Real-Time Risk Detection in Heterogeneous Collaboration Platforms

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current collaboration platform technologies lack real-time risk detection and remediation capabilities, particularly for visual content and settings, leading to inadequate security and compliance in work-from-anywhere environments.

Innovation Solution

A data security system that interfaces with heterogeneous collaboration platforms to monitor active meetings, detect risks through AI and machine learning analysis, and take immediate remedial actions, such as notifications, user removal, or policy adjustments, using API connections and real-time data processing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If real-time monitoring and analysis of collaboration platforms is implemented, then security and compliance risks are detected and addressed promptly, but system complexity and computational resources increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity risk detection capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the monitoring task by dividing it into multiple independent analysis components: visual content analysis (screen shares, whiteboards, backgrounds), audio content analysis (transcripts, keywords), chat content analysis, and settings monitoring. Each segment is processed separately by specialized AI models and algorithms, making the overall complex system manageable and scalable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary AI-based analysis layer between the collaboration platform data sources and the risk detection logic. This intermediary layer processes raw visual, audio, and chat content through machine learning models to extract meaningful risk indicators, simplifying the overall system architecture and improving reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive analysis of visual content (screen shares, whiteboards, webcams) is performed in real-time, then data exposure risks are identified, but processing speed and computational load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual content analysis accuracyVSAvoidreal-time processing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements periodic sampling and analysis of visual content rather than continuous frame-by-frame analysis. Visual content is analyzed at strategically selected intervals during screen shares, whiteboard sessions, and webcam activations, maintaining adequate detection precision while reducing computational load and improving processing speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial analysis by focusing computational resources on specific high-risk visual elements such as document previews, file transfer indicators, and keywords detected in transcribed audio, rather than analyzing every visual pixel continuously. This selective approach maintains measurement precision for critical risks while improving overall processing speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Device complexity

If manual review and keyword searching of transcribed content is used, then implementation is simple, but risk detection capability and responsiveness are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem simplicityVSAvoidrisk detection capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual review and basic keyword searching with AI-based machine learning analysis. Natural language processing models analyze transcribed audio and chat content to detect risks, while computer vision models analyze visual content. This substitution dramatically improves risk detection capability and responsiveness while maintaining automated operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service automated monitoring that continuously analyzes collaboration platform content without requiring manual intervention. AI models automatically detect risks, classify them by severity, and trigger appropriate responses, eliminating the need for manual review while significantly enhancing detection capability compared to simple keyword searching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20230370434A1System and method for analyzing real-time data from heterogeneous collaboration platforms to identify risk
Publication Date: 2023.11.16 THETA LAKE INC
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AI summary

A data security system uses API connections to heterogeneous collaboration platforms to analyze elements of conversations to identify regulatory, security, and privacy risks and take corresponding actions to limit and remediate risks in real-time. In some embodiments, the data security system can use API event triggers to determine when an action is taken, apply a machine learning-based detections to identify relevant risks, and take a corresponding remedial action such as removing a user from a conversation.