Systems, apparatus, and methods for configuring device data streams

• US 10,455,021 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2014
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Collins, Michael David, Goldman, David W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Carpenter, Robert K
• Application Number:
  US14/563,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20160164972A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,779 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/065 Continuous authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/128 Anti-malware arrangements, e.g. protection against SMS fraud or mobile malware
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

Configuring device data streams (DDSs) of a mobile device is described herein. DDSs can include sensor data (captured from one or more sensors of the mobile device) and user-specific data (including application data from applications executed via the mobile device, as well as non-application data). DDS configuration parameters define modifications for the user-specific data and/or the sensor data of the DDS; these modifications can include removing or altering the user-specific data and/or the sensor data. DDSs can be sent to an external storage device via a network, and DDS modifications can be made at the mobile device or at the external storage device. Modified DDSs can be provided to requestors, and thus, the DDS configuration parameters allow a user to control what data is, or is not, included in a DDS for reasons related to privacy, data usage, etc.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-useable storage medium embodying instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a process including operations to:

capture sensor data from one or more sensors included in a mobile computing device during execution of at least one of a plurality of applications;

receive, by the mobile computing device, a first input defining a first set of device data stream configuration parameters for a first data requester;

edit a device data stream via the mobile computing device based, at least in part, on the first set of device data stream configuration parameters, the device data stream to comprise;

the captured sensor data;

user-specific data separate from the captured sensor data and including application data from the plurality of applications executed via the mobile computing device, the device data stream configuration parameters to define modifications for the user-specific data, including the application data from the plurality of applications, and the sensor data of the device data stream; and

transmit the edited device data stream to the first data requestor.

2. The non-transitory machine-usable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the sensor data comprises sensor data from a plurality of sensors included in the mobile computing device, and wherein the device data stream configuration parameters define modifications for the sensor data from each of the plurality of sensors.

3. The non-transitory machine-usable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the sensor data comprises data used by the plurality of applications of the mobile computing device, and wherein each of the plurality of applications are executed in isolated sandbox execution environments of the mobile computing device.

4. The non-transitory machine-useable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the sensor data comprises at least one of geo-location data, biometric data of the user, time data, environmental data, image data, and/or audio data.

5. The non-transitory machine-useable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the user-specific data further includes at least one of user login credentials, user communication data, and/or user account data for one or more services accessible via the mobile computing device.

6. The non-transitory machine-useable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the set of device data stream configuration parameters is to define captured sensor data and/or user-specific data to exclude from the edited device data stream.

7. The non-transitory machine-useable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the first input defines a time period to exclude first data from the device data stream, and wherein the editing of the device data stream excludes the first data during the defined time period based on the first input, wherein the editing includes the first data in the device data stream outside of the defined time period.

8. The non-transitory machine-useable storage medium of claim 1,

wherein the first input defines an accuracy level for the first data requestor, and wherein

the editing of the device data stream includes data at the defined accuracy level in the device data

stream based on the first input;

and wherein the process includes further operations to;

receive a second input from the user of the mobile computing device defining a second

accuracy level for a second data requestor;

second edit the device data stream via the mobile computing device to include data at the

second accuracy level based on the second input;

transmit the second edited data stream to the second data requestor.

9. The non-transitory machine-useable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the device data stream includes location data from a global positioning sensor (GPS) sensor, and

wherein the editing of the device data stream modifies the location data to achieve the first accuracy level by modifying a decimal degree of latitude and longitude measurements of the

location data based on the first input and

wherein the second editing of the device data stream modifies the location data to achieve the second accuracy level by modifying the decimal degree of latitude and longitude measurements included in the GPS sensor data differently than the modifications made for the first data requestor, the difference based on a difference between the first input and the second input.

13. The non-transitory machine-usable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the sensor data comprises sensor data from a plurality of sensors included in the mobile computing device, and wherein the device data stream configuration parameters define modifications for the sensor data from each of the plurality of sensors.

14. The non-transitory machine-usable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the sensor data comprises data used by the plurality of applications of the mobile computing device, and wherein each of the plurality of applications are executed in isolated sandbox execution environments of the mobile computing device.

10. A method comprising:

capturing sensor data from one or more sensors included in a mobile computing device during execution of at least one of a plurality of applications;

receiving, by the mobile computing device, a first input defining a first set of device data stream configuration parameters for a first data requester;

editing a device data stream via the mobile computing device based, at least in part, on a set of device data stream configuration parameters, the device data stream to include;

the captured sensor data; and

user-specific data separate from the captured sensor data and including application data from the plurality of applications executed via the mobile computing device;

the device data stream configuration parameters to define modifications for the user-specific data, including the application data from the plurality of applications, and the sensor data of the device data stream; and

transmitting the edited device data stream to the first data requester.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the sensor data comprises at least one of geo-location data, biometric data of the user, time data, environmental data, image data, and/or audio data.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the user-specific data further includes at least one of user login credentials, user communication data, and/or user account data for one or more services accessible via the mobile computing device.

15. A system, comprising:

one or more hardware processors and executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, perform operations comprising;

receiving a device data stream from a mobile computing device, the device data stream to include;

user-specific data including application data from a plurality of applications executed via the mobile computing device; and

sensor data from one or more sensors included in the mobile computing device captured during execution of at least one of the plurality of applications and separate from the user-specific data;

receiving a set of device data stream configuration parameters from the mobile computing device, the device data stream configuration parameters to define modifications for the user-specific data and/or the sensor data of the received device data stream;

editing the received device data stream according to the set of device data stream configuration parameters; and

transmitting the edited device data stream to a requesting server device.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the sensor data comprises at least one of geo-location data, biometric data of the user, time data, environmental data, image data, and/or audio data.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the user-specific data further includes at least one of user login credentials, user communication data, and/or user account data for one or more services accessed via the mobile computing device.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the set of device data stream configuration parameters is to define captured sensor data and/or user-specific data to remove from the received device data stream.

19. The non system of claim 18, wherein the set of device data stream configuration parameters is to define the captured sensor data and/or user-specific data from the edited device data stream to remove during one or more time periods.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifing the set of device data stream configuration parameters for the requesting server device from a plurality of sets of device data stream configuration parameters.