Electronic Message Privacy Control via Segmented Command Syntax
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic messaging systems lack the ability to provide personalized and secure control over the distribution of electronic messages, particularly regarding attachments, which can be forwarded without the sender's control, necessitating a solution for enhanced privacy and control features.
Innovation Solution
A method and system using an enhanced data messaging tool that allows senders to select and apply customizable privacy and control features to various portions of an electronic message, including pre-defined options for deletion time, access rights, and security features, ensuring recipients can only view, copy, forward, store, or print specific message parts based on sender-defined settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If electronic messages with attachments are sent using conventional messaging systems, then communication efficiency is improved, but sender control and privacy are lost as attachments can be forwarded without restriction
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic message is divided into multiple portions (e.g., text body, attachments, metadata), and different privacy/control settings can be applied to each portion independently. This allows the sender to segment control over different parts of the message, enabling selective privacy while maintaining overall communication efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
Different privacy and control settings are applied locally to different portions of the message. For example, attachments can have stricter control settings than the text body, or specific files within attachments can have different access rights. This local differentiation maintains communication efficiency while restoring sender control where needed.
2Ease of operation
If conventional electronic messaging is used, then ease of communication is maintained, but privacy and security control are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
Privacy and control settings are established in advance before the message is sent. The sender pre-configures encryption keys, access rights, and expiration dates for message portions, so that security measures are already in place when the message arrives at the recipient's device, eliminating the need for post-transmission security interventions.
Solution Approach 2:
An enhanced data messaging tool acts as an intermediary between the conventional messaging system and the privacy/security requirements. This tool layer introduces encryption, control settings, and privacy features without replacing the underlying communication infrastructure, thus maintaining ease of communication while adding security capabilities.
3Reliability
If selective privacy features are implemented for different message portions, then sender control is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The enhanced data messaging tool is designed as a universal platform that can apply multiple privacy and control settings to different message portions using a consistent framework. This multi-functional approach handles various privacy scenarios (encryption, expiration, access rights) through a unified system rather than requiring separate complex systems for each feature.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of fundamentally changing the messaging system architecture, the solution modifies parameters such as encryption keys, expiration dates, and access rights that can be set on message portions. These parameter changes provide sender control while maintaining compatibility with existing messaging infrastructure, thus limiting the increase in system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and system for sending electronic messages. A command syntax is embedded in an electronic message on a sender device. The electronic message is to be sent by a sender from the sender device to a user at a recipient device. The electronic message includes a data structure to which the command syntax is coupled. The command syntax comprises a text string coded to only describe and trigger one or more pre-defined selective enhanced privacy and control features for one or more portions of the data. The command syntax includes one or more commands which upon being executed at the recipient device prevent the user at the recipient device who receives the electronic message from printing the received electronic message, storing the received electronic message, copying the received electronic message, forwarding the received electronic message, and blind carbon copying the received electronic message.