Data Center Asset Privacy System for Multi-Tenant Video Obscuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
In multi-tenant data centers, existing systems fail to effectively obscure assets of other customers from view, compromising privacy and security for tenants, and often require on-site operator visits for asset monitoring.
Innovation Solution
An asset privacy system that receives input video feeds from data centers, identifies unauthorized assets, and generates output video feeds that obscure these assets, ensuring only authorized customers can view their own assets, using techniques like image modification and area obscuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If video feeds from data centers are made accessible to customers for asset monitoring, then operational efficiency improves and on-site visits reduce, but security and privacy are compromised as customers can view other customers' assets
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by customizing the video feed content for each customer based on their specific authorization level. Each customer receives a video feed with visibility permissions tailored to their role - customers can only view assets they are authorized to access. This is achieved by implementing customer-specific filtering rules that selectively obscure or display different portions of the data center environment, thus maintaining security while enabling remote monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the video feed into multiple customizable views based on customer authorization. Instead of providing a single unified video feed, the system divides the data center view into multiple segments or layers, each corresponding to different asset types or areas. Customers receive segmented video feeds showing only their authorized portions, effectively separating visible assets by customer permission levels while maintaining a complete underlying video stream.
2Reliability
If all data center assets are made visible in video feeds, then complete monitoring capability is achieved, but unauthorized access to other customers' assets occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component - the video feed processing system with customer authorization logic - that sits between the data center cameras and customer display devices. This intermediary automatically filters and customizes video content based on customer permission levels, preventing unauthorized asset visibility while maintaining complete monitoring coverage. The system acts as a mediator that preserves monitoring reliability for authorized assets without exposing unauthorized ones.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements local quality by applying different visibility properties to different assets within the same video feed. Each asset or area in the data center can be independently configured with specific customer authorization rules. This allows the system to maintain complete monitoring capability for all assets while selectively controlling which customers can view which specific assets, thereby preventing unauthorized access while preserving comprehensive monitoring.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If customized video feeds are generated for each customer with selective obscuration, then security and privacy are enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by implementing a single multi-functional video processing system that handles multiple customers' customized video feeds simultaneously. Rather than creating separate physical systems for each customer, the system uses a universal processing platform that dynamically generates customized video feeds for each customer based on their authorization level. This universal system manages customer-specific filtering rules, asset visibility control, and video stream customization in one integrated platform, reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes parameter changes by dynamically adjusting video feed parameters such as visibility, obscuration levels, and accessible areas based on customer authorization parameters. The system modifies video stream properties in real-time or pre-configured bases, changing which portions of the data center are visible to each customer. This parameter-based approach allows flexible security control without requiring complex physical modifications to the video capture or transmission infrastructure.
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AI summary
A method includes receiving, by an asset privacy system, an input video feed that includes images of one or more assets located within a data center, identifying, by the asset privacy system, one or more corresponding assets for the images of the one or more assets, determining, by the asset privacy system, an asset of the one or more assets a customer is not authorized to view, and generating, from the input video feed, by the asset privacy system based at least on the determining, an output video feed that does not include images of the asset the customer is not authorized to view and that does include images of at least one other asset of the one or more assets.