Unified Collaboration Channel for Multi-Device Content Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing access to network resources and monitoring for potential misuse become challenging due to differences between client devices and how they access network resources, especially in a mobile workforce scenario.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for establishing a collaboration channel between multiple devices in a network environment, allowing shared access to content or files through a server that detects events and creates shared spaces or folders with varying access levels, enabling content sharing and generation based on event templates and user profiles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a server creates separate access channels for each client device, then each device can access network resources independently, but the device complexity and management overhead increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple device-specific access channels into a single unified collaboration channel that serves all participants. Instead of creating separate access pathways for each client device, the system establishes one shared channel that carries all collaboration data, significantly reducing the number of channels the server must manage while maintaining the ability to deliver content to multiple devices simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The collaboration channel is designed as a universal interface that can serve multiple functions: it can deliver content to any number of different client devices, support various content types, and accommodate different user roles and permissions. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for device-specific tailored channels, reducing overall system complexity.
2Reliability
If the server manages individual access channels for each client device, then access control can be precise, but the server load and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple access control operations into the single collaboration channel framework. Instead of the server managing and processing authentication and authorization requests for each individual device channel, the system processes access control once at the channel level, significantly reducing server processing load while maintaining comprehensive access control capabilities through participant-level permissions within the unified channel.
3Ease of operation
If multiple separate channels are established for content sharing, then content can be delivered to specific devices, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring channel usage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of multiple device-targeted channels into a single collaboration channel that can be monitored as one unified entity. The channel includes a unified endpoint that aggregates content from all participants and delivers it to all devices, making it easier to detect and measure overall channel usage patterns, content distribution effectiveness, and collaboration engagement metrics without having to monitor multiple separate channels.
Data Source
AI summary
Described embodiments provide systems and method for establishing a collaboration channel between a plurality of devices to provide shared access to at least one memory location for each device of the plurality of devices. A server can detect an event identifying a plurality of participants and generate a template for the event. The server can create, based on the template, a folder to store one or more content items and establish a channel communicatively connecting the plurality of devices with the folder. The channel can provide shared access to the folder for each device of the plurality of devices. The server can receive, via the channel a first content item at the folder responsive to at least one device executing the first action and provide, responsive to receiving the first content item, a second action to the plurality of devices through the channel.