Computational systems and methods for regulating information flow during interactions

• US 10,198,729 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2011
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Davis, Marc E., Dyor, Matthew G., Gates, William, Huang, Xuedong, Hyde, Roderick A., Jung, Edward K. Y., Kare, Jordin T., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Lu, Qi, Malamud, Mark A., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Nadella, Satya, Reed, Daniel, Shum, Harry, Tegreene, Clarence T., Wood, Jr., Lowell L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wasel, Mohamed A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wu, Tsung Y
• Application Number:
  US13/374,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20130060620A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,595 Days
• Field of Search: 705 1423, 713150, 706 14, 709224, 726 21
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/384 using social networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/401 Transaction verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4014 Identity check for transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4016 involving fraud or risk level assessment in transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/405 Establishing or using transaction specific rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0185 Product, service or business identity fraud
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one request for personal information from a party to a transaction; evaluating the transaction; and negotiating presentation of at least one persona to the party to the transaction at least partly based on an evaluation of the transaction.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

(a) circuitry for accepting, as part of an electronic communication from a first user who is associated with a vehicle, at least the first user'"'"'s network-participation data, the first user'"'"'s network participation data including at least first user image data associated with the first user, the first user image data including at least image data associated with at least a portion of a face associated with the first user;

(b) circuitry for associating the first user image data with a profile of a real world user that is associated with a social network, the profile of the real world user including at least a real world name and an image of the real world user, the image of the real world user being associated with a social network, including at least;

(1) circuitry for associating the first user image data with the profile of the real world user at least in part by using facial recognition technology to associate the first user image data with the profile of the real world user;

(c) circuitry for determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database, the circuitry for determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database configured to determine to associate the real world user with the unique identifier if it determines that there is at least a first match between the real world user'"'"'s network participation data and stored network participation data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier and if it further determines that there is at least a second match between the real world user'"'"'s device-identifier data and stored device-identifier data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier; and

(d) circuitry for at least facilitating presentation of at least a portion of the profile to at least a second user, the at least a portion of the profile including at least the real world name and the image of the real world user, the circuitry for at least facilitating presentation configured to additionally facilitate presentation of at least some database-stored information regarding the real world user to at least the second user based at least in part on at least a determination to associate the real world user with the unique identifier by the circuitry for determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry for assigning a unique identifier to the first user at least partly based on the first user'"'"'s device-identifier data and the first user'"'"'s network-participation identifier data.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said circuitry for assigning a unique identifier to the first user at least partly based on the first user'"'"'s device-identifier data and the first user'"'"'s network-participation identifier data comprises:

circuitry for assigning at least one of a multi-digit decimal number, a multi-digit hexadecimal number, or a randomized code as the unique identifier.

4. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry for encrypting the unique identifier.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said circuitry for encrypting the unique identifier comprises:

circuitry for encrypting the unique identifier at least in part via at least one of symmetric key encryption, public key encryption, hybrid digital signature encryption, use of a one-way hash function, use of a random identifier, or use of a pseudo-random identifier.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein said circuitry for assigning a unique identifier to the first user at least partly based on the first user'"'"'s device-identifier data and the first user'"'"'s network-participation identifier data comprises:

circuitry for assigning to the unique identifier geo-locator data from the communication device associated with the first user, wherein the geo-locator data is indicative or one or more locations of at least the first user and the vehicle.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said circuitry for assigning to the unique identifier geo-locator data from the communication device associated with the first user, wherein the geo-locator data is indicative or one or more locations of at least the first user and the vehicle comprises:

circuitry for assigning to the unique identifier geo-locator data obtained via a global positioning satellite function of the at least one communication device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for accepting, as part of an electronic communication from a first user who is associated with a vehicle, at least the first user'"'"'s network-participation data, the first user'"'"'s network participation data including at least first user image data associated with the first user, the first user image data including at least image data associated with at least a portion of a face associated with the first user comprises:

at least one of;

circuitry for accepting the first user'"'"'s network-participation data via an electronic communication via one or more communication networks from a remote communication device associated with the first user;

circuitry for accepting at least a portion of network-participation identifier data of the first user that is associated with at least one of a social security number, a national identification card, a passport number, a tax identification number, an internet domain, or a authentication certificate;

circuitry for accepting, as at least a portion of the network-participation data of the first user, at least social networking data corresponding to at least one verified real-world user of at least one communication device;

circuitry for accepting social networking data that includes at least one of image data, constellation of social contact data, or user input data;

or

circuitry for accepting at least information associated with the vehicle.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the circuitry for accepting at least information associated with the vehicle comprises:

circuitry for accepting at least geo-location data associated with the vehicle and the first user.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for accepting, as part of an electronic communication from a first user who is associated with a vehicle, at least the first user'"'"'s network-participation data, the first user'"'"'s network participation data including at least first user image data associated with the first user, the first user image data including at least image data associated with at least a portion of a face associated with the first user comprises:

circuitry for accepting the first user image data as at least a portion of an authentication process.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for associating the first user image data with a profile of a real world user that is associated with a social network, the profile of the real world user including at least a real world name and an image of the real world user, the image of the real world user being associated with a social network comprises:

circuitry for associating a digital photograph of the first user with at least one or more attributes of the real world user.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for associating the first user image data with the profile of the real world user at least in part by using facial recognition technology to associate the first user image data with the profile of the real world user comprises:

circuitry for applying facial recognition technology to the first user image data to associate the first user image data with at least one or more attributes of a real world user that include at least one of geographic, demographic, or other identifying attributes.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for at least facilitating presentation of at least a portion of the profile to at least a second user, the at least a portion of the profile including at least the real world name and the image of the real world user comprises:

circuitry for facilitating presentation of, in addition to the at least a portion of the profile including at least the real world name and the image of the real world user, at least vehicle information.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the vehicle information includes at least geo-location data associated with the user and the vehicle.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for at least facilitating presentation of at least a portion of the profile to at least a second user, the at least a portion of the profile including at least the real world name and the image of the real world user, the circuitry for at least facilitating presentation configured to additionally facilitate presentation of at least some database-stored information regarding the real world user to at least the second user based at least in part on at least a determination to associate the real world user with the unique identifier by the circuitry for disambiguating an identity of the real world user from one or more other identities comprises:

circuitry for facilitating display of the at least a portion of the profile and of the at least some database-stored information on a mobile device associated with the second user.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for at least facilitating presentation of at least a portion of the profile to at least a second user, the at least a portion of the profile including at least the real world name and the image of the real world user, the circuitry for at least facilitating presentation configured to additionally facilitate presentation of at least some database-stored information regarding the real world user to at least the second user based at least in part on at least a determination to associate the real world user with the unique identifier by the circuitry for disambiguating an identity of the real world user from one or more other identities comprises:

circuitry for facilitating presentation of the at least a portion of the profile and of the at least some database-stored information at least in part by transmitting at least the at least a portion of the profile and the at least some database-stored information via one or more communication networks to a remote communication device associated with the second user.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for accepting, as part of an electronic communication from a first user who is associated with a vehicle, at least the first user'"'"'s network-participation data, the first user'"'"'s network participation data including at least first user image data associated with the first user, the first user image data including at least image data associated with at least a portion of a face associated with the first user comprises:

circuitry for accepting at least network-participation data of the first user associated with at least the vehicle, the network participation data including at least a digital photograph of the first user, the digital photograph including at least an image of at least a portion of a face associated with the first user.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for associating the first user image data with a profile of a real world user that is associated with a social network, the profile of the real world user including at least a real world name and an image of the real world user, the image of the real world user being associated with a social network comprises:

circuitry for associating the first user image data with a social network profile of a real world user.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for associating the first user image data with a profile of a real world user that is associated with a social network, the profile of the real world user including at least a real world name and an image of the real world user, the image of the real world user being associated with a social network comprises:

circuitry for associating the first user image data with a profile of a real world user that is associated with a social network, the profile of the real world user including at least a real world name and an image of the real world user, the image of the real world user being associated with a social network profile.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database, the circuitry for determining whether to associate the real worls user with a unique identifier in a database configured to determine to associate the real world user with the unique identifier if it determines that there is at least a first match between the real world user'"'"'s network participation data and stored network participation data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier and if it further determines that there is at least a second match between the real world user'"'"'s device-identifier data and stored device-identifier data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier comprises:

circuitry for determining not to associate real world user with the unique identifier based at least in part on a first determination that there is at least the first match but not the second match or a second determination that there is at least the second match but not the first match.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein said circuitry for determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database, the circuitry for determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database configured to determine to associate the real world user with the unique identifier if it determines that there is at least a first match between the real world user'"'"'s network participation data and stored network participation data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier and if it further determines that there is at least a second match between the real world user'"'"'s device-identifier data and stored device-identifier data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier comprises:

circuitry for circuitry for determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database, wherein the database is associated with a telecommunications company and includes at least one or more unique identifiers that are associated with one or more unique combinations of device-identifier data and network participation data that are associated with one or more verified real world users.

22. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry for the accepting, as part of the electronic communication from the first user, at least the first user'"'"'s device-identifier data corresponding to at least one communication device that is associated with the first user.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein said circuitry for the accepting, as part of the electronic communication from the first user, at least the first user'"'"'s device-identifier data corresponding to at least one communication device that is associated with the first user comprises:

at least one of;

circuitry for accepting device-identifier data corresponding to at least one of a mobile phone, a wired telephone, a voice-over-internet-protocol telephone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, or a networked television;

or

circuitry for accepting at least one of an internet protocol address, a Media Access Control address (“

MAC address”

), an email address, or a telephone number.

24. A system comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium bearing one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processing components, direct performance of operations that include at least;

(1) accepting, as part of an electronic communication from a first user who is associated with a vehicle, at least the first user'"'"'s network-participation data, the first user'"'"'s network participation data including at least first user image data associated with the first user, the first user image data including at least image data associated with at least a portion of a face associated with the first user, the accepting being performed at least in part by receiving the first user'"'"'s network-participation data via one or more communication networks;

(2) associating the first user image data with a profile of a real world user that is associated with a social network, the profile of the real world user including at least a real world name and an image of the real world user, the image of the real world user being associated with a social network, the associating including at least associating the first user image data with the profile of the real world user at least in part with facial recognition technology;

(3) determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database, including at least determining to associate the real world user with the unique identifier if there is a determination of at least a first match between the real world user'"'"'s network participation data and stored network participation data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier and if there is a further determination of at least a second match between the real world user'"'"'s device-identifier data and stored device-identifier data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier; and

(4) facilitating presentation of at least a portion of the profile to at least a second user on a mobile communication device associated with the second user, the at least a portion of the profile including at least the real world name and the image of the real world user, the facilitating presentation including at least additionally facilitating presentation of at least some database-stored information regarding the real world user to at least the second user on the mobile communication device based at least in part on at least a determination to associate the real world user with the unique identifier in the database.

25. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium includes a recordable medium.

26. A system comprising:

a computing device including at least one non-transitory signal bearing medium bearing one or more instructions that when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to

(1) accept, as part of an electronic communication from a first user who is associated with a vehicle, at least the first user'"'"'s network-participation data, the first user'"'"'s network participation data including at least first user image data associated with the first user, the first user image data including at least image data associated with at least a portion of a face associated with the first user;

(2) associate the first user image data with a profile of a real world user that is associated with a social network, the profile of the real world user including at least a real world name and an image of the real world user, the image of the real world user being associated with a social network, the associating including at least associating the first user image data with the profile of the real world user at least in part with facial recognition technology;

(3) determine whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database, including at least determining to associate the real world user with the unique identifier if there is a determination of at least a first match between the real world user'"'"'s network participation data and stored network participation data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier and if there is a further determination of at least a second match between the real world user'"'"'s device-identifier data and stored device-identifier data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier; and

(4) facilitate presentation of at least a portion of the profile on a second communication device associated with a second user, the at least a portion of the profile including at least the real world name and the image of the real world user, the facilitate presentation including at least additionally facilitating presentation of at least some database-stored information regarding the real world user on the second communication device based at least in part on at least a determination to associate the real world user with the unique identifier in the database.

27. The system of claim 26 wherein the computing device comprises:

at least one of a personal digital assistant (PDA), a personal entertainment device, a mobile phone, a laptop computer, a tablet personal computer, a networked computer, a computing system comprised of a cluster of processors, a computing system comprised of a cluster of servers, a workstation computer, or a desktop computer.

28. A computer-implemented method performed on one or more servers, the method comprising:

accepting as part of an electronic communication to the one or more servers from a first remote computing device associated with a first user at least the first user'"'"'s network-participation data, the first user being associated with the at least a vehicle, the network participation data including at least first user image data associated with the first user, the first user image data including at least an image data associated with at least a portion of a face associated with the first user;

associating the first user image data with a profile of a real world user that is associated with a social network, the profile of the real world user including at least a real world name and an image of the real world user, the image of the real world user being associated with a social network, the associating including at least associating the first user image data with the profile of the real world user at least in part with facial recognition technology;

determining whether to associate the real world user with a unique identifier in a database, including at least determining to associate the real world user with the unique identifier if there is a determination of at least a first match between the real world user'"'"'s network participation data and stored network participation data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier and if there is a further determination of at least a second match between the real world user'"'"'s device-identifier data and stored device-identifier data that is associated in the database with the unique identifier; and

transmitting to a second remote computing device associated with a second user at least a portion of the profile for presentation to at least the second user on the second remote computing device, the at least a portion of the profile including at least the real world name and the image of the real world user, the transmitting including at least additionally transmitting to the second remote computing device for presentation to at least the second user at least of at least some database-stored information regarding the real world user based at least in part on a determination to associate the real world user with the unique identifier in the database.