Configurable sharing of user information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016285884-A1
Application number	US-201514798653-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 14, 2015
Priority date	Mar 27, 2015
Publication date	Sep 29, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for sharing information. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of receiving user information entered by a user through a user interface and generating a user profile based at least on the user information. Additional actions include receiving an identification of a particular storage provider location from the user through the user interface, storing the user profile at the particular storage provider location, and receiving privacy settings from the user. Additional actions include receiving a request from the user to access a network resource associated with a particular user information consumer. Further actions include obtaining the user profile from the particular storage provider location, generating a user information collection including at least a portion of the user information from the user profile, and providing the generated user information collection to the particular user information consumer.

First claim

1 . A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving user information entered by a user through a user interface; generating a user profile based at least on the user information; receiving an identification of particular storage provider location from the user through the user interface; storing the user profile at the particular storage provider location; receiving privacy settings from the user, the privacy settings specifying portions of the user information to be provided to particular user information consumers; receiving a request from the user to access a network resource associated with a particular user information consumer; and in response to receiving the request to access the network resource associated with the particular user information consumer:
obtaining the user profile from the particular storage provider location;
generating a user information collection including at least a portion of the user information from the user profile, wherein the portion of the user information included in the collection is determined based on the portion of the user information specified for the particular user information consumer in the privacy settings; and
providing the generated user information collection to the particular user information consumer.

2 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
receiving content from the particular user information consumer, where the content is customized based at least on the generated user information collection.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein generating a user information collection including at least a portion of the user information from the user profile comprises:
abstracting the portion of the user information based at least on the privacy settings.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving an identification of a particular storage provider location from the user through the user interface comprises:
receiving, through the user interface, (i) an identification of the particular storage provider location and (ii) account credentials, of the user, associated with the particular storage provider location.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein obtaining the user profile from the particular storage provider location comprises:
providing the account credentials to the particular storage provider location; selecting a storage rule associated with the particular storage provider location from a collection of storage rules associated with corresponding storage provider locations; and obtaining the user profile from the particular storage provider location based on the storage rule.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein storing the user profile at the particular storage provider location comprises:
selecting a storage rule associated with the particular storage provider location from a collection of storage rules associated with corresponding storage provider locations; and storing the user profile at the particular storage provider based at least on the storage rule.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the privacy settings specify an amount of abstraction for the portions of the user information to be provided to particular user information consumers.

8 . A system comprising:
one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving user information entered by a user through a user interface;
generating a user profile based at least on the user information;
receiving an identification of particular storage provider location from the user through the user interface;
storing the user profile at the particular storage provider location;
receiving privacy settings from the user, the privacy settings specifying portions of the user information to be provided to particular user information consumers;
receiving a request from the user to access a network resource associated with a particular user information consumer; and
in response to receiving the request to access the network resource associated with the particular user information consumer:
obtaining the user profile from the particular storage provider location;
generating a user information collection including at least a portion of the user information from the user profile, wherein the portion of the user information included in the collection is determined based on the portion of the user information specified for the particular user information consumer in the privacy settings; and
providing the generated user information collection to the particular user information consumer.

9 . The system of claim 8 , the operations comprising:
receiving content from the particular user information consumer, where the content is customized based at least on the generated user information collection.

10 . The system of claim 8 , wherein generating a user information collection including at least a portion of the user information from the user profile comprises:
abstracting the portion of the user information based at least on the privacy settings.

11 . The system of claim 8 , wherein receiving an identification of a particular storage provider location from the user through the user interface comprises:
receiving, through the user interface, (i) an identification of the particular storage provider location and (ii) account credentials, of the user, associated with the particular storage provider location.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein obtaining the user profile from the particular storage provider location comprises:
providing the account credentials to the particular storage provider location; selecting a storage rule associated with the particular storage provider location from a collection of storage rules associated with corresponding storage provider locations; and obtaining the user profile from the particular storage provider location based on the storage rule.

13 . The system of claim 8 , wherein storing the user profile at the particular storage provider location comprises:
selecting a storage rule associated with the particular storage provider location from a collection of storage rules associated with corresponding storage provider locations; and storing the user profile at the particular storage provider based at least on the storage rule.

14 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the privacy settings specify an amount of abstraction for the portions of the user information to be provided to particular user information consumers.

15 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving user information entered by a user through a user interface; generating a user profile based at least on the user information; receiving an identification of particular storage provider location from the user through the user interface; storing the user profile at the particular storage provider location; receiving privacy settings from the user, the privacy settings specifying portions of the user information to be provided to particular user information consumers; receiving a request from the user to access a network resource associated with a particular user information consumer; and in response to receiving the request to access the network resource associated with the particular user information consumer:
obtaining the user profile from the particular storage provider location;
generating a user information collection including

Assignees

• Accenture Global Services Ltd

Inventors

• Seaward Leona
• Fry Jocelyn A
• Allen Julian Henry
• Beaumont Richard

Classifications

• H04W12/02

  Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII] · CPC title

• G06F21/60

  Protecting data · CPC title

• H04L63/104 Primary

  Grouping of entities · CPC title

• G06F21/6272

  by registering files or documents with a third party · CPC title

• G06F21/6218

  to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database · CPC title