Methods and systems for managing one or more services and/or device data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9619497-B2
Application number	US-201213731947-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 31, 2012
Priority date	Oct 30, 2012
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring obscured data, said obscured data including property data regarding at least one property of one or more devices, wherein said obscured data has been obscured to avoid uniquely identifying the one or more devices, acquiring one or more services configured to be carried out on the one or more devices, said acquiring at least partly based on the acquired obscured data including the property data regarding at least one property of the one or more devices, and offering the one or more services in exchange for access to identifying data configured to uniquely identify the one or more devices associated with the property data. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device, comprising:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module;
a one or more services designed to be at least partly executed through use of the one or more devices acquiring at least partly based on the acquired obscured data that avoids particular identification module; and
an acquired one or more services as return for access to particularly identifying data of the one or more devices associated with attribute data offering module.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of more than one devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of individual devices of the more than one devices acquiring module, wherein the devices are smartphone devices and the at least one attribute is a location attribute with device identifiers removed.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references a number of devices having at least one attribute at a particular time in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module, wherein the at least one attribute is a location attribute and the obscured data is an encrypted user identification data.

4. The device of claim 3 , wherein said obscured data that references a number of devices having at least one attribute at a particular time in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references a number of devices having a particular type of data at a particular time in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module, wherein the obscured data is a device identifier in which characters of the device identifier have been replaced with characters from a lookup table.

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices until deobscured acquiring module.

6. The device of claim 5 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices until deobscured acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices until deobscured via data manipulation acquiring module.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices through obscuring device identification data acquiring module.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices by at least partially encrypting identification data acquiring module.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices by applying one or more reversible algorithms to identification data acquiring module.

10. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices by replacing identification data with data retrieved from a static table acquiring module.

11. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices by replacing identification data with ordered data configured to appear random acquiring module.

12. The device of claim 1 , wherein said obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
an obscured data that references at least one attribute of one or more devices in a manner that avoids particular identification of the one or more devices by inserting false identification data acquiring module.

13. The device of claim 1 , wherein said one or more services designed to be at least partly executed through use of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
a friend-finding service configured to locate one or more entities identified in the smartphone and to present a notification on the smartphone when one or more of the located entities are detected at a particular location acquiring module, wherein said acquiring is at least partly based on a smartphone contact list property of having more than twenty-five contacts that are of a particular age.

14. The device of claim 1 , wherein said one or more services designed to be at least partly executed through use of the one or more devices acquiring module comprises:
a one or more services designed to be at least partly executed through use the one or more devices request transmitting module, wherein said request is at least partly based on the acquired obscured data that avoids particular device identification; and
a receiving the requested one or more services module.

15. The device of claim 14 , wherein said one or more services designed to be at least partly executed through use of the one or more devices request transmitting module comprises:
a one or more services designed to be at least partly executed through use of the one or more devices request transmitting to an open exchange module.

16. The device of claim 15 , wherein said one or more services designed to be at least partly executed through use of the one or more devices request transmitting to an open exchange module comprises:
a one or more services designed to be at least partly executed through use of the one or more devices request posting to a social networking site module, where

Assignees

• Elwha Llc
• Elwah LLC

Inventors

• Jung Edward K Y
• Levien Royce A
• Lord Richard T
• Lord Robert W
• Malamud Mark A

Classifications

• G06F16/22 Primary

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures · CPC title

• G06F2221/2105

  Dual mode as a secondary aspect · CPC title

• G06F21/74

  operating in dual or compartmented mode, i.e. at least one secure mode · CPC title

• G06F21/60

  Protecting data · CPC title

• G06F21/6254

  by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification · CPC title