Automated Email Identity Migration Using Relationship Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current email, identity, and file migration solutions fail to provide a robust migration of users to new platforms, struggling to identify and migrate related data and identity objects efficiently, often relying on manual and inaccurate methods.
Innovation Solution
An information handling system automatically creates collections of related accounts based on access controls, delegation attributes, and other relationship criteria, using a processing device to migrate objects between email or identity domains, reducing manual effort and minimizing organizational disruptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual methods are used to create migration lists, then flexibility and control are maintained, but accuracy and efficiency deteriorate due to human error and time consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates migration collections by analyzing relationship information from directory services and email platforms. The processor autonomously identifies objects that should migrate together based on delegation, access controls, and communication patterns without requiring manual intervention, thereby achieving both high accuracy and efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes (spreadsheets, manual list creation) with an automated computational system that queries directory services and email platforms to extract relationship information and generate migration collections automatically
2Reliability
If comprehensive relationship information is analyzed to identify related objects, then migration accuracy improves, but system complexity and processing time worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex migration task into distinct analytical components: analyzing delegation relationships, access control relationships, and communication patterns separately. Each relationship type is processed independently to identify related objects, and the results are combined to form comprehensive migration collections
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces relationship information as an intermediary data structure that mediates between the source email platform and the migration process. This intermediary contains pre-extracted relationship data from directory services, allowing the system to make accurate migration decisions without directly querying the complex source system during the migration process
3Quantity of substance
If multiple relationship criteria are used to identify related objects, then migration completeness improves, but processing overhead and computational resources worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies multiple relationship criteria (delegation, access controls, communication patterns) but implements practical limits such as maximum collection sizes and depth thresholds. This allows the system to capture the most important relationships while avoiding excessive processing of marginal cases, achieving a balance between completeness and resource consumption
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for creating collections of associated accounts for a migration process. An example system includes a processing device and memory that stores accounts in accordance with a first email, identity or file domain. The processing device may create a collection of related accounts stored in accordance with a first email, identity or file domain based on active directory information of the stored accounts and may migrate information included in the collection of accounts into a second email, identity or file domain. The collection includes one or more first-level accounts that are identified as having a relationship with a predefined root account based on a delegation attribute.