Controlling-User Network Discovery in Content Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content-management systems lack mechanisms for users to collaborate effectively, and information handling systems vary in processing, storing, and communicating information, making it difficult to discover and expose controlling-user networks.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for discovering and profiling controlling-user networks within a content-management system by identifying users with permissions, generating profiles based on site activities and configurations, and exposing these networks to users through a searchable interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content-management systems allow publishing and editing from a central interface, then content can be exposed on accessible sites, but users responsible for sites cannot collaborate effectively
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments users into controlling users and collaborating users with distinct roles and permission sets. Controlling users manage site content while collaborating users contribute without full control, enabling both content publishing and effective collaboration through role-based segmentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary collaboration framework that mediates between controlling users and collaborating users. This framework enables collaboration among users responsible for sites while preserving the central interface for content publishing, resolving the contradiction between publishing capability and collaboration capability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If information handling systems vary in processing and storing information, then systems can be configured for specific uses, but it becomes difficult to discover and expose controlling-user networks
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes parameters by establishing standardized permission levels and user role definitions across varied information handling systems. This standardization enables discovery of controlling-user networks while preserving system configuration flexibility for specific uses.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that track and report user permissions, site control relationships, and collaboration patterns. This feedback enables automatic discovery and exposure of controlling-user networks across diverse system configurations, resolving the difficulty of detection.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system comprising physical computer hardware. The method includes discovering a controlling-user network for at least one user. The controlling-user network comprising a plurality of controlling users. The plurality of controlling users each control one or more sites of a content-management system. The method further includes profiling the plurality of controlling users based, at least in part, on information gleaned from sites on the content-management system controlled by the plurality of controlling users. In addition, the method includes exposing the controlling-user network to the at least one controlling user using a result of the profiling.