Selective Message Sharing Interface with Server-Mediated Approval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current instant messaging and social networking services lack a streamlined interface for sharing multiple items of content, making it cumbersome and insecure, particularly for sensitive information, as users can freely forward messages without limitations.
Innovation Solution
A user terminal apparatus with a communicator and processor that displays messages in individually selectable modes, allows for group selection, and includes options for sharing with specific targets, setting time limits, and access counts, while requiring approval from the original sender for message sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users can freely forward messages without limitations, then ease of operation is improved, but security is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary between the sender and receiver of forwarded messages. When a user forwards a message, the server intercepts it, verifies the original sender's permission through a share approval request, and only delivers it if approved. This mediator role maintains security while enabling convenient forwarding.
2Reliability
If multiple messages are shared one by one, then security control is improved, but productivity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple individual message sharing operations into a single batch sharing operation. Users can select multiple messages at once and forward them together, and the server processes them as one unified share approval request, maintaining security control while dramatically improving efficiency.
3Ease of operation
If a streamlined interface for sharing multiple content items is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that handles the complex processing logic for batch message sharing, verification, and approval workflows. This allows the user terminal to maintain a simple, streamlined interface while the server manages the underlying system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A user terminal and a control method thereof are provided. The user terminal includes a communicator configured to communicate with a server; a display configured to display a message screen including a plurality of messages exchanged between the user terminal and the server; and a processor configured to control the display to display the plurality of messages on the message screen in an individually selectable manner, and based on at least one message of the plurality of messages being selected on the message screen and at least one share target, with which to share the at least some of the plurality of messages, being selected, control the communicator to transmit, to the server, information regarding the at least one message of the plurality of messages and the at least one share target.