Shared Collaborative Channels for Cross-Organization Roster Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Collaborative platforms often fail to facilitate seamless collaboration between individuals or teams within and outside an organization, lacking means for effective cross-team and cross-organizational connectivity.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for creating shared collaborative channels that allow collaboration by provisioning a substrate group with a substrate database, generating custom access links, and managing memberships and permissions, enabling cross-team and cross-organizational collaboration through independent identity management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a collaborative workspace provides easy access to team members and documents within an organization, then internal collaboration efficiency is improved, but connectivity between individuals in different teams and/or with external individuals is not enabled
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the collaborative workspace into distinct organizational boundaries while introducing a substrate layer that operates independently. Each organization has its own substrate group and substrate database, allowing internal collaboration efficiency to be maintained within organizational silos while enabling controlled cross-organizational connectivity through the shared substrate infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The substrate group acts as an intermediary layer between different organizational collaborative workspaces. It provides a common infrastructure for identity management, access control, and resource sharing that mediates between the need for organizational isolation and the desire for cross-organizational collaboration.
2Reliability
If a substrate group is provisioned with independent identity management, then access control and permissions are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the identity management functionality into the substrate group, which is already a fundamental infrastructure component. By combining access control mechanisms with the existing substrate database and group management structures, the system achieves reliable identity management without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The substrate group serves multiple functions: it provides the foundational infrastructure for collaborative workspaces, manages identity information, controls access permissions, and enables cross-organizational connectivity. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated systems for each function.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for generating a shared collaborative channel for collaboration are provided. In particular, a computing device may receive a request, from an originating member of an organization, to create the shared collaborative channel, the request including an invitee to be added to the shared collaborative channel. In response to receipt of the request, the computing device may provision a substrate group by creating a container associate with the shared collaborative channel including a substrate database associated with the shared collaborative channel, generate an invitation including a custom link to the shared collaborative channel for the invitee, and determine whether the invitee belongs to an originating collaboration team associated with the originating member based on the substrate database. If the invitee belongs to the originating collaboration team, the computing device may further update the substrate group to add the invitee as a new member of the shared collaborative channel.