Mutual Follow Switch for Access-Controlled Relationship Requests

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies face inefficiencies in establishing mutual following relationships between users requiring access permissions, particularly for users with preset attributes, leading to low efficiency in achieving association relationships.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a switch mechanism that automatically enables mutual following when a user with a preset attribute accepts a follow request from another user, by sending a second relationship establishment request if the switch is on, thereby establishing a second association relationship.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a user with preset attribute sets access permission to hide posted media content from third users, then information security is improved, but relationship establishment efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation securityVSAvoidrelationship establishment efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically sending a second relationship establishment request from the first user to the second user when the first relationship establishment request is accepted. This pre-configured automatic response mechanism eliminates the need for manual follow-back actions, thereby improving relationship establishment efficiency while maintaining access control settings.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service through the automatic relationship establishment mechanism. When the first user accepts a follow request from a second user, the system automatically initiates a reciprocal follow request without requiring additional manual intervention from the first user. This self-service approach streamlines the relationship establishment process while preserving the user's access permission settings.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If manual following operation is required for users with preset attribute, then access control precision is improved, but operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccess control precisionVSAvoidoperation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system configures a preliminary automatic response mechanism that activates when specific conditions are met (when the first user accepts the second user's follow request). This pre-set automation reduces operational complexity by eliminating manual follow-back actions while maintaining precise access control through the conditional execution logic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces dynamic behavior by making the relationship establishment process adaptive. The automatic second relationship establishment request is conditionally triggered based on whether the first user accepts the second user's request, allowing the system to dynamically adjust between automatic and manual modes while preserving access control precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP4712007A1Relationship establishment method and apparatus, device and storage medium
Publication Date: 2026.03.18 BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided are a relationship establishment method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method is applied to a first user side and comprises: in response to receiving a first relationship establishment request of a second user, determining whether a first switch corresponding to a first user is in an open state (S110), wherein the first user is a user having preset attributes, a media content work published by the user having the preset attributes is hidden from a user who has not established a first association relationship, and the first relationship establishment request is used for establishing the first association relationship from the second user to the first user; and if it is determined that the first switch is in the open state, in response to an accepting operation of the first user on the first relationship establishment request, sending a second relationship establishment request for the second user (S120), so as to establish a second association relationship from the first user to the second user.