Dynamic Author Privilege Adjustment in Content Management Systems

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content management systems lack dynamic adjustment of access control based on user experience, leading to rigid and inflexible solutions that require significant administrator effort to update privileges as users gain experience.

Innovation Solution

A content modification mechanism that checks modification contracts for components, incorporating an author feedback mechanism, author profile updates, and a similarity policy to dynamically adjust author privileges based on their history and experience, ensuring only authorized users can modify content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If content management systems use static role-based access control, then initial security and access control are established, but the system cannot dynamically adjust to user experience growth, requiring significant administrator work to update privileges

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedynamic adjustment of user privilegesVSAvoidadministrator work to update privileges

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system transitions from static role-based access control to dynamic access control where user privileges automatically adjust based on accumulated experience metrics. The modification contract mechanism dynamically evaluates user capability against component complexity, allowing the system to adapt access rights in real-time without administrator intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service through automatic experience tracking and privilege adjustment. Users accumulate experience metrics through their modification history, and the system automatically uses these metrics to determine appropriate access rights, eliminating the need for administrators to manually update user privileges as users gain experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If content management systems allow broad modification rights, then users can freely modify content, but unauthorized or inexperienced users may make harmful changes to the repository

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser ability to modify contentVSAvoidprotection against unauthorized changes

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback through experience metrics that track user modification history, success rates, and contribution quality. These metrics provide continuous feedback about user capability, which the modification contract mechanism uses to dynamically adjust access rights, ensuring users gain modification privileges as they demonstrate competence.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary evaluation by assessing user experience metrics against modification contract requirements before allowing content changes. This preliminary check ensures that only users with sufficient demonstrated capability can modify specific components, preventing unauthorized changes while enabling qualified users to contribute.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If content management systems implement strict access control, then unauthorized changes are prevented, but experienced users may face unnecessary restrictions when modifying content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontrol over content modificationsVSAvoidflexibility for experienced users

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameter of access control from fixed role-based permissions to dynamic experience-based permissions. The modification contract mechanism evaluates multiple parameters including user experience metrics, component complexity, and modification type to determine appropriate access rights, allowing experienced users to gain flexibility while maintaining reliability through continuous evaluation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8095556B2Controlling modification of components in a content management system

Publication Date: 2012.01.10 DOMO

AI summary

A content management system (CMS) includes a content modification mechanism that checks a modification contract corresponding to a component in the repository, and determines if all relevant criteria in the modification contract corresponding to the component are satisfied before making changes to or allowing reuse of a component in the repository. The modification contract may specify a profile of authors that are allowed to modify the corresponding component. The content management system includes an author profile update mechanism that monitors modifications by authors to components in the repository, and automatically adjusts a profile of each author according to modifications made by the author. In this manner the rank of authors is automatically adjusted and the modification of components is controlled in a way that allows modification by those who are authorized yet restricts modification by those who are not authorized.