Genome sharing

• US 20090112871A1
• Filed: 10/14/2008
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 23andme Incorporated (23andMe Holding Co.)
• Original Assignee: 23andme Incorporated (23andMe Holding Co.)
• Inventors: Avey, Linda, Tihon, Jack, Hawthorne, Brian Lee, Miyazawa, Marcela, Mellen, Jeffrey, Polcari, Michael, Khomenko, Oleksiy, Wojcicki, Anne, Wong, Alexander
• Granted Patent: US 9,336,177 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 20/00 ICT specially adapted for functional genomics or proteomics, e.g. genotype-phenotype associations
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 20/20 Allele or variant detection, e.g. single nucleotide polymorphism [SNP] detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.

Claims

1. A method for sharing data, comprising:

receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account;

receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account;

establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, further including receiving an indication of at least one second account profile to share with the first account.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein each profile is associated with a different individual.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the data includes genetic data.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the data include phenotype data.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first account does not necessarily have read access to nonpublic data associated with the second account.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, further including determining a sharing level, wherein the sharing level indicates a subset of data from the first account profile to share with the second account.

8. A system for sharing data, comprising:

a first account associated with a plurality of first account profiles, wherein each first account profile includes nonpublic data; and

a second account;

wherein the second account has read access to a subset of the nonpublic data associated with each of the plurality of first account profiles.

9. A method for sharing data, comprising:

receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account;

receiving an indication of a first account profile associated with a first account to share with a second account;

establishing sharing from the first account profile to the second account, wherein sharing comprises;

(1) the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the first account profile; and

(2) the first account not necessarily having read access to nonpublic data associated with the second account.

10. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein there are no profiles associated with the second account.

11. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein each profile is associated with a different individual.

12. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the data includes genetic data.

13. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein the data include phenotype data.

14. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein receiving an indication includes receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account.

15. A method as recited in claim 9, further including determining a sharing level, wherein the sharing level indicates a subset of data from the first account profile to share with the second account.

16. A method for sharing data, comprising:

receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account;

receiving an indication of a first account profile associated with a first account to share with a second account;

determining a sharing level, wherein the sharing level indicates a subset of data associated with the first account profile to share with the second account; and

establishing sharing from the first account profile to the second account based at least in part on the sharing level, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to the subset of data associated with the first account profile.

17. A method as recited in claim 16, further including receiving an indication of at least one second account profile to share with the first account.

18. A method as recited in claim 16, wherein the sharing level is a basic sharing level associated with a basic set of data or an extended sharing level associated with a superset of the basic set of data.

19. A method as recited in claim 16, wherein each profile is associated with a different individual.

20. A method as recited in claim 16, wherein the data includes genetic data.

21. A method as recited in claim 16, wherein the data include phenotype data.

22. A method as recited in claim 16, wherein receiving an indication includes receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account.

23. A method as recited in claim 16, wherein the first account does not necessarily have read access to nonpublic data associated with the second account.