Organization Connect System for Cross-Organizational Trust
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current collaboration and resource sharing solutions between organizations face challenges in establishing trusted, controlled, and secured communication and resource sharing across different organizations, lacking a standardized method to establish trust and facilitate external collaboration.
Innovation Solution
The Organization Connect (OC) system enables trusted collaborative communications by allowing organizations to register, verify identities, establish trusted relationships, and use APIs to create secure connections for collaborative communications and resource sharing, including contact directories and IoT device sharing, through a directory of verified organizations and OC applications like BBME and OUTLOOK.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If organizations use existing collaboration solutions internally, then ease of operation is improved, but extending collaboration externally is challenging due to trust requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a federation service as an intermediary that mediates trust relationships between organizations. This service stores federation relationships, verifies organization identities, and enables secure external collaboration without requiring direct trust establishment between participating organizations, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of internal collaboration and reliability of external collaboration
2Reliability
If organizations establish trusted relationships for external collaboration, then reliability is improved, but device complexity and setup difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where organizations can independently register with the federation service, obtain verification tokens, and establish trusted relationships without manual intervention from system administrators or other organizations. This automated self-service approach reduces the complexity of establishing trust while maintaining reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The federation service performs preliminary verification and validation of organization identities before allowing collaboration. By pre-establishing trust credentials and verifying organizational identities in advance, the system reduces the complexity of real-time trust establishment while ensuring reliable trusted relationships
3Adaptability or versatility
If organizations share resources externally, then adaptability is improved, but security control becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements fine-grained security controls that allow organizations to define specific sharing policies for different resources and different external partners. Each organization can customize access permissions, data sharing rules, and resource access levels on a per-partner and per-resource basis, enabling adaptable resource sharing while maintaining precise security control through localized policy enforcement
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and software can be used to establish collaborative communications. In some aspects, a server receives a contact search request from an application of a first organization, the contact search request including contact information. The server determines a second organization, wherein the second organization is connected to the first organization to enable a user of the first organization to search a user directory of the second organization. The server determines a subset of the user directory of the second organization that can be searched by the user of the first organization. The server transmits, to the application of the second organization, the contact information and information of the determined subset of the user directory of the second organization. The server receives a contact search result from the application of the second organization. The serer transmits the received contact search result to the application of the first organization.