Invitation Architecture for Entity Relationship Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current techniques for establishing and managing relationships between entities, such as educational institutions and enterprises, require extensive manual configuration and are cumbersome, making it difficult to modify permissions and responsibilities associated with these relationships.
Innovation Solution
An architecture that utilizes invitations, generated from pre-configured templates, to simplify the establishment of relationships between entities, allowing users to accept or decline invitations, authenticate, and agree to policies, thereby enabling specific permissions and access to resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual configuration techniques are used to establish relationships between entities, then relationships can be established with proper permissions and responsibilities, but the process requires extensive manual effort and is cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring relationship templates that define permissions and responsibilities in advance. These templates are stored in a database and can be automatically applied when establishing relationships, eliminating the need for extensive manual configuration at the time of relationship creation. The system retrieves and applies appropriate templates automatically, reducing manual effort while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by creating reusable relationship templates that can be replicated multiple times. Instead of manually configuring each relationship from scratch, the system copies pre-defined template configurations to establish new relationships. This copying mechanism preserves the accuracy of permission and responsibility definitions while dramatically reducing the manual effort required for each new relationship establishment.
2Reliability
If manual configuration techniques are used to establish relationships, then relationships can be created, but it is difficult to make changes to the relationship once established
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making relationship configurations modifiable and adaptable after establishment. The system allows users to modify relationship properties, permissions, and responsibilities by updating the underlying template or directly editing relationship attributes. This dynamic capability enables relationships to evolve over time while maintaining the structured integrity provided by templates, thus improving flexibility without sacrificing configuration accuracy.
3Reliability
If extensive manual configuration is required to establish relationships, then proper permissions and responsibilities can be defined, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining permission and responsibility configurations in relationship templates before they are needed. These templates contain all necessary permission settings, role definitions, and responsibility assignments that have been carefully configured in advance. When a relationship needs to be established, the system automatically applies the appropriate template, retrieving pre-configured permission settings and applying them to the new relationship. This eliminates the need to manually configure permissions and responsibilities at the time of relationship creation, significantly improving productivity while maintaining the accuracy of permission configurations.
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AI summary
Techniques for invitations for establishing relationships are described. In at least some embodiments, an architecture is implemented which provides simple and integrated ways for establishing relationships between various entities. The architecture includes invitations that can be used to invite users to establish relationships with entities. A user that receives an invitation can interact with the invitation, such as to accept or decline an invitation to establish a relationship with an entity. If a user accepts an invitation, a relationship can be established between the user and an inviting entity. In at least some embodiments, the relationship can enable the user to perform various actions and/or access resources associated with the entity.