Restricted Group Stories with Geo-Temporal Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies face challenges in organizing and managing access to captured content, such as images and videos, making it difficult for users to easily share and curate content within restricted groups.
Innovation Solution
A system for creating and managing restricted group content collections, known as group stories, which allow authorized users to contribute and view curated streams of user-submitted content, with features like geographic and temporal restrictions, user selection, and automated curation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users can easily capture and share content, then content sharing ease is improved, but content organization and access management becomes problematic
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content into different types (photos, videos, text) and organizes them into distinct collections or albums. Each collection can have specific access rules and organization methods, making the overall system manageable despite the volume of content. This segmentation allows users to share content easily while maintaining organized access control through separate collection management.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between users and content. The server automatically manages content storage, organization, and access control based on user-defined parameters. This intermediary handles the complex organization and access management tasks, allowing users to focus on easy content sharing without dealing with the underlying complexity.
2Reliability
If restricted group content collections are created, then content access control is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses parameter changes to control content access. Users can define parameters such as time limits (ephemeral duration), geographic restrictions, and user selection criteria. The system automatically adjusts access rights based on these parameter changes, providing reliable access control without requiring complex manual management of each individual content item.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal content collection system that can handle multiple types of content (photos, videos, text) and apply various access control rules through a single unified mechanism. This multi-functional approach provides reliable access control across different content types while avoiding the need for separate complex systems for each content type.
3Productivity
If automated curation is implemented, then content organization efficiency is improved, but user control over content is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service automation where the system automatically curates content based on parameters set by users. Users define their preferences and constraints once, and the system automatically applies these rules to organize and manage content without requiring continuous manual intervention. This maintains user control through initial parameter setting while achieving high organization efficiency through automated execution.
Data Source
AI summary
A messaging server system receives a message creation input from a first client device that is associated with a first user registered with the messaging server system. The messaging server system determines, based on an entity graph representing connections between a plurality of users registered with the messaging server system, that the first user is within a threshold degree of connection with a second that initiated a group story in relation to a specified event. The messaging server system determines, based on location data received from the first client device, that the first client device was located within a geo-fence surrounding a geographic location of the specified event during a predetermined event window, the geo-fence and event window having been designated by the second user, and causes the first client device to present a user interface element that enables the first user to submit content to the group story.