Digital Vault Access Control Automation via Life Event Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Household members face challenges in managing and organizing various types of data, including scheduling, communications, and personal records, with difficulties in synchronizing information across different devices and updating access rights as family relationships and life events change.
Innovation Solution
A digital vault system that automatically manages content ownership and access rights based on life events detected through scanned documents, such as marriage, divorce, or death certificates, using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and user-configurable rules, allowing for secure and efficient storage and sharing of data across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual updates of access rights are implemented, then access control can be maintained, but time consumption and operational complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-defines access rights templates and rules for different life events (marriage, divorce, death, birth) before they occur. When a life event is detected through scanned documents, the corresponding access rights are automatically applied without requiring manual configuration at the moment of change, thus reducing time consumption while maintaining reliable access control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects life events by scanning and processing documents (certificates, cards, invoices) and self-updates access rights based on predefined rules. This eliminates the need for manual intervention in updating access control settings, significantly reducing the time and effort required while ensuring consistent and reliable access management.
2Stability of the object's composition
If manual synchronization of information across devices is performed, then data consistency can be achieved, but operational complexity and time requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically synchronizes information across multiple devices by detecting life events and propagating updated access rights and data permissions without requiring manual synchronization operations. The appliance and connected devices self-update to maintain data consistency, eliminating the need for users to manually coordinate synchronization across devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors for life events through document scanning and automatically triggers synchronization processes when changes are detected. This feedback mechanism ensures that data consistency is maintained across devices by automatically responding to changes, rather than requiring periodic manual synchronization checks.
3Reliability
If comprehensive access control rules are implemented, then security is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments access control into distinct templates and rules based on specific life events (marriage, divorce, death, birth, etc.). Each life event has its own predefined access rights template, which simplifies the overall system structure by breaking down comprehensive access control into manageable, event-specific segments rather than requiring a single complex rule set.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates universal access rights templates that can be applied across multiple scenarios and devices. A single template defined for a particular life event can be automatically applied to multiple digital assets and devices, reducing system complexity by avoiding the need to create individual access rules for each asset-device combination.
4Productivity
If automated document processing is implemented, then time for manual updates is reduced, but technical complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual mechanical processes (physical document review and manual access rights configuration) with automated optical character recognition (OCR) and pattern matching algorithms. The appliance scans documents, automatically extracts relevant information using OCR technology, and triggers appropriate access rights changes without human intervention, significantly improving productivity while containing technical complexity through standardized processing workflows.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Simplifies the task of updating access rights and managing digital content by automating changes based on life events, ensuring secure and timely access to information within households, reducing the burden of manual updates and improving data organization.
Implementation Method 1
an optical character recognition module to detect the text
Data Source
AI summary
A multi-purpose appliance for providing a wide variety of functions, e.g., home management, device management and synchronization, archiving and distributing electronic copies of photos and/or film images and/or other services such as video conferencing is described. In various embodiments data is stored in a digital vault. The owner of stored content can set access rules and/or grant access to other individuals in a group, e.g., a family group. Content can be and sometimes is organized into categories with each category corresponding to a different type of information, e.g., medical information, personal information, calendar information, legal records family photos, etc. An owner of content can specify their relationships to another individual, e.g., another family member and have access and ownership rules apply based on the relationship to the owner of the content and/or specific user specified rules. Content is automatically added to the digital store, e.g., in response to the content being scanned or entered electronically by the owner. In response to detecting a life event, e.g., based on information in a scanned document, ownership and/or access rights to content are automatically updated to reflect the effect of the detected life event. For example a marriage may result in an automatic change to joint ownership status and/or a death may result in a change of ownership while a child leaving a house and moving to an apartment may result in an automatic restriction from obtaining access to some household financial information while the child is still allowed to access family photos.