Decentralized Data Management for Social Networking Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current social networking methods require users to register with a service, entrusting their personal data to a centralized database, which limits user control and privacy, and prevents communication with unregistered individuals.
Innovation Solution
A decentralized data processing system that allows users to manage their personal data across various datastores without a centralized database, enabling electronic social networking through message-based data transfer and access control, allowing users to connect and share information without relying on a centralized service.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a centralized database is used to manage personal data in social networking, then data management and access control are simplified, but user control and privacy are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized database into distributed datastores, with each user maintaining their own personal datastore. This segmentation allows users to retain control over their personal data while still enabling social networking functionality through selective data sharing via data directives.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users register with a social networking service, then social connections and data sharing are facilitated, but user privacy and data autonomy are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables users to self-manage their personal data through local datastores and data directives without requiring registration with a centralized service. Users autonomously control what personal data to share and with whom, eliminating the need to surrender data autonomy to a social networking platform.
3Ease of operation
If personal data is stored in a centralized database, then data access and sharing are simplified, but user security and trust are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized database into distributed datastores, with each user maintaining their own personal datastore. This segmentation allows users to retain control over their personal data while still enabling social networking functionality through selective data sharing via data directives.
4Adaptability or versatility
If a centralized social networking service is used, then network effects and connectivity are enhanced, but user autonomy and data sovereignty are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables users to self-manage their personal data through local datastores and data directives without requiring registration with a centralized service. Users autonomously control what personal data to share and with whom, eliminating the need to surrender data autonomy to a social networking platform.
Data Source
AI summary
A receiving user receives an electronic message from an originating user such that the electronic message contains a data directive that requests a data transfer to/from the receiving user and the originating user. In response to receiving the electronic message, access privileges for the originating user are determined at the receiving computer with respect to access privilege parameters that have been specified by the receiving user. One or more remote and/or local datastores are accessed in order to read and/or write data in accordance with the determined access privileges and the requested data transfer. A response message may be returned to the originating user. One or more new request messages may be sent by the receiving user to other users, wherein each new request message includes the data directive.