Data mesh based environmental augmentation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11210723-B2
Application number	US-201916391852-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2019
Priority date	Mar 25, 2014
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

In various example embodiments, a system and method for data mesh-based environmental augmentation are presented. Attribute data associated with a user may be received from a plurality of attribute sources. A portion of the attribute data. may include real-time data. A portion of the real-time data indicative of an identity of the user may be identified. The identity of the user may be authenticated with respect to the real-time data by analyzing the identified portion of the real-time data. Based on the authentication of the identity of the user, a user activity being performed by the user may be identified based on the real-time data, and the user activity may be augmented according to a user setting.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a network system from a plurality of sources, data associated with a user, the data including a consumable inventory monitored by one or more of the plurality of sources;
authenticating, by the network system, an identity of the user based on an analysis of a portion of the data received from a mobile device carried by the user, the mobile device being one of the plurality of sources providing the data;
tracking, via one or more of the plurality of sources, movement of the user through an environment, the tracking providing locations of the user at given times; and
augmenting one or more activities of the user based in part on the tracked locations of the user and the data from the plurality of sources, the augmenting the one or more activities including:
causing presentation of a notification on the mobile device carried by the user regarding the consumable inventory based on the tracked movement indicating that the user is located at a particular location; and
facilitating payment by the user, the facilitating payment comprises causing the payment to be made without the user providing a security credential based on the authenticating of the identity of the user.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the plurality of sources comprises an optical reader used to scan a Quick Response (QR) code, the QR code being used to authenticate the user.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the plurality of sources comprises cameras that monitor the environment and track movement of the user.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying an activity of the one or more activities of the user, wherein the causing presentation of the notification is in response to identifying the activity.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising inferring the activity of the user by analyzing location data in conjunction with status data, the status data indicating activity associated with a particular device.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing one or more user settings, wherein the augmenting the one or more activities comprises:
determining that a user setting of the one or more user settings is associated with an activity of the one or more activities; and
automatically augmenting the activity based on the user setting and the tracked locations.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the authenticating the identity comprises calculating an identity likelihood metric based on the portion of the data, the identity likelihood metric indicating a likelihood of authentication of the user with respect to the data.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the authenticating the identity comprises:
extracting past identification indications from past data that corresponds to the user;
extracting real-time identification indications from the data received from the plurality of sources; and
calculating an identity likelihood metric by correlating the real-time identification indications with the past identification indications, the identity likelihood metric indicating a likelihood of authentication of the user with respect to the data.

9. A system comprising:
one or more hardware processors; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, causes the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by the system from a plurality of sources, data associated with a user, the data including a consumable inventory monitored by one or more of the plurality of sources;
authenticating, by the system, an identity of the user based on an analysis of a portion of the data received from a mobile device carried by the user, the mobile device being one of the plurality of sources;
tracking, via one or more of the plurality of sources, movement of the user through an environment, the tracking providing locations of the user at given times; and
augmenting one or more activities of the user based in part on the tracked locations of the user and the data from the plurality of sources, the augmenting the one or more activities including:
causing presentation of a notification on the mobile device carried by the user regarding the consumable inventory based on the tracked movement indicating that the user is located at a particular location; and
facilitating payment by the user, the facilitating payment comprises causing the payment to be made without the user providing a security credential based on the authenticating of the identity of the user.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein one or more of the plurality of sources comprises an optical reader used to scan a Quick Response (QR) code, the QR code being used to authenticate the user.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein one or more of the plurality of sources comprises cameras that monitor the environment and track movement of the user.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise identifying an activity of the one or more activities of the user, and wherein the causing presentation of the notification is in response to identifying the activity.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise inferring the activity of the user by analyzing location data in conjunction with status data, the status data indicating activity associated with a particular device.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise storing one or more user settings, and wherein the augmenting the one or more activities comprises:
determining that a user setting of the one or more user settings is associated with an activity of the one or more activities; and
automatically augmenting the activity based on the user setting and the tracked locations.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more hardware processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a plurality of sources, data associated with a user, the data including a consumable inventory monitored by one or more of the plurality of sources;
authenticating an identity of the user based on an analysis of a portion of the data received from a mobile device carried by the user, the mobile device being one of the plurality of sources;
tracking, via one or more of the plurality of sources, movement of the user through an environment based on the data from the plurality of sources, the tracking providing locations of the user at given times; and
augmenting one or more activities of the user based in part on the tracked locations of the user and the data from the plurality of sources, the augmenting the one or more activities including:
causing presentation of a notification on the mobile device carried by the user regarding the consumable inventory based on the tracked movement indicating that the user is located at a particular location; and
facilitating payment by the user, the facilitating payment comprises causing the payment to be made without the user providing a security credential based on the authenticating of the identity of the user.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein one or more of the plurality of sources comprises an optical reader used to scan a Quick Response (QR) code, the QR code being used to authenticate the user.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein one or more of the plurality of sources comprises cameras that monitor the environment and track movement of the user.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Melcher Ryan
• Tapley John
• Lee Robert

Classifications

• G06T11/26

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• H04L2101/69

  using geographic information, e.g. room number · CPC title

• H04L63/107

  wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals · CPC title

• H04L63/08

  for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32) · CPC title

• H04L43/04

  Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation · CPC title