Role-Based Instant Messaging Account Binding for Secure Handovers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional role-based user permission management systems face challenges in efficiently managing permissions, especially during employee transfers or resignations, leading to cumbersome operations, errors, and potential leaks of confidential information due to the complexity of role permissions and instant messaging account handovers.
Innovation Solution
A method is introduced where roles are created as independent entities, allowing each role to be uniquely related to a user, and instant messaging accounts are bound to roles based on work content, enabling seamless handovers and secure communication by managing messaging relationships between roles, ensuring that only relevant personnel access specific communication information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional role-based permission management is used where one role corresponds to multiple users, then permission management covers multiple users, but the operation becomes cumbersome and error-prone when employee changes occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the role-user relationship by introducing an intermediate dimension (department and position). Instead of directly mapping roles to multiple users, the system divides permissions into hierarchical layers: department level, position level, and user level. This segmentation allows precise control where each user can be assigned to specific positions within departments, reducing operational complexity when employees change roles or departments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds new dimensional layers to the traditional role-based model by introducing department and position as intermediate dimensions. The permission management structure transitions from a flat role-user mapping to a multi-dimensional hierarchy: User → Position → Department → Role/Permission. This dimensional expansion enables more granular and flexible permission control, making operations easier when employee assignments change.
2Ease of operation
If instant messaging accounts are directly assigned to employees, then communication is straightforward, but information leaks occur when employees transfer or resign
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces department and position as intermediary layers between employees and instant messaging accounts. Instead of directly assigning IM accounts to individual employees, the system binds IM accounts to positions or departments. When an employee transfers or resigns, their IM account access is automatically revoked through the position-department-role hierarchy, preventing information leaks while maintaining communication accessibility for current employees.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes the binding relationship between positions/departments and instant messaging accounts before employee assignments. By configuring the permission hierarchy in advance (defining which positions have access to which IM accounts), the system automatically enforces security policies when employees change roles, eliminating the need for manual account reassignment and preventing security gaps during transitions.
3Measurement precision
If manual permission adjustment is performed for each employee change, then precise control is achieved, but workload increases and errors occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service automation where the system automatically adjusts permissions based on predefined rules and hierarchical relationships. When an employee is assigned to a position or department, the system automatically grants appropriate IM account access through the configured role hierarchy. This eliminates manual permission adjustment while maintaining precise control, as the automation follows the pre-established permission structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback mechanism where changes in employee-position-department assignments automatically trigger permission reconfiguration. The hierarchical structure provides built-in feedback loops: when a user's position or department changes, the system detects this change and automatically adjusts IM account permissions based on the pre-configured role relationships, ensuring precise control without manual intervention.
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AI summary
A method for presetting contacts of an instant messaging account and presetting an address book according to a messaging relationship between roles is provided. The method includes creating roles in a system, and during the same period, one role can only be related to a unique user, while one user is related to one or more roles; one user corresponds to one employee, and one employee corresponds to one user; establishing a relation between a user/an employee and an instant messaging account, wherein one user/employee is related to one instant messaging account, and one instant messaging account is related to one user/employee; and setting a messaging relationship between a messaging role and a messaged role according to the work content of the roles in the system.