Social Network Authentication via Relationship Chain Forwarding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing social network technologies are inefficient in establishing relationships between users due to the manual input of authentication request messages, lacking sufficient parameters for decision-making and automatic acquisition of user identification and relationship information.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus where a social network server processes authentication request messages by determining and forwarding relationship chain information to the recipient client, enabling them to authenticate the request based on indirect social network relationships, thereby improving the efficiency of relationship establishment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the authentication request message is completely subject to user manual input, then the system can obtain user identification and social relationship information, but the efficiency in building social relationship between two subscribers is low
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic acquisition of user identification and social relationship information through self-service mechanisms. The server automatically queries and retrieves relationship chain information from the social network without requiring manual user input, thereby improving efficiency while maintaining the necessary authentication process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing and maintaining the social relationship database and relationship chain information before authentication is needed. This allows the server to quickly retrieve and verify user relationships automatically when authentication requests are received, eliminating the need for manual input during the authentication process.
2Loss of information
If the authentication request message is completely subject to user manual input, then the system can process authentication requests, but there is no way to provide sufficient parameter for user B to make decision about user A's authentication request message
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that automatically queries and retrieves relationship chain information from the social network database. This intermediary function provides comprehensive authentication parameters (relationship chains, common contacts, relationship strength) to user B without requiring complex manual input from users, thereby reducing information loss while managing system complexity through centralized automated processing.
3Loss of information
If relationship chain information is automatically obtained and provided to the second client, then the parameters for authentication decision are enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server implements a universal relationship query mechanism that serves multiple authentication scenarios. The same relationship chain query system is used across different authentication contexts, allowing the system to provide comprehensive authentication parameters without proportionally increasing complexity. The multi-functional relationship database serves both authentication and social networking purposes.
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AI summary
The present disclosure presents a method and apparatus for processing an authentication request message in a social network. In order to resolve the problems of the inefficiency in confirming request to establish social relationship by a user and inadequacy of parameter provided for authentication under existing technologies, the present disclosure provides a method. The method includes: receiving, by a social network server, the authentication request message sent by a first client to a second client to establish a social relationship with the second client; determining, by the social network server, a relationship chain information indicative of an indirect social network relationship between the first client and the second client; and forwarding, by the social network server, the authentication request message and the obtained relationship chain information to the second client, the relationship chain information being used by the second client to authenticate the authentication request message.