Limited User Profile for Restricted Entities
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional social networking systems face difficulties in associating entities, such as children under a certain age or pets, with content, as they cannot maintain user profiles, leading to challenges in content retrieval and connection establishment between users and these entities.
Innovation Solution
A social networking system allows users to create limited user profiles for entities that do not meet the criteria for a standard user profile, using face analysis algorithms to determine characteristics, and specifying permissions and privacy settings, enabling association with content and gradual permission increases as the entity meets criteria, such as reaching a minimum age.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the social networking system enforces terms of service limiting user profile creation to users meeting certain criteria (e.g., minimum age), then user profile security and compliance are improved, but entities unable to meet criteria (e.g., children under 13, pets) cannot establish profiles or connections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a limited user profile as an intermediary mechanism that allows entities unable to meet standard user profile criteria (such as children under 13 or pets) to be associated with content. The limited user profile acts as a mediator between the entity and the content association system, enabling tagging and content linking without requiring the entity to have full user profile capabilities. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining terms of service compliance while extending content association functionality to restricted entities.
2Measurement precision
If conventional user profiles are required for content association, then user identity verification is improved, but content retrieval and connection establishment for non-user entities becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the user profile functionality into two distinct types: full user profiles for entities meeting all criteria, and limited user profiles for entities that cannot meet standard criteria. This segmentation allows the system to maintain strict identity verification for regular users while creating a simplified profile structure for entities like young children or pets. The limited user profile contains only essential identification information needed for content association, making the process easier while preserving verification integrity for eligible users.
3Adaptability or versatility
If limited user profiles are created for entities unable to meet user profile criteria, then content association capability is improved, but system complexity increases due to additional permission management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by granting different permission levels to different profile types within the same system. Limited user profiles have a restricted set of permissions tailored specifically to their needs (content association and retrieval), while full user profiles maintain comprehensive permissions. This localized permission structure allows the system to handle diverse entity types with appropriate access levels without requiring a complete overhaul of the permission management architecture, thus managing complexity while enhancing adaptability.
4Ease of operation
If full permissions are granted to all user profiles, then user functionality is improved, but security and privacy risks increase for vulnerable entities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic permission management where limited user profiles start with restricted permissions and can potentially transition to full user profiles as entities meet the required criteria. For example, a child's limited user profile has minimal permissions until they reach the minimum age requirement, at which point the profile can be upgraded to a full user profile with complete functionality. This dynamic approach ensures vulnerable entities receive only the permissions necessary for their current status, reducing privacy risks while maintaining functionality progression.
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AI summary
A social networking system maintains a limited user profile associated with a user of the social networking system who does not satisfy one or more criteria for the social networking system to maintain a user profile. The limited user profile includes information describing the user and allows the user to be associated with limited types of interactions with the social networking system. An administrator is associated with the limited user profile and may modify information associated with the limited user profile as well as authorize or deny interactions involving the limited user profile. When the user satisfies criteria for the social networking system maintaining a user profile, the social networking system generates a user profile based on information in the limited user profile and prior interactions involving the limited user profile.