Identifying a Locale for Controlling Capture of Data by a Digital Life Recorder Based on Location

• US 20090295911A1
• Filed: 05/30/2008
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Stevens, Mark B., Wilson, John David, Grim, Clifton E. III, Ward, Gary A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,270,950 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/61
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/442 Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed, the storage space available from the internal hard disk arrangements for monitoring broadcast services or broadcast-related services H04H60/29; arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information H04H60/35; monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; monitoring in wireless networks H04W24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4627 Rights management associated to the content security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8355 involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/913 for scrambling ; for copy protection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product controlling a capture of data. In one embodiment, the process identifies a location from locale identifier data to form an identified location in response to receiving the locale identifier data. The locale identifier data is associated with a location of the digital life recorder. In addition, the identified location is associated with a set of usage policies. The process then determines whether the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data by the digital life recorder at the identified location or whether the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by a playback system. Thereafter, the process disables a set of sensors while the digital life recorder is in the presence of the locale identifier in response to determining that the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for controlling a capture of data by a digital life recorder, the computer implemented method comprising:

responsive to receiving locale identifier data associated with a location of the digital life recorder, identifying the location from the locale identifier data to form an identified location, wherein the identified location is associated with a set of usage policies;

determining whether the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data by the digital life recorder at the identified location or whether the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by a playback system; and

responsive to determining that the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data, disabling a set of sensors while the digital life recorder is in the presence of a locale identifier.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by the playback system, tagging the data captured at the identified location with recording restrictions specified by the set of usage policies to form tagged data, wherein a presentation of the tagged data is restricted by the playback system.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the set of usage policies assigned to the identified location are applied to at least one of a type of location and a specific location.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the set of usage policies comprises an embedded usage policy specified by the locale identifier.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling the set of sensors in an absence of the locale identifier.

6. A computer program product for controlling a capture of data by a digital life recorder, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable medium;

first program instructions for identifying a location from locale identifier data to form an identified location in response to receiving the locale identifier data, wherein the locale identifier data is associated with the location of the digital life recorder, and wherein the identified location is associated with a set of usage policies;

second program instructions for determining whether the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data by the digital life recorder at the identified location or whether the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by a playback system;

third program instructions for disabling a set of sensors while the digital life recorder is in a presence of the locale identifier in response to determining that the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data; and

wherein the first program instructions and the second program instructions are stored on the computer readable medium.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising:

fourth program instructions for tagging the data captured at the identified location with recording restrictions specified by the set of usage policies to form tagged data in response to determining that the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by the playback system, wherein a presentation of the tagged data is restricted by the playback system.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the set of usage policies assigned to the identified location are applied to at least one of a type of location and a specific location.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the set of usage policies comprises an embedded usage policy specified by the locale identifier.

10. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising:

fifth program instructions for enabling the set of sensors in an absence of the locale identifier.

11. An apparatus for controlling a capture of data by a digital life recorder, the apparatus comprising:

a bus system;

a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes computer usable program code; and

a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the computer usable program code to identify a location from locale identifier data to form an identified location in response to receiving the locale identifier data, wherein the locale identifier data is associated with the location of the digital life recorder, and wherein the identified location is associated with a set of usage policies;

determine whether the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data by the digital life recorder at the identified location or whether the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by a playback system; and

disable a set of sensors while the digital life recorder is in a presence of the locale identifier in response to determining that the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processing unit further executes the computer usable program code to tag the data captured at the identified location with recording restrictions specified by the set of usage policies to form tagged data in response to determining that the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by the playback system, wherein a presentation of the tagged data is restricted by the playback system.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the set of usage policies assigned to the identified location are applied to at least one of a type of location and a specific location.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the set of usage policies comprises an embedded usage policy specified by the locale identifier.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processing unit further executes the computer usable program code to enable the set of sensors in an absence of the locale identifier.

16. A system for controlling a capture of data by a digital life recorder, the system comprising:

a locale identifier sensor, wherein the locale identifier sensor detects a presence of a locale identifier, and wherein the locale identifier is present in an identified location;

a usage policy controller, wherein the usage policy controller identifies a location from locale identifier data to form an identified location in response to receiving the locale identifier data, wherein the locale identifier data is associated with a location of the digital life recorder, and wherein the identified location is associated with a set of usage policies;

determines whether the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data by the digital life recorder at the identified location or whether the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by a playback system; and

disables a set of sensors while the digital life recorder is in a presence of the locale identifier in response to determining that the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the usage policy controller tags the data captured at the identified location with recording restrictions specified by the set of usage policies to form tagged data in response to determining that the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by the playback system, wherein a presentation of the tagged data is restricted by the playback system.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the set of usage policies comprises an embedded usage policy specified by the locale identifier.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the usage policy controller enables the set of sensors in an absence of the locale identifier.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the locale identifier is a radio frequency identification tag, and wherein the locale identifier sensor is a radio frequency identification tag reader.