SECURE PRIVATE DATA MODELS FOR CUSTOMIZED MAP CONTENT

• US 20150007043A1
• Filed: 06/28/2013
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Steinmetz, William Henry
• Application Number:
  US13/931,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20150007043A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/745
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence

Abstract

Computing systems may customize map content based on user specific data in a secure private data model without transferring any user-specific or identifying data to a remote network server. The secure private data model may isolate user specific data on respective client devices so that network servers do not have access to confidential information and cannot otherwise infer confidential information.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for personalizing navigation data from a remote mapping system without passing user specific data from a client computing device to the remote mapping system, the method comprising:

receiving a request for mapping data at the client device via a user interface of a mapping application executing on a processor of the client device, the request including user specific data and data identifying default map content data, the data identifying default map content data including a geographic location corresponding to a map location that is represented by default map content data stored at a remote mapping system server;

sending the data identifying default map content data from the client device to the remote mapping system server;

storing the user specific data locally in a client device database;

receiving default map content data identified by the remote mapping system using the sent data identifying default map content data from the request;

determining a user familiarity with the geographic location based on the locally stored user specific data; and

customizing the received identified default map content data at the client device using the determined familiarity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein customizing the received identified default map content data using the determined familiarity includes determining a number of past requests that included geographic locations within a threshold distance to the geographic location of the received request and modifying the identified default map content data received at the client device based on the determined number.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein modifying the identified default map content data received at the client device includes one or more of:

substituting, adding, or deleting line segments, geometric shapes, labels, markers, icons, or vector data from the identified default map content data received at the client device,

changing colors, highlights, zoom levels, or shading, of the identified default map content data received at the client device,

modifying an interactive element of the identified default map content data received at the client device, the interactive element including one or more of a virtual button, a scrollbar, a drop-down menu, or

adding or deleting a data layer of the identified default map content data received at the client device, the data layer including one or more of traffic information and advertisements.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the user specific data includes both client history data and client preference data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the client history data includes one or more of geographic location data corresponding to a home and work location for a user of the client device, navigation route data for a history of navigation actions using the device, a history of geographic query actions using the device, and display parameter data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the client preference data includes one or more of display setting data, relevant point of interest data, and navigation setting data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the default map content data includes one or more of point of interest data, text, color, and shading data, geometric shape data, coordinate reference data, and image data.

8. A mapping system configured to personalize navigation data from a remote mapping system without passing user specific data from a client device to the remote mapping system, the system comprising:

a client device including a first processor and a first memory, the first memory including a client device database, the first memory including instructions executed on the first processor to;

receive a request for mapping data, the request including user specific data and data identifying default map content data, the data identifying default map content data including a geographic location corresponding to a map location that is represented by default map content data stored at a remote mapping system server;

send the data identifying default map content data from the client device to the remote mapping system server;

store the user specific data locally in the client device database; and

determine a user familiarity with the geographic location based on the locally stored user specific data;

a network server including a second processor and a second memory, the second memory including instructions executed on the second processor to;

receive the data identifying default map content data from the client device;

identify default map content data corresponding to the received data;

store the received data in the second memory without storing any user specific data; and

send the identified default map content data to the client device;

wherein the first memory includes a further instruction executed on the first processor to receive the identified default map content data at the client device.

9. The mapping system of claim 8, wherein upon receiving the identified default map content data at the client device, the first processor executes a further instruction stored in the first memory to customize the received identified default map content data at the client device using the determined familiarity.

10. The mapping system of claim 9, wherein the instruction to customize the received identified default map content data using the determined familiarity includes further instructions to determine a number of past requests that included geographic locations within a threshold distance to the geographic location of the received request and modify the identified default map content data received at the client device based on the determined number.

11. The mapping system of claim 10, wherein the instructions to modify the identified default map content data received at the client device include one or more of instructions to:

substitute, add, or delete line segments, geometric shapes, labels, markers, icons, or vector data from the identified default map content data received at the client device,

change colors, highlights, zoom levels, or shading, of the identified default map content data received at the client device,

modify an interactive element of the identified default map content data received at the client device, the interactive element including one or more of a virtual button, a scrollbar, a drop-down menu, or

add or delete a data layer of the identified default map content data received at the client device, the data layer including one or more of traffic information and advertisements.

12. The mapping system of claim 8, wherein the user specific data includes both client history data and client preference data.

13. The mapping system of claim 12, wherein the client history data includes one or more of geographic location data corresponding to a home and work location for a user of the client device, navigation route data for a history of navigation actions using the device, a history of geographic query actions using the device, and display parameter data.

14. The mapping system of claim 13, wherein the client preference data includes one or more of display setting data, relevant point of interest data, and navigation setting data.

15. The mapping system of claim 14, wherein the default map content data includes one or more of point of interest data, text, color, and shading data, geometric shape data, coordinate reference data, and image data.

16. A tangible computer-readable medium including non-transitory computer readable instructions stored thereon for personalizing navigation data from a remote mapping system without passing user specific data from a client computing device to the remote mapping system, the instructions to:

receive a request for mapping data at the client device via a user interface of a mapping application executing on a processor of the client device, the request including user specific data and data identifying default map content data, the data identifying default map content data including a geographic location corresponding to a map location that is represented by default map content data stored at a remote mapping system server;

send the data identifying default map content data from the client device to the remote mapping system server;

store the user specific data locally in a client device database;

receive default map content data identified by the remote mapping system using the sent data identifying default map content data from the request;

determine a user familiarity with the geographic location based on the locally stored user specific data; and

customize the received identified default map content data at the client device using the determined familiarity.

17. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the instruction to customize the received identified default map content data using determined familiarity includes instructions to:

determine a number of past requests that included geographic locations within a threshold distance to the geographic location of the received request; and

modify the identified default map content data received at the client device based on the determined number.

18. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the instruction to modify the identified default map content data received at the client device includes an instruction to one or more of:

substitute, add, or delete line segments, geometric shapes, labels, markers, icons, or vector data from the identified default map content data received at the client device;

change colors, highlights, zoom levels, or shading, of the identified default map content data received at the client device;

modify an interactive element of the identified default map content data received at the client device, the interactive element including one or more of a virtual button, a scrollbar, a drop-down menu;

or

add or delete a data layer of the identified default map content data received at the client device, the data layer including one or more of traffic information and advertisements.

19. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the user specific data includes both client history data and client preference data, the client history data including one or more of geographic location data corresponding to a home and work location for a user of the client device, navigation route data for a history of navigation actions using the device, a history of geographic query actions using the device, and display parameter data, and the client preference data includes one or more of display setting data, relevant point of interest data, and navigation setting data.

20. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the default map content data includes one or more of point of interest data, text, color, and shading data, geometric shape data, coordinate reference data, and image data.