Selective Data Migration Between User Accounts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online services face inefficiencies and insecurities in sharing information items between accounts, including high resource usage, reliance on user initiation, and lack of selective control over data migration, leading to potential accidental sharing of sensitive information and unnecessary network loads.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows direct, selective migration of data subsets between accounts without user-initiated posts, emails, or messages, using metadata and logs for control and permissions, enabling seamless and secure transfer of specific data items like contacts, photos, and documents, with options for encryption and user verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional messaging or email systems are used to share information items, then information can be shared between accounts, but computer and network resources are heavily consumed and user initiation is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the data sharing function from traditional communication protocols (email, messaging) and implements it directly through account-to-account data transfer mechanisms. This separates the data migration function from communication overhead, eliminating the need for messages, emails, or posts to share information items.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary service that automatically manages data sharing between accounts based on predefined criteria and user permissions. This intermediary handles the negotiation and transfer processes, eliminating the need for direct user-initiated communications while maintaining security and control.
2Ease of operation
If user-initiated communications are used for sharing, then users can control what they share, but communications can be overlooked and consistency in sharing is suspect
Solution Approach 1:
Users perform preliminary actions by configuring sharing rules, permissions, and criteria in advance. The system then automatically executes data sharing based on these pre-established parameters, ensuring consistent and reliable sharing without requiring users to manually initiate each communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that notify users of sharing activities and allow them to review and adjust sharing parameters. This ensures users maintain control over what is shared while the system automatically executes consistent sharing operations based on established rules.
3Reliability
If outgoing filters are implemented to block or filter communications before sending, then sensitive information can be protected, but significant computer resources are consumed on the sender side
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary service that handles filtering and security checks for data sharing. This intermediary processes sensitive information protection logic centrally, eliminating the need for complex outgoing filters on each sender's device while maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates controlled copies of data for sharing purposes with embedded permission and filtering metadata. These copies include security attributes that enable automatic filtering without requiring heavy processing on the original sender's device, as the filtering logic is embedded in the data structure itself.
4Loss of energy
If collaborative editing systems are used for sharing, then information items can be shared without emails or messages, but information items are not selectively shared and sensitive information is exposed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by applying different permission levels and access controls to different portions of data or different recipients. This enables selective sharing where specific data subsets can be shared with specific accounts while maintaining security, unlike collaborative editing systems that typically expose all information to all participants.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments data into shareable subsets with distinct permission attributes. This allows granular control over what information is shared with which accounts, enabling selective sharing without the communication overhead of traditional systems while maintaining security through structured data organization.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for sharing information from a first user account to a second user account selectively and seamlessly. The systems and methods can be implemented by server(s) that analyze electronic transactions between the first user account and the second user account to determine appropriate queries for the accounts for sharing information. Such queries can include queries for file permissions. Also, the server(s) can generate sharing instructions according to results of the queries. The server(s) can also select electronic content items for sharing according to the generated sharing instructions. And, the server(s) can direct storage of a copy of the selected electronic content items of the first user account into a data structure of the second user account, such that access by the second user account to the selected items from the first account is as seamless as accessing electronic content items originated by the second user account.