Heterogeneous Document Messaging via Intermediary Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing messaging systems struggle to efficiently handle and secure the exchange of heterogeneous documents across different formats and structures in electronic messages, limiting their usability and security, especially in clinical and enterprise environments.
Innovation Solution
A messaging component that integrates with databases and data stores to select, attach, and manage heterogeneous documents by embedding unique identifiers, translating them into a common format, and employing secure encryption methods, such as split encryption keys, to ensure secure and relatable document exchange.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If heterogeneous documents are exchanged in electronic messages, then document versatility is improved, but security and reliability deteriorate due to format diversity and structural complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a messaging component as an intermediary that sits between document sources and email clients. This component handles the complexity of heterogeneous document formats by translating them into a standardized internal representation, thereby maintaining security while supporting diverse document types. The intermediary manages the translation and encryption processes without requiring the email client to directly handle complex formats.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameters of document representation by translating heterogeneous formats into a common internal format with standardized structure. This parameter transformation allows the system to maintain security through consistent encryption mechanisms while supporting diverse input formats. The translation process modifies document parameters to a standardized state before encryption and transmission.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple document formats are supported, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases due to need for multiple encoders and translators
Solution Approach 1:
The messaging component serves multiple functions within a single integrated system: it detects document formats, translates them to a common representation, encrypts them, and attaches them to messages. This universal component replaces what would otherwise require multiple separate encoders and translators, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining broad format support.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a standardized copy or representation of heterogeneous documents in a common internal format. Instead of handling each document format directly, the system translates them into a universal representation that can be uniformly processed. This copying approach simplifies the messaging component's structure by working with a single standardized format internally.
3Reliability
If documents are encrypted for security, then reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to complex encryption key management
Solution Approach 1:
The messaging component handles encryption automatically as part of its standard operation. When a user attaches documents to an email, the system self-services the encryption process by detecting the need for encryption, selecting appropriate keys, and applying encryption without requiring user intervention. This eliminates the need for users to manually manage encryption keys while maintaining strong security.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges encryption functionality with the document attachment and messaging processes. Instead of requiring separate encryption operations and key management steps, the encryption is integrated into the core messaging component, combining multiple operations into a single streamlined process that maintains security without complicating user operations.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for messaging with heterogeneous inter-related attachments. Embodiments provide messaging systems, devices and methods for electronic messaging with attachments containing, for example, documents created from a translating print driver and/or documents containing identifiers associating the documents to a subject.