple sources and made publicly accessible, then content sharing and broadcasting capabilities are improved, but access control and confidentiality management deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent sharing capabilityVSAvoidaccess control
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments content access by creating distinct container types (public containers vs. private containers) with different access control levels. Users can divide their content into separately managed groups, allowing some content to be publicly shared while other content remains restricted to specific audiences, thus resolving the contradiction between content sharing and access control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different access control qualities to different portions of content. Each container can have its own access control settings, allowing users to specify which users or groups can access particular content. This local differentiation enables simultaneous public broadcasting of some content while maintaining confidential access control for other content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Quantity of substance

If large amounts of content are stored and made accessible, then content availability is improved, but search efficiency and content organization deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent volumeVSAvoidsearch efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent organizes large volumes of content into smaller, manageable containers that can be independently searched and managed. This segmentation allows users to apply specific search criteria and filtering rules to individual containers rather than searching through all content at once, significantly improving search efficiency while maintaining the ability to store and access large amounts of content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent adds organizational dimensions by introducing container hierarchies and access control layers. Content is not just stored flatly but organized into nested container structures with multiple levels of grouping and filtering capabilities, enabling efficient navigation and search through large content volumes by providing multiple organizational perspectives.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Ease of operation

If content is organized into fixed chronological sequences, then content flow is improved, but flexibility in content curation and reorganization deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent flowVSAvoidcontent curation flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic container structures that can be easily reconfigured. Users can add, remove, reorder, and modify container contents without fixed chronological constraints. The system allows runtime modification of container compositions and access control settings, enabling flexible content curation while maintaining smooth content flow through the interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates universal container structures that can serve multiple functions simultaneously - acting as both chronological content feeds and thematically organized collections. The same container can be accessed and curated in different ways depending on user needs, providing versatility in content organization while maintaining ease of operation through a unified interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9946797B2Personalized aggregator for organizing and publishing public and private content
Publication Date: 2018.04.17 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A system, method and computer program product for allowing users to organize and selectively publish content of interest, with freedom to rearrange and curate information in a desired presentation format. The content may be generated by the user or other sources, allowing the user to moderate and organize the content that the user aggregates. The content (e.g. social network posts, online news, SMS messages) may be publicly available for other users to contribute with new information, or used as source for their own content of interest; it can also be shared only with select users or communities (registered or not), or be kept private. Publishing channels might comprise, for instance, web portals or public displays. Filters may be applied to automatically select and aggregate content from several sources. Methods are implemented to organize content by creating, discarding, replicating and reformatting information via a display interface.