Content Exposure Tracking via Fingerprinting
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge lies in effectively managing content exposure across multiple platforms and users in collaboration systems, where complex access management schemes and the proliferation of remote work make it difficult to track how content is consumed, leading to potential security and privacy issues.
Innovation Solution
A method that discovers content in a user environment, generates content fingerprints, and provides exposure information to a central system, allowing users to select and request exposure data across platforms and users, with the results published back to the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If complex access management schemes are implemented to protect restricted data, then security is improved, but it becomes difficult to track content consumption and determine access levels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that acts as a mediator between users and the content management infrastructure. This intermediary automatically discovers content, generates fingerprints, and tracks exposure across multiple platforms without requiring users to manually manage complex access schemes. The intermediary handles the complexity of tracking content consumption while maintaining security through automated fingerprint matching and exposure reporting.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple collaboration systems and remote access are enabled to facilitate information sharing, then information accessibility is improved, but tracking content exposure becomes increasingly difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs content fingerprinting technology that creates unique identifiers (fingerprints) for content across different platforms and systems. When content is shared across multiple collaboration systems or accessed remotely, the fingerprint is copied and tracked along with the content. This allows the system to detect and measure content exposure across diverse platforms without requiring direct integration with each individual system, thereby maintaining information accessibility while enabling effective tracking.
3Loss of information
If detailed exposure tracking is implemented across all platforms and users, then content exposure visibility is improved, but system complexity and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential identifying information (content fingerprints) from the full content and tracks these fingerprints across platforms rather than monitoring complete content copies. This extraction approach provides comprehensive exposure visibility by tracking content identification data while significantly reducing system complexity and resource requirements compared to monitoring entire content instances across all systems.
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AI summary
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system. The method includes discovering content in a user environment. The method further includes generating one or more content fingerprints on a per-content basis. The method also includes providing information sufficient to identify the one or more content fingerprints to a central computer system. Further, the method includes receiving a user selection of particular content stored in the user environment. In addition, the method includes requesting, from the central computer system, information related to a level of exposure of the particular content across a plurality of platforms and a plurality of users. Moreover, the method includes receiving exposure information for the particular content in response to the request. Additionally, the method includes publishing the exposure information to a user associated with the user environment.