Secure Content Sharing with Automated Tracking and Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in securely sharing advance content with clients while collecting interaction metrics, as existing methods lack secure and automated tracking mechanisms to gather insights effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for secure content sharing with automated tracking, involving a publishing computer program that receives content, saves it to a secure site, communicates links with authentication codes, collects interaction metrics, and provides insights to the user device, using cookies or certificates for registration validation and personalized content modification based on prior metrics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content is shared securely with authentication codes and tracking mechanisms, then security and metrics collection are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides content into multiple accessible segments through linked content files, where each segment can be independently accessed and tracked. This allows secure sharing of large content sets without requiring complex centralized authentication for the entire content collection, reducing system complexity while maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary components including authentication codes, cookie-based session management, and metrics collection intermediaries that sit between the user and the content. These intermediaries handle security and tracking functions, allowing the core content delivery system to remain relatively simple while security and metrics collection are improved.
2Reliability
If authentication codes and registration validation are implemented, then access control is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service authentication where users automatically receive authentication codes via email and cookies are automatically managed by the browser. Users don't need to manually configure security settings or manage authentication tokens - the system handles these tasks automatically, improving ease of operation while maintaining access control.
Solution Approach 2:
Authentication codes are sent to users in advance via email before they need to access the content. Registration and cookie setup are performed preliminarily during the initial access attempt, so subsequent access is faster and easier. This preliminary action reduces the operational burden on users while maintaining security.
3Loss of information
If metrics collection is implemented for content interaction, then insights quality is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Metrics collection operates continuously in the background as users interact with content, without requiring explicit user actions to trigger data collection. The system continuously tracks interactions, time spent on content, and navigation patterns, providing comprehensive insights without adding noticeable time overhead to user activities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual metrics collection methods with automated electronic tracking through cookies and server-side logging. Instead of requiring manual surveys or forms from users, the system automatically captures interaction data through technical mechanisms, significantly reducing the time required to collect insights while improving data quality.
Data Source
AI summary
A method may include: a publishing computer program receiving content from a user electronic device; the publishing computer program saving the content to a secure site; the publishing computer program communicating a first message to a plurality of recipients comprising a link to the content on the secure site; the publishing computer program sending a second message to each of the plurality of recipients with an authentication code; the publishing computer program receiving an access by a recipient electronic device for one of the plurality of recipients; the publishing computer program prompting the one recipient for the authentication code; the publishing computer program presenting the content to the one recipient; a metrics collecting computer program collecting metrics for recipient interaction with the content; and the metrics collecting computer program making the metrics available to the user electronic device.