Selective Privacy Exposure for Virtual Event Recordings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current web conferencing solutions do not adequately address the privacy concerns of participants, as existing methods for recording web conferences are cumbersome and fail to respect individuals' rights to be forgotten, as they do not provide a straightforward mechanism for selective recording and permission control.
Innovation Solution
A method that presents a dialog to each participant for recording authorization and access permission selection, dynamically monitors participant interactions, and generates an enriched recording based on these selections, allowing participants to opt out of being recorded and encrypting their segments for privacy protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If recording of web conference is enabled, then complete recording of all participants is achieved, but privacy rights of participants are violated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the recording process by participant, allowing individual control over each participant's recording status. The system divides the conference recording into separate participant streams, each with independent authorization and permission settings, resolving the contradiction between complete recording and privacy protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different recording qualities and access permissions to different participants based on their individual preferences. Each participant's stream can have unique encryption settings, authorization levels, and access restrictions, allowing the system to maintain overall recording completeness while protecting individual privacy rights locally.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If selective recording permission control is implemented, then privacy rights are protected, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by allowing each participant to autonomously set their own recording authorization and permission preferences without requiring manual configuration by the system administrator. Participants directly control their own privacy settings, which simplifies the overall system management while maintaining strong privacy protections.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary action by collecting recording authorization and permission preferences from all participants before the conference recording begins. By gathering all necessary permissions in advance and encoding them in TCP headers, the system avoids complex real-time permission management during the conference, reducing operational complexity.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If encryption is applied to participant streams, then privacy security is enhanced, but processing overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies encryption selectively to only those participant streams that have opted for privacy protection, rather than encrypting all streams uniformly. This localized approach ensures security for participants who need it while minimizing unnecessary computational overhead for participants who do not require encryption, optimizing the balance between security and energy consumption.
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AI summary
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for selective conference recording is provided. The embodiment may include, in response to an initiation of a recording of a web conference, receiving a recording authorization selection and a recording access permission selection from each participant within a plurality of participants to the web conference. The embodiment may also include writing the recording authorization selection and the recording access permission selection to a corresponding TCP header for each participant. The embodiment may further include recording a stream of the web conference for each participant based on the recording authorization selection. The embodiment may also include, in response to the recording ending, encrypting the stream for each participant based on the recording access permission selection. The embodiment may also include generating an enriched recording of the web conference based on the encrypted streams.