Trigger-Based Privacy Schedule for Social Media Posts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional approaches to managing privacy settings for social media posts are inefficient and static, leading to inconvenience and hesitation among users when sharing content, as they often require manual editing or removal to change access permissions.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows for trigger-based modification of privacy settings, where a privacy schedule is determined and triggers, such as elapsed time or specific events, can change the post's accessibility from a first set of entities to a second set, enabling dynamic control over who can view the post.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If manual editing or removal is required to change access permissions, then privacy control precision is improved, but user convenience and operational efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows users to pre-configure privacy schedules and triggers in advance. When predetermined conditions are met (such as elapsed time or specific events), the privacy settings automatically modify without requiring manual intervention. This resolves the contradiction by performing the privacy control action in advance, eliminating the need for manual editing while maintaining precise control over access permissions.
Solution Approach 2:
The privacy management system operates autonomously by detecting triggers and automatically modifying privacy settings according to predefined schedules. The system serves itself by monitoring conditions and executing privacy modifications without user intervention, thereby improving convenience while maintaining precise privacy control through the predetermined rules.
2Device complexity
If static privacy settings are used, then system simplicity is improved, but adaptability to changing user needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static privacy settings into dynamic ones by introducing triggers and schedules that automatically modify privacy parameters based on changing conditions. The system maintains relative simplicity by using predetermined rules and automated processes, while gaining adaptability through its ability to respond to elapsed time, user actions, and other triggering events without requiring complex real-time decision-making infrastructure.
3Productivity
If automatic privacy modification is implemented, then operational efficiency is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
By requiring users to pre-configure privacy schedules and triggers, the system achieves high operational efficiency through automated execution without requiring complex real-time processing. The complexity is front-loaded during setup rather than during operation, allowing efficient automated privacy modifications when triggers are detected while keeping the operational system relatively simple.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a post to be published via a social networking system. A privacy schedule for modifying a privacy setting associated with the post can be determined. A trigger to modify the privacy setting associated with the post can be detected. The privacy setting can be modified based on the privacy schedule when the trigger is detected.