Social media login and interaction management
View Patent ↗A hardware or software firewall may be installed within a private network. The firewall may intercept a first set of login credentials entered into a login interface of a social media platform. The firewall then checks that the first set of login credentials are correct against a first set of reference login credentials stored in a firewall memory, and sends a second set of login credentials to the login interface of the social media platform. This allows business employees to access a corporate social media profile from a private network but not outside the private network. The firewall can also limit social media interactions using the firewall by limiting the other profiles that a user's profile can interact with (e.g., using a whitelist, blacklist, or reputation score), by limiting communication types (e.g., using a whitelist or blacklist), by imposing firewall policies, or some combination thereof.
1. A method for network service access management, the method comprising:
receiving a first set of login credentials at a firewall from a user device, the first set of login credentials generated via a user input received through a login user interface of a social media platform presented at the user device;
determining that the first set of login credentials correctly matches a first set of reference login credentials stored in a firewall memory that is accessible by the firewall;
transmitting a second set of login credentials to the social media platform, the second set of login credentials stored in the firewall memory;
receiving a network service user interface from the social media platform, the network service user interface personalized to provide a set of communication functions specific to a profile associated with the second set of login credentials, wherein the network service user interface allows communication between the profile and a plurality of secondary profiles;
transmitting at least a subset of the network service user interface to the user device, wherein the subset of the network service user interface allows communication between the profile and a subset of the plurality of secondary profiles;
determining a reputation score value for each secondary profile of the plurality of secondary profiles; and
generating the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles by including each secondary profile with a reputation score value above a predetermined limit value within the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles by comparing the plurality of secondary profiles to a whitelist of acceptable profiles.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles by comparing the plurality of secondary profiles to a blacklist of unacceptable profiles.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the network service user interface includes a plurality of communication function types, the plurality of communication function types including at least one of transfer of public messages, transfer of private messages, transfer of instant chat messages, transfer of files, real-time audio calls, real-time video calls, asynchronous audio messages, asynchronous video messages, or ephemeral messages.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the subset of the network service user interface includes a subset of the plurality of communication function types.
6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising identifying the subset of the plurality of communication function types by comparing the plurality of secondary profiles to a whitelist of acceptable communication function types.
7. The method of claim 5 , further comprising identifying the subset of the plurality of communication function types by comparing the plurality of secondary profiles to a blacklist of unacceptable communication function types.
8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for network service access management, the method comprising:
receiving a first set of login credentials at a firewall from a user device, the first set of login credentials generated via a user input received through a login user interface of a social media platform presented at the user device;
determining that the first set of login credentials correctly matches a first set of reference login credentials stored in a firewall memory that is accessible by the firewall;
transmitting a second set of login credentials to the social media platform, the second set of login credentials stored in the firewall memory;
receiving a network service user interface from the social media platform, the network service user interface personalized to provide a set of communication functions specific to a profile associated with the second set of login credentials, wherein the network service user interface allows communication between the profile and a plurality of secondary profiles;
transmitting at least a subset of the network service user interface to the user device, wherein the subset of the network service user interface allows communication between the profile and a subset of the plurality of secondary profiles;
determining a reputation score value for each secondary profile of the plurality of secondary profiles; and
generating the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles by including each secondary profile with a reputation score value above a predetermined limit value within the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein a different profile is associated with a different set of communication functions, and wherein a network service user interface personalized to the different profile includes the different set of communication functions.
10. An apparatus for network service access management, the apparatus comprising:
a communication interface that receives a first set of login credentials from the user device, the first set of login credentials generated via a user input received through a login user interface of a social media platform server presented at the user device;
a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor determines that the first set of login credentials correctly matches a first set of reference login credentials stored in memory;
wherein the communication interface:
transmits a second set of login credentials to the network platform server, the second set of login credentials stored in memory;
receives a network service user interface from the social media platform server, the network service user interface personalized to provide a set of communication functions specific to a profile associated with the second set of login credentials, wherein the network service user interface allows communication between the profile and a plurality of secondary profiles; and
transmits at least a subset of the network service user interface to the user device, wherein the subset of the network service user interface allows communication between the profile and a subset of the plurality of secondary profiles; and
wherein the processor executes further instructions to:
determine a reputation score value for each secondary profile of the plurality of secondary profiles; and
generate the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles by including each secondary profile with a reputation score value above a predetermined limit value within the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles.
11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the processor executes further instructions to identify the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles by comparing the plurality of secondary profiles to a whitelist of acceptable profiles.
12. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the processor executes further instructions to identify the subset of the plurality of secondary profiles by comparing the plurality of secondary profiles to a blacklist of unacceptable profiles.
13. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the subset of the network service user interface includes a subset of the plurality of communication function types.
14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the processor executes further instructions to identify the subset of the plurality of communication function types by comparing the plurality of secondary profiles to a whitelist of acceptable communication function types.