Mobile Image Manager for Selective Corporate Data Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods fail to selectively manage and secure work product images on mobile devices, often requiring deletion of entire photo galleries, which includes both personal and corporate content, without a way to distinguish and protect employer-owned information.
Innovation Solution
An image manager is installed and executed on mobile devices to analyze and classify images, identifying work product images based on specific elements such as whiteboards, charts, and machine-readable codes, and enforce security protocols, including encryption and deletion, while ignoring non-work product images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the entire photo gallery is wiped to remove work product images, then corporate property is protected, but all user photos including personal images are deleted
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the photo gallery into work product images and personal images by analyzing image content for corporate identifiers (logos, watermarks, metadata). This segmentation enables selective deletion of only work product images while preserving personal photos, resolving the contradiction between protecting corporate property and avoiding loss of personal images.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary analysis layer that examines image content before deletion. This intermediary process identifies work product images through content analysis (detecting corporate logos, watermarks, metadata) and creates a separate deletion queue, allowing selective removal of corporate property without affecting personal images.
2Ease of operation
If image analysis is performed to identify work product images, then selective deletion becomes possible, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis during image capture or import, tagging work product images with corporate identifiers before they are added to the gallery. This preliminary action enables rapid identification and selective deletion later without requiring time-consuming analysis at the moment of deletion.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual image-by-image review with automated content analysis using computer vision algorithms that detect corporate logos, watermarks, and metadata. This substitution of mechanical/manual processes with automated analysis reduces processing time while enabling selective deletion.
3Reliability
If security protocols are applied to all images, then corporate information is protected, but access to personal images is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies security protocols selectively only to work product images identified through content analysis, while leaving personal images accessible without restrictions. This local application of security measures protects corporate information while avoiding unauthorized restriction of personal content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments images into secured work product images and unsecured personal images based on content analysis. Work product images containing corporate identifiers are encrypted and access-controlled, while personal images remain fully accessible to the user.
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AI summary
Systems, methods and apparatuses are described herein that allow an enterprise to analyze and manage work product images that are stored on a mobile device. Employees of an enterprise may use a mobile device to store both work product images (e.g., images of sensitive or proprietary information) and non-work product images (e.g., personal images). An enterprise may desire to enforce security protocols on the work product images, but the employee may not want the security protocols applied to the non-work product images. In some embodiments, by installing and executing an image manager that is able to analyze and manage images, the enterprise can enforce security protocols on only the work product images. Such security protocols may include the prevention of unauthorized viewing of the work product image (e.g., by encrypting the work product image) or deleting any work product image from the mobile device when the employee's employment has ended.