Systems And Methods For Personal Digital Data Ownership And Vaulting

• US 20100262837A1
• Filed: 04/13/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Personal Blackbox Co. LLC
• Original Assignee: Personal Blackbox Co. LLC
• Inventors: Kulin, Haluk
• Application Number:
  US12/759,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20100262837A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/189
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/603 Digital right managament [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/80 Wireless network architectures or network communication protocols for wireless network security H04W12/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/321 involving a third party or a trusted authority

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for aggregating user-generated digital information. As an example, a system and method can be configured to collect, throughout a current day, a plurality of digital data receipts from different classes of information representing the user activities of a single user; encrypt each data receipt using an encryption method under the control of the user; rout each encrypted data receipt to a first storage facility; and aggregate the encrypted data receipts associated with the user at a second storage facility.

Claims

1. A processor-implemented method for collecting and providing user-controlled access to user-generated digital information, said method comprising:

collecting, throughout a current day, a plurality of digital data receipts from different classes of information representing the user activities of a single user;

encrypting each data receipt using an encryption method under the control of the user;

routing each encrypted data receipt to a first storage facility;

aggregating the encrypted data receipts associated with the user at a second storage facility; and

providing user controlled access to a third party to at least a portion of the data from the aggregated data receipts;

said portion of the data from the aggregated data receipts being generated by;

generating a personal algorithm from the aggregated data receipts;

identifying digital rights management criteria for the data; and

filtering the data based on the personal algorithm and the digital rights management criteria; and

said collecting, encrypting, routing, aggregating, generating, identifying and filtering steps being performed by one or more data processors.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the different classes of information representing the user activities are selected from a group of classes comprising purchase information, attention information, claim data, medical information, education information, financial information and personal data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the encrypting step utilizes a public key infrastructure.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first storage facility is provided by a service provider via the Internet.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the encrypting and routing steps are performed in real-time or near real-time.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second storage facility is provided by a service provider via the Internet.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second storage facility is provided by hardware located within the user'"'"'s home network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second storage facility is provided as a virtual drive in the user'"'"'s home network.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving a user benefit from the third party in exchange for access to the portion of the data.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing user controlled access to a third party step comprises:

providing an online terminal for use by the third party in requesting data; and

providing requested data to the third party based on the user'"'"'s consent to data access.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user provides consent to data access via a personal digital rights management system.

12. A method for collecting and providing user-controlled access to user-generated digital information, said method comprising:

receiving, throughout a current day, a plurality of digital data receipts from different classes of information representing the user activity of multiple users;

uniquely encrypting each data receipt wherein each user has control over the encryption method applied to its data receipts;

storing each encrypted data receipt at a first computer storage location;

aggregating for each user at a unique computer storage location for each user the encrypted data receipts associated with that user;

providing user controlled access to a third party to at least a portion of the data from the aggregated data receipts;

said portion of the data from the aggregated data receipts being generated by;

generating a personal algorithm for each user from the aggregated data receipts;

identifying digital rights management criteria for the data; and

filtering the data based on the personal algorithm and the digital rights management criteria; and

said receiving, encrypting, storing, aggregating, generating, identifying and filtering steps being performed by one or more data processors.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the different classes of information representing the user activities are selected from a group of classes comprising purchase information, attention information, claim data, medical information, education information, financial information and personal data;

and wherein the encrypting and routing steps are performed in real-time or near real-time.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second storage facility is provided by hardware located within the user'"'"'s home network.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the second storage facility is provided as a virtual drive in the user'"'"'s home network.

16. The method of claim 12 further comprising receiving a user benefit from the third party in exchange for access to the portion of the data, and wherein the providing user controlled access to a third party step comprises:

providing an online terminal for use by the third party in requesting data; and

providing requested data to the third party based on the user'"'"'s consent to data access.

17. A data acquisition system for collecting and providing user-controlled access to user-generated digital information, comprising:

a router for executing on one or more data processors and for collecting, throughout a current day, a plurality of digital data receipts from different classes of information representing the user activities of a single user;

an encryption engine executing on the one or more data processors and for encrypting each data receipt using an encryption method under the control of the user;

a first computer storage facility for storing each encrypted data receipt;

a second computer storage facility for aggregating the encrypted data receipts associated with the user; and

a terminal engine executing on the one or more data processors for providing user controlled access to a third party to at least a portion of the data from the aggregated data receipts.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

software code executing on one or more data processors for generating a personal algorithm for each user from the aggregated data receipts, for identifying digital rights management criteria for the data, and for filtering the data based on the personal algorithm and the digital rights management criteria; and

wherein the different classes of information representing the user activities are selected from a group of classes comprising purchase information, attention information, claim data, medical information, education information, financial information and personal data; and

wherein the second storage facility comprises a virtual drive accessible in the user'"'"'s home network.

19. The system of claim 17, further comprising software code executing on one or more data processors for providing a virtual terminal for use by the third party in requesting data and for providing requested data to the third party based on the user'"'"'s consent to data access.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the second storage facility comprises hardware located within the user'"'"'s home network.