Identity Aggregation for Cross-Organization Collaboration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current social network collaboration platforms either function as public or isolated systems, failing to facilitate effective inter-organizational and intra-organizational collaboration while managing content access and maintaining privacy across multiple organizations.
Innovation Solution
A collaboration platform with an identity aggregator and content access manager that unifies member identities across organizations, allowing for controlled access to electronic collaboration content data, enabling inter-organizational and intra-organizational collaboration while maintaining privacy and searchability of content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If stand-alone networks are used to support collaboration within each organization, then organizational privacy and security are maintained, but inter-organizational collaboration is limited and communication occurs through ad-hoc mediums
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a federation system that acts as an intermediary between stand-alone organizational networks. This federation enables cross-organization collaboration by providing a standardized interface and communication protocol, allowing organizations to maintain their internal privacy while enabling controlled external collaboration through the mediating federation layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The federation system provides universal access mechanisms that work across multiple different organizational networks. By implementing standardized protocols and interfaces, the system enables diverse organizations to collaborate through a common platform without requiring each organization to change their internal network architecture.
2Productivity
If communications are filtered to support effective collaboration, then collaboration effectiveness is improved, but the amount of accessible content and contributors is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements granular permission systems that segment access controls to the finest level of detail. Instead of filtering out entire categories of content or contributors, the system allows individual items and specific user roles to be granted selective access permissions, enabling collaboration effectiveness while preserving access to the maximum possible content and contributors.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different access control policies to different content and contributors based on their specific characteristics and the collaboration context. Rather than uniform filtering, each content item and contributor can have customized permission settings that optimize both collaboration effectiveness and content accessibility locally.
3Ease of operation
If ad-hoc communication mediums like email and phone calls are used to work around stand-alone network limitations, then communication flexibility is maintained, but collaboration artifacts are not coherent, archived, or searchable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the flexibility of ad-hoc communication with the structure of formal collaboration systems by integrating multiple communication channels (email, messaging, file sharing) into a unified collaboration platform. This integration maintains communication flexibility while automatically archiving and organizing all artifacts in a coherent, searchable manner within the federation system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system ensures continuous archiving and organization of collaboration artifacts across all communication mediums. Rather than losing information when switching between ad-hoc tools, the federation platform continuously captures, stores, and indexes all communication content and artifacts, maintaining their coherence and searchability throughout the entire collaboration process.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for controlling access to electronic collaboration content data associated with a plurality of organizations. The system includes one or more databases storing the electronic collaboration content data. An identity aggregator receives a request for access to the electronic collaboration content data from an individual's client device and determines an internal user identifier of the individual, that represents an aggregate identity of the individual corresponding to at least one of organizational identities or external identities. A content access manager maps the internal user identifier to content permissions associated with the individual across each organization that is associated with the individual and the external content services associated with the individual. The content access manager permits access by the client device to at least a portion of the electronic data stored among the databases across each organization associated with the individual and based on the individual's content permissions.