Digital Information Relationship Capture for Permissioned Search
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital information systems struggle to capture and manage relationships among pieces of information, leading to fragmented ownership, access control issues, and conflicts between privacy and searchability, with users often unable to find or access information due to unclear permissions and changing intentions.
Innovation Solution
A framework for registering information ownership and permission intentions using a progressive symmetric permission model, allowing owners to define proactive and reactive access lists, including white, black, and grey lists, to ensure that information is searchable and accessible only by authorized users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If information is made publicly accessible and searchable, then findability is improved, but privacy and control over the information deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The permission system is segmented into multiple lists (white list, black list, grey list) that operate independently but together provide comprehensive access control. This allows fine-grained control over information visibility and access, resolving the contradiction between public findability and private control by enabling selective disclosure to different user groups.
Solution Approach 2:
The permission model is dynamic, allowing owners to change permissions over time and respond to changing circumstances. The system supports proactive (pre-defining access) and reactive (responding to requests) permission models, enabling flexible adaptation between public accessibility and private control as needed.
2Productivity
If users are given broad access to search and access information, then productivity is improved, but loss of information through unintended access increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback mechanisms where information owners are notified of access requests and can approve or deny them. This feedback loop ensures that broad search capabilities are combined with controlled access, allowing high productivity through efficient searching while preventing unintended information loss through owner-approved access only.
Solution Approach 2:
The permission system acts as an intermediary between the searcher and the information. Instead of direct access, all access requests pass through the permission mechanism which mediates based on white lists, black lists, and grey list criteria, enabling efficient search while preventing unintended access.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a complex permission system is implemented to control access, then privacy and control are improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The permission system is designed to be self-service oriented, allowing information owners to easily define and manage their own access controls without requiring complex system configuration. The proactive and reactive permission models provide intuitive interfaces for setting white lists, black lists, and grey list criteria, reducing operational complexity while maintaining strong access control.
4Adaptability or versatility
If information is scattered across multiple devices and apps, then versatility and adaptability are improved, but loss of relationships among information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges information from multiple sources and devices into a unified permission-managed framework. By consolidating access control mechanisms and maintaining consistent permission metadata across different platforms, the system preserves relationships and context that would otherwise be lost in scattered information storage.
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AI summary
A method and system to improve the computer in light of the global information network with numerous computer devices services, and apps, so that a user can capture and find information with high security and usability. The invention makes all information potentially searchable on the Internet, and distinguishes finding the existence of an object of information from its access, and the ability for a searcher to request access to an object that is not permitted, and to enable the object owner to approve requests.