Restricted Group Stories With Location- and Time-Based Access
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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 manage content within restricted groups.
Innovation Solution
A system for creating and managing restricted group content collections, known as group stories, which allows authorized users to contribute and view curated streams of user-submitted content, with features like location-based access, time limits, and user-defined parameters for participation and viewing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is made accessible to multiple users, then content sharing capability is improved, but access control complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments access control into distinct roles (organizer, contributor, viewer) with specific permissions. This segmentation allows the system to manage complex access control by breaking it down into manageable authorization levels, where organizers can invite contributors and set viewing parameters without managing individual user permissions manually.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism where the organizer creates a story and defines access parameters, while the system automatically manages the distribution and access control. This intermediary approach reduces the complexity burden on individual users by centralizing the access control logic in the story creation and management system.
2Ease of operation
If location-based access is implemented, then restricted group content management is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements location-based access by changing the access parameters of the story to include geographic location criteria. The system automatically evaluates whether a user's location matches the specified parameters and grants or denies access accordingly. This parameter-based approach simplifies the user experience by allowing location restrictions to be set without complex configuration.
3Duration of action of moving object
If time-limited access is implemented, then content freshness is improved, but access management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The organizer sets the time-limited access parameters when creating the story, defining the duration and conditions under which content will be available. The system then automatically enforces these time limits without requiring ongoing manual management. This preliminary configuration approach reduces operational complexity by establishing all time-based access rules upfront.
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.