Intermediation Server for Push Content Policy Enforcement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for managing push content lack effective mechanisms to enforce policies and control unwanted communications, leading to potential unauthorized content delivery to computing devices.
Innovation Solution
An intermediation server infrastructure that connects computing devices to push content servers, enforces policies by determining if push content applications are installed, sends exception messages, and manages traffic allotments to ensure compliant content delivery, including blocking unauthorized content and decrypting communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If push content servers send content directly to computing devices without intermediation, then content delivery speed is improved, but unauthorized content delivery and unwanted communications cannot be prevented
Solution Approach 1:
An intermediation server is introduced between push content servers and computing devices to enforce policies. The intermediation server receives push content from content servers, checks whether the corresponding push content application is installed on the target computing device, and only forwards authorized content. This mediator structure maintains fast delivery while ensuring reliable policy enforcement.
2Reliability
If policy enforcement mechanisms are implemented to prevent unwanted communications, then security and compliance are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The policy enforcement complexity is centralized in the intermediation server rather than distributed across multiple components. The intermediation server maintains a policy database and handles all policy checking operations, simplifying the overall system architecture while ensuring reliable policy enforcement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the intermediation server sends exception messages back to push content servers when policies are violated. This feedback loop allows the system to learn from violations and adjust behavior, improving policy enforcement reliability without requiring complex preventive measures at every point.
3Reliability
If the intermediation server checks policy for every push content message, then policy compliance is ensured, but processing time and network overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediation server performs preliminary actions by maintaining a policy database that pre-stores policy information for multiple push content servers. When push content arrives, the server can quickly check the pre-loaded policy data rather than retrieving and processing policy information in real-time, reducing processing time while maintaining compliance.
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AI summary
A method, system and apparatus for management of push content is provided. An intermediation infrastructure mediates traffic from a push content server that is addressed to a computing device. The intermediation infrastructure enforces various policies such that, for example, unwanted communications are not pushed to the computing device.