Information Processing Apparatus Automates User Registration

Solution Overview

Problem

Administrators face inconvenience in constantly approving users to access data, as this process is repetitive and time-consuming, especially when dealing with unregistered users.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that automates the approval process by registering unregistered users upon initial request and allowing them to access data without subsequent administrator approval, once registered, while maintaining security controls.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the administrator needs to approve a disclosee every time data is disclosed, then security control is improved, but administrative burden and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity controlVSAvoidadministrative time consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration of the disclosee with the administrator before the actual data disclosure occurs. Once registered, the disclosee can access data without requiring repeated approvals for each disclosure event, thus reducing administrative time while maintaining security through initial verification

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing registered users to access data autonomously without requiring continuous administrator intervention. The registration process establishes trust once, and subsequent access events occur automatically without repeated human approval, reducing administrative burden while maintaining security controls

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If the administrator approves every disclosee request, then access security is improved, but operational efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess securityVSAvoidoperational efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration of the disclosee with the administrator before the actual data disclosure occurs. Once registered, the disclosee can access data without requiring repeated approvals for each disclosure event, thus reducing administrative time while maintaining security through initial verification

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing registered users to access data autonomously without requiring continuous administrator intervention. The registration process establishes trust once, and subsequent access events occur automatically without repeated human approval, reducing administrative burden while maintaining security controls

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If manual approval process is implemented for each disclosure, then security verification is improved, but process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity verificationVSAvoidprocess complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration of the disclosee with the administrator before the actual data disclosure occurs. Once registered, the disclosee can access data without requiring repeated approvals for each disclosure event, thus reducing administrative time while maintaining security through initial verification

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing registered users to access data autonomously without requiring continuous administrator intervention. The registration process establishes trust once, and subsequent access events occur automatically without repeated human approval, reducing administrative burden while maintaining security controls

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12141305B2Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

Publication Date: 2024.11.12 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive, from a user, entry of an access right granting request to grant another user a right to access data included in managed data; where the other user is an unregistered user who hasn't been registered yet in a database, receive entry of information on the other user, receive entry of approval of the other user by an administrator who manages the managed data, register the other user in the database on a basis of the approval, and permit the other user to access the data, and in a case where the other user has been already registered in the database on a basis of past approval by the administrator, permit the other user to access the data without entry of the approval by the administrator received after the receipt of the entry of the access right granting request.