Messaging System Reserved Message Visibility Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current messaging systems lack the ability to hide specific messages, chats, or multimedia elements from unauthorized users, allowing them to be inadvertently viewed even if encrypted, and do not allow for selective visibility between senders and recipients.
Innovation Solution
A messaging system that allows users to designate certain messages, chats, or elements as 'reserved,' making them invisible until a specific access key is entered, ensuring only authorized users can view their content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If end-to-end encryption is implemented in messaging systems, then message confidentiality between sender and recipient is improved, but unauthorized users can still access and view all messages by gaining physical access to the device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments messages into two categories: visible messages and hidden reserved messages. The messaging system is divided into functional modules including a messaging module for normal communication and a reserved module for managing hidden messages with restricted access. This segmentation allows unauthorized users to see only visible messages while hidden messages remain protected without requiring full device encryption.
2Ease of operation
If all messages are made visible in the messaging system, then ease of access to information is improved, but privacy and security of sensitive information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different visibility properties to different messages within the same messaging system. Individual messages can be designated as reserved (hidden) or visible based on their sensitivity. The system maintains a message database where each message has associated metadata including its visibility status, allowing selective disclosure of information while maintaining overall system accessibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a third party user is granted access to the messaging system, then device usability is improved, but the third party can view all content including private conversations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables different users to have different viewing permissions for different messages. When a third party accesses the device, they can view visible messages but hidden reserved messages remain concealed. The system checks user credentials and message visibility settings dynamically, allowing selective access to specific content while maintaining overall system accessibility for authorized users.
4Reliability
If hidden messages are concealed from unauthorized users, then privacy protection is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional access control mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the hidden message functionality with the existing messaging system infrastructure. The reserved module integrates with the messaging module, sharing common components such as the message database, user authentication system, and display interface. This consolidation allows hidden message functionality to be added without proportionally increasing system complexity, as it leverages existing system capabilities.
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AI summary
A messaging system includes a sending device and a recipient device communicating through a central unit, a first software module loaded and executed in the sending and recipient devices, and a second software module loaded and executed in the central unit, the first and second software modules creating, managing, and exchanging: items of a first open type that include a chat, a message, or a digital element that are always visible on a screen of a device display, and items of a second reserved type that include a chat, a message, or a digital element that switch between a visible state in which they displayed, entirely or as a preview, on a specific area of the screen, and a hidden state in which they are not displayed on the screen and also do not occupy the specific area of the screen, which they occupy instead when in the visible state.