SNS-Based Access Authority for Apparatus Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack an efficient method for allowing users to temporarily access and use apparatuses in a controlled environment based on social networking trust relationships, limiting sharing and collaboration between users with different access authorities.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that utilizes a social networking service to grant users access authority to apparatuses by establishing trust relationships, allowing users to request and obtain usage rights for dedicated apparatuses installed in other user groups through a processor-managed system, enabling provisional or definitive access based on trust approvals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are granted access authority to apparatuses in other user groups, then resource sharing and collaboration are enhanced, but security control and access management complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a social networking service (SNS) as an intermediary system that manages trust relationships between users of different user groups. The SNS server stores and verifies trust relationships, acting as a mediator that simplifies access management while enabling cross-group resource sharing. When a user wants to access an apparatus in another user group, the system checks the trust relationship through the SNS rather than requiring complex direct authentication between groups.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes trust relationships in advance between users before actual apparatus access is needed. Users can be added to each other's trusted user lists beforehand through the SNS interface. When access is required, the system simply verifies the pre-established trust relationship rather than performing complex authentication at the moment of access, thus reducing real-time management complexity.
2Ease of operation
If trust relationships are established between users and apparatuses across user groups, then provisional access is enabled, but system complexity and authentication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The SNS server acts as an intermediary that centralizes the management of trust relationships. Instead of each apparatus maintaining its own complex authentication system, the SNS server stores and verifies all trust relationships, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling cross-user-group access.
Solution Approach 2:
Users can independently manage their own trusted user lists through the SNS interface without requiring administrative intervention. Users can add or remove trusted users themselves, and the system automatically updates access permissions based on these self-managed trust relationships, reducing operational overhead.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, when a user posts information on a social networking service (SNS) that is related to a request for use of an apparatus, grant the user an authority to use the apparatus, the SNS being a service in which participants exchange information, the user being a participant of the SNS, the apparatus being a participant of the SNS and having a trust relationship with another participant who has a trust relationship with the user, trust relationships being relationships in which information is exchanged on the SNS only between limited participants.