Social Media Video Access Control via Contact Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current social media platforms fail to effectively strengthen existing relationships and promote positive emotions, often leading to the spread of negative emotions such as depression and low self-esteem due to social comparison and unregulated content sharing.
Innovation Solution
A social media platform that categorizes user contacts based on interaction levels, restricts access to videos, and encourages positive content sharing by suspending users who generate negative emotions, while allowing users to record and share reaction videos to promote happiness and strengthen relationships.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If current social networks allow unlimited content sharing, then content sharing and social network growth are improved, but negative emotions and harmful factors spread
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the user base into different contact categories (e.g., family, friends, acquaintances) based on relationship strength and interaction history. This segmentation allows the system to apply different sharing rules and access levels to different user groups, thereby enabling content sharing while preventing harmful spread to inappropriate audiences
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements local quality by tailoring content access and sharing permissions according to the specific relationship between users. Different contact categories receive different levels of content access, and users can customize their own categories, creating a localized quality control mechanism that prevents harmful factors from spreading universally
2Productivity
If current social networks focus on content sharing and relationship growth, then social network expansion is improved, but existing relationship strengthening is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by automatically analyzing user interactions and pre-categorizing contacts before content sharing occurs. This preliminary classification based on interaction patterns ensures that when content is shared, the system already knows which relationships to prioritize and strengthen, rather than reacting after harm occurs
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where users can report harmful content or adjust their contact categories, and the system responds by modifying access permissions and sharing rules. This feedback loop strengthens existing relationships by allowing users to actively shape their social environment while maintaining network expansion
3Ease of operation
If video access is unrestricted, then user engagement is improved, but harmful content spread is not restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic access control where video viewing permissions are not fixed but change based on real-time relationship assessment. Users can be dynamically moved between contact categories based on interaction patterns, and their video access rights are dynamically adjusted accordingly, allowing easy operation while restricting harmful content spread
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for granting video access. A method may include generating a plurality of contact categories for a user on a communication platform; for each respective contact in a plurality of contacts associated with the user: determining a degree of interaction between the user and the respective contact; and automatically assigning the respective contact to a corresponding contact category of the plurality of contact categories based on the degree of interaction; receiving, from a device of a first contact associated with the user, a request to access a video posted by the user on the communication platform; and in response to determining, based on the assigning, that the first contact is in a first contact category in the plurality of contact categories that is eligible to view to the video, granting access to the video.