Email Link Access Rights Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Email recipients often face challenges accessing content linked in emails due to restricted access, leading to manual processes and discontinuity when seeking access permissions from the database owner.
Innovation Solution
A method that allows recipients without sufficient rights to access a remote resource by associating the link with the composer's rights, either temporarily or by modifying the link to grant necessary permissions, enabling access or attaching/embedding the content for review.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If email includes links to restricted-access resources, then content sharing capability is improved, but recipient accessibility deteriorates when recipients lack sufficient rights
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism that intercepts link clicks from recipients without sufficient rights and automatically initiates access requests through the email composer. This mediator resolves the contradiction by enabling content access without requiring manual intervention from recipients, thus maintaining both restricted resource protection and recipient accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring the email composer with the ability to automatically respond to access requests. When a recipient clicks a link, the system has already established the framework for automatic access granting, eliminating the need for recipients to manually seek permissions and reducing accessibility barriers.
2Reliability
If manual access request process is implemented, then security control is improved, but collaboration efficiency deteriorates due to displacement and discontinuity
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by enabling the email composer to automatically handle access requests without requiring manual intervention from administrators or database owners. The composer automatically responds to access requests and grants permissions, maintaining security control through automated policies while eliminating the productivity losses associated with manual access request processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where the email composer automatically receives and processes access requests from recipients, then responds by granting or denying access based on predefined policies. This automated feedback mechanism maintains security control while eliminating the displacement and discontinuity that reduce collaboration efficiency in manual processes.
3Reliability
If access rights are restricted to a specific group, then resource security is improved, but collaboration scope deteriorates by excluding some members
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies dynamics by making access rights flexible and context-dependent rather than static. Access permissions are dynamically adjusted based on the recipient's relationship to the email composer and the specific content being accessed. This allows the system to maintain resource security for restricted groups while dynamically expanding collaboration scope to include additional members who receive emails from authorized composers.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an indication of an email being generated by a composer for at least one recipient. The email includes a link to a piece of content on a remote resource and the at least one recipient does not have sufficient rights to access the remote resource. The recipient may be allowed to access the remote resource via the link using the rights of the composer.