Cross-Platform Collaboration System Credential Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current collaboration systems face friction due to differences in platforms and user credentials between content management systems (CMS) and third-party collaboration systems, leading to difficulties in seamless integration and effective sharing of files and folders.
Innovation Solution
The development of techniques for automatically generating a folder and file hierarchy in a CMS based on features of a third-party collaboration system, enabling seamless integration by reconciling users and features across platforms through data organization, communication paths, and module interrelationships.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a content management system and third-party collaboration systems operate on different platforms with different user credentials, then each system maintains its own independence and security model, but integration between systems becomes difficult and friction occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer that translates between different platform credentials and permission models. This mediator enables seamless integration between CMS and third-party systems by handling credential mapping and permission translation, allowing users to access resources across platforms without direct credential sharing while maintaining system independence and security boundaries.
2Reliability
If manual integration methods are used between CMS and third-party systems, then system independence is maintained, but user friction increases and collaboration efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing credential mappings, permission translations, and access relationships between different platforms. This preparatory work is done in advance so that when users need to collaborate across systems, the integration infrastructure is already in place, eliminating manual integration steps and enabling immediate seamless collaboration while preserving system independence.
3Reliability
If different permission models are used across platforms, then each system maintains its own security policies, but mapping and reconciling permissions becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a permission mapping intermediary that translates between different permission models used by CMS and third-party systems. This mediator layer handles the complexity of permission reconciliation by maintaining translation rules and mapping relationships, allowing each system to enforce its own security policies independently while enabling cross-system access control without requiring complex direct integration between permission models.
Data Source
AI summary
Internet communications between a content management system that stores a plurality of content objects and a third-party system is established. A hierarchy at the third-party system is determined, and a file and folder content object hierarchy at the content management system is generated based on the determined hierarchy at the third-party system. Users of the content management system and users of the third-party system are reconciled by comparing attributes of users of the third-party system with attributes of users of the content management system. Permissions pertaining to user accessed to content objects at the content management system are reconciled with permissions of the third-party system. Reconciled access permissions are applied to content objects of the generated hierarchy at the content management system. Some of the access permissions that are applied to the content object hierarchy of the content management system are more restrictive than the permissions of the third-party system.