Secure Cloud Collaboration Platform for IP Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Proprietors of intellectual property face challenges in collaborating without risking control over sensitive information, as traditional methods involve revealing proprietary data, leading to potential misappropriation and inefficiencies in legal agreements.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based system that controls access to intellectual property by using a session descriptor to manage collaboration sessions, where a first accountholder can access an executable and a second accountholder can access an input parameter, both encrypted until decryption information is provided, ensuring that proprietors do not access each other's data or algorithms, and the system generates a collaboration result that is shared with pre-approved recipients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If proprietors reveal intellectual property to each other to evaluate joint enterprise feasibility, then collaboration evaluation can be performed, but control over sensitive information is lost and risk of misappropriation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based intermediary system that acts as a mediator between proprietors. The system executes executables and manages data access without allowing direct access between proprietors. The cloud environment serves as the intermediary that processes collaboration evaluations while maintaining security boundaries, preventing direct exposure of sensitive intellectual property.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the collaboration process into distinct components: executables, input parameters, and output results. Each proprietor retains control over their specific segments (executable or input parameter) while the cloud system orchestrates their interaction. This segmentation allows collaboration evaluation while maintaining clear boundaries that prevent misappropriation of sensitive information.
2Reliability
If legal agreements are used to govern access to intellectual property, then access control can be established, but the process becomes inefficient, costly, and over restrictive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical/legal system of contracts and agreements with an automated technical system. The cloud-based platform uses digital authorization tokens and programmable access controls to enforce collaboration rules, substituting legal enforcement mechanisms with automated technical enforcement. This eliminates the need for lengthy legal agreements while maintaining reliable access control.
3Loss of information
If proprietors directly access each other's data and algorithms for collaboration, then full visibility is achieved, but security risks and access control complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud system serves as an intermediary that provides controlled visibility between proprietors. It executes the executable with the input parameter and returns results without allowing direct access between proprietors. This intermediary approach maintains necessary information visibility for collaboration evaluation while simplifying access control by centralizing security management in the cloud platform.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for secure collaboration of intellectual property are provided. By way of introductory example, a cloud environment may store a session descriptor indicative of an executable, an input parameter for the executable, and a target recipient. The cloud environment may receive a first and second authorization of the session descriptor from the respective proprietors of the input parameter and the executable. The cloud environment may verify, based on the first authorization and the second authorization, the session descriptor is authorized. The cloud environment may generate, in response to the session descriptor being authorized, a collaboration result based on the executable and the input parameter. The cloud environment may control access to the collaboration result based on the target recipient.