METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PRIVACY IN LOCATION-AWARE SYSTEMS
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- identifying a requestor;
assigning a privacy setting to share context information with the requester;
detecting a request for the context information from the requestor; and
transmitting the context information to the requestor based on the privacy setting.
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Abstract
In one embodiment a method is disclosed for accepting and enforcing user selectable privacy settings for context awareness including location awareness data on a computing platform. The method may identify a requestor, assign a privacy setting to the requester then detect a request for location information from the requestor. The method may transmit location information to the requester based on the user selected privacy setting. The user selected privacy setting may have a granularity assigned to each requestor based on a privacy preference and the method may entirely block the location information from being disclosed or the method may modify the granularity/accuracy of the location information based on the privacy setting to report context of an appropriate level of granularity according to the privacy setting configured by the user. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
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15 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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identifying a requestor; assigning a privacy setting to share context information with the requester; detecting a request for the context information from the requestor; and transmitting the context information to the requestor based on the privacy setting. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system comprising:
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a privacy configurator to accept user input regarding user selectable privacy settings regarding treatment of location data, the privacy settings having a requestor and a requestor-specific privacy setting; a requestor identifier to identify a requestor of the location data; and a policy checker to control access to the location data based on the user input. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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