Message Right Management for Social Platform Access Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current messaging technologies lack control over message rights after a message is sent, leading to information security issues, unnecessary message exposure, and inefficient communication due to uncontrolled access and forwarding.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a message right management method that includes verifying target users' access rights based on a message right control policy, allowing source users to control who can view or forward messages, ensuring secure access and communication efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a message is sent to a group without access control, then communication efficiency is improved and ease of operation is enhanced, but information security deteriorates and unauthorized access occurs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidinformation security
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by establishing message right control policies and verifying user access rights before allowing message access. The source user configures who can view or forward messages in advance, and the server verifies target users' rights before granting access to the message page, preventing unauthorized access before it occurs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary between the source user and target users. It receives service requests from target users, determines whether they have the corresponding message rights based on the control policy, and controls the response to these requests. This intermediary mechanism enables efficient communication while maintaining information security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If message access is unrestricted, then ease of operation is improved, but message exposure control deteriorates and privacy is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage access convenienceVSAvoidmessage exposure control
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by implementing differentiated access rights for different target users. The source user can specify that certain users have view rights while others have no rights, allowing selective control over message exposure. This enables convenient access for authorized users while preventing unauthorized exposure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of access rights by verifying whether target users have the corresponding message rights before allowing operations. The control policy defines specific rights (view, forward, etc.), and the server dynamically controls access based on these parameters, balancing convenience and privacy protection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If source users can control message rights after sending, then information security is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation securityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The server provides universal message right management functionality that handles multiple operations (viewing, forwarding, etc.) through a unified control mechanism. The message right control policy serves as a multi-functional tool that controls various aspects of message access, reducing the need for separate control systems for each operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11539687B2Message right management method, device and storage medium
Publication Date: 2022.12.27 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

A message right management method, and a device and storage medium for implementing the method, are provided. The message right management method includes obtaining a message created by a source user, and sending a message notification to a target user in a social platform. The method further includes verifying the target user when receiving a request for logging onto a message page from the target user, and controlling logon of the target user to the message page on the basis of a verification result. The method further includes, when receiving a service request of the target user with respect to the message, determining, based on a message right control policy, whether the target user has a right corresponding to a service requested by the service request, and controlling a response to the service request according to a determining result.