Relationship Chain Authentication for Controlled Resource Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing resource sharing methods lack control and traceability, leading to the risk of spreading illegal information and making it difficult to manage the dissemination of content between friends, resulting in potential infringement and uncontrollable spreading of illegal content.

Innovation Solution

A resource sharing method that utilizes relationship chain information to authenticate and control the sharing process, where a resource download link is generated with added relationship chain information and recorded by the sharing server, ensuring only authorized users with a friend relationship can access the content, thus introducing a controlled sharing mechanism and enabling traceability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If resource sharing is implemented without control mechanisms, then sharing speed and accessibility are improved, but the risk of spreading illegal information increases and traceability is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource sharing accessibilityVSAvoidillegal information spreading risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a sharing server as an intermediary between the resource owner and the downloader. The server receives sharing indication messages, queries relationship chain information, generates controlled download links, and transmits them to authorized users. This intermediary mechanism enables controlled resource sharing while preventing illegal information spreading and maintaining traceability through the server's centralized control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the sharing server queries relationship chain information from a relationship chain server before allowing resource download. The server verifies the user's relationship status and generates download links based on this feedback, ensuring that only authorized users can access resources while maintaining ease of operation for legitimate sharing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If relationship chain authentication is added to resource sharing, then control and traceability are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesharing control and traceabilityVSAvoidsharing system structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The sharing server performs multiple functions within a single system component: receiving sharing indication messages, querying relationship chain information, generating download links, and transmitting resources. By making the server multi-functional, the patent reduces overall system complexity while maintaining reliable control and traceability through the integrated authentication mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The relationship chain server acts as a specialized intermediary that handles authentication queries separately from the main resource sharing process. This division of labor simplifies the overall system architecture by isolating the complex authentication logic in a dedicated service, while the sharing server focuses on resource management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If manual upload and temporary link generation is used for sharing, then resource protection is improved, but sharing speed and user experience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource protectionVSAvoidsharing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The sharing server automatically handles the entire resource sharing process without requiring manual intervention. When a user provides a sharing indication message, the server automatically queries relationship information, generates download links, and transmits resources to authorized users. This self-service mechanism maintains resource protection through automated authentication while dramatically improving sharing speed and user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The sharing server continuously monitors and processes sharing requests in real-time, maintaining an ongoing useful action rather than requiring discrete manual steps. The system continuously queries relationship chains, validates permissions, and transfers resources without interruption, ensuring both protected sharing and high productivity through uninterrupted automated operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS9215277B2Resource sharing method and device, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2015.12.15 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed are a resource sharing method and device, and a storage medium. The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention is applied to use a relationship chain to perform authentication control. When a resource download link is generated, corresponding relationship chain information is added into the link, and the resource download link is recorded and sent by a sharing server. When a user needs to perform downloading according to the received resource download link, authentication is performed on the user according to the relationship chain information. Only users who have the friendly relationship corresponding to the relationship chain are permitted to download specific contents, thereby introducing a controlled resource sharing mechanism in the existing download platform system, controlling contents to be legally and orderly spread, and at the same time enabling the resource spreading process to be traced.