Cross-Platform Ethical Screen Management for Precise Access Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems struggle to implement ethical screens across multiple software platforms effectively, particularly in law, accounting, and consulting firms, due to the difficulty in preventing employees from unintentionally accessing competitor client information when using diverse software platforms.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that enables ethical screens to be created and implemented across different software platforms without requiring users to navigate into each platform, using a central server to generate ethical screen parameters, access application tables to determine users, and apply these parameters using user identifications or passwords, thereby restricting access to sensitive information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If ethical screens are implemented manually across each software platform, then access control precision is improved, but device complexity and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess control precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the ethical screen implementation by creating separate application tables for different software platforms (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) while maintaining a centralized management structure. Each platform's access control is handled independently through platform-specific tables that map users to ethical screens, allowing precise control per platform without requiring a complete redesign for each application.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary components including a centralized ethical screen management system, application tables that act as mapping layers between users and platforms, and automated assignment mechanisms. These intermediaries translate high-level ethical screen definitions into platform-specific access control rules, eliminating the need for manual configuration across each software platform while maintaining precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If ethical screens are configured individually for each user and platform, then access control reliability is improved, but productivity and time efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess control reliabilityVSAvoidscreen implementation efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring application tables that map users to ethical screens before actual access control is needed. The centralized management system allows ethical screens to be defined once and automatically assigned to relevant users across multiple platforms in advance, eliminating the need for repeated manual configuration and ensuring reliable access control from the outset.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a universal ethical screen management system that can apply the same ethical screen across multiple different software platforms simultaneously. A single ethical screen definition can be universally applied to Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint through the centralized system, which automatically generates the necessary access control rules for each platform, dramatically improving implementation efficiency while maintaining reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Object-affected harmful factors

If comprehensive ethical screens are applied across all software platforms, then information security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to navigation complexity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation securityVSAvoiduser operation simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts the complex ethical screen configuration and management functions from the individual software platforms and consolidates them into a centralized ethical screen management system. Users interact only with this simplified interface to create and manage ethical screens, while the system automatically handles the complex task of applying these screens across multiple platforms, thereby maintaining strong security without compromising ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service functionality where the automated assignment mechanisms and application tables automatically match users to appropriate ethical screens based on their roles and the matters they are working on. This eliminates the need for manual intervention or complex user navigation to configure ethical screens, as the system performs these tasks autonomously while maintaining comprehensive security coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20260044619A1Systems and methods for creating and implementing ethical screens across different software platforms

Publication Date: 2026.02.12 SHAABAN AHMED FAROUK

AI summary

Systems and methods for creating and implementing ethical screens across different software platforms are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a method for implementing an ethical screen across a plurality of different software platforms includes receiving ethical screen inputs regarding a conflict between a first client and a second client, generating ethical screen parameters based on the ethical screen inputs, accessing at least one reference table to determine a plurality of users corresponding to the ethical screen parameters, and implementing the ethical screen across the plurality of different platforms using a plurality of user identifications or passwords corresponding to the plurality of users.