SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM, SERVICE COMPUTER, AND TERMINAL

• US 20150142865A1
• Filed: 05/15/2013
• Published: 05/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Atsushi, Nagai, Yasushi, Matsumoto, Takashi, Endo, Hiroyoshi, Osafune, Tatsuaki, Sawajiri, Haruhiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,641,602 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A service provision system comprises a first terminal, a service computer, and a user registration module. The first terminal includes an application management module to which second identification information is assigned, for managing the application to which first identification information is assigned, and an anonymous personal data transmission module for transmitting the anonymous personal data including the first identification information and the second identification information. The user registration module transmits user registration data including the second identification information and third identification information, in a case of inputting third identification information. The service computer stores, in a case of receiving the anonymous personal data, the first identification information, the second identification information, and the anonymous personal data in association with each other, and stores, in a case of receiving the user registration data, the second identification information and the third identification information in association with each other.

Claims

1. A service provision system for providing a service to a user, comprising:

a first terminal used by the user;

a service computer for providing the service and storing anonymous personal data received from the first terminal; and

a user registration module for receiving an input for user registration, wherein;

the first terminal includes;

an application execution module for providing the service and executing an application to which first identification information is assigned;

an application management module to which second identification information is assigned, for managing the application; and

an anonymous personal data transmission module for transmitting the anonymous personal data generated by the application execution module executing the application to the service computer by including therein the first identification information and the second identification information;

the user registration module acquires the second identification information in a case where third identification information serving as identification information on the user is input for the user registration, and transmits user registration data including the acquired second identification information and the input third identification information to the service computer; and

the service computer includes;

an anonymous personal data storage module for storing, in a case of receiving the anonymous personal data transmitted by the anonymous personal data transmission module, the first identification information and the second identification information that are included in the anonymous personal data and the anonymous personal data in a storage area in association with each other; and

an anonymous personal data consolidation module for storing, in a case of receiving the user registration data transmitted by the user registration module, the second identification information and the third identification information that are included in the user registration data in association with each other, to thereby consolidate the anonymous personal data into the third identification information.

2. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein:

the first terminal includes a first identification information assigning module for acquiring the first identification information by using one of a first method and a second method in a case where the application is first executed by the application execution module, and assigning the acquired first identification information to the application;

in the first method;

the first identification information assigning module transmits, to the service computer, a first identification information acquisition request for acquiring the first identification information in case where the application is first executed;

the service computer generates the first identification information in a case of receiving the first identification information acquisition request, and transmits the generated first identification information to the first terminal; and

the first identification information assigning module receives and acquires the first identification information from the service computer; and

in the second method, the first identification information assigning module generates and acquires the first identification information in a case where the application is first executed.

3. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein:

the first terminal includes a second identification information assigning module for acquiring the second identification information by using one of a third method and a fourth method in a case where the application management module is first executed, and assigning the acquired second identification information to the application management module;

in the third method;

the second identification information assigning module transmits, to the service computer, a second identification information acquisition request for acquiring the second identification information in a case where the application management module is first executed;

the service computer generates the second identification information in a case of receiving the second identification information acquisition request, and transmits the generated second identification information to the first terminal; and

the second identification information assigning module receives and acquires the second identification information from the service computer; and

in the fourth method, the second identification information assigning module generates and acquires the second identification information in a case where the application management module is first executed.

4. The service provision system according to claim 1, further comprising a second terminal used by the same user as the first terminal, wherein:

the second terminal includes the application execution module, the application management module, and the anonymous personal data transmission module;

the user registration module transmits, after the anonymous personal data associated with the second identification information on the first terminal is consolidated into the third identification information on the user by the anonymous personal data consolidation module, the user registration data including the third identification information on the user and the second identification information on the second terminal to the service computer; and

the anonymous personal data consolidation module stores, in a case of receiving the user registration data after the anonymous personal data associated with the second identification information on the first terminal is consolidated into the third identification information on the user, the second identification information on the second terminal and the third identification information that are included in the received user registration data in association with each other.

5. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein:

the user registration module transmits, after the application is uninstalled from the first terminal, the user registration data to the service computer; and

the anonymous personal data consolidation module stores, in a case of receiving the user registration data, the second identification information and the third identification information that are included in the user registration data in association with each other, to thereby consolidate the anonymous personal data on the uninstalled application into the third identification information.

6. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein:

the user registration module transmits, to the service computer, the user registration data further including application-identifiable information that allows the application to be identified, in order to place a limit to the application generating the anonymous personal data to be consolidated into the third identification information by the anonymous personal data consolidation module; and

the anonymous personal data consolidation module is configured to;

search the anonymous personal data stored in the storage area for the anonymous personal data generated by the application identified by the application-identifiable information included in the user registration data; and

consolidate the retrieved anonymous personal data into the third identification information.

7. The service provision system according to claim 1, further comprising a third terminal including the user registration module.

8. The service provision system according to claim 7, wherein:

the first terminal displays the second identification information in a case of receiving a predetermined operation from the user; and

the user registration module receives an input of the second identification information from the user, to thereby acquire the second identification information.

9. The service provision system according to claim 7, wherein the user registration module receives the second identification information from the first terminal via one of wireless communications, wired communications, and a nonvolatile storage area, to thereby acquire the second identification information.

10. The service provision system according to claim 7, wherein:

the first terminal transmits, to the service computer, an issuance request for identification information with an expiration date, which is unique only during a predetermined time period, by including therein the second identification information;

the service computer generates, in a case of receiving the issuance request, the identification information with the expiration date having a smaller number of digits than that of the second identification information, stores the generated identification information with the expiration date and the second identification information included in the received issuance request in association with each other, and transmits the generated identification information with the expiration date to the first terminal that has transmitted the issuance request;

the first terminal that has received the identification information with the expiration date displays the identification information with the expiration date;

the user registration module transmits, in a case of receiving an input of the third identification information and the displayed identification information with the expiration date, the user registration data including the identification information with the expiration date instead of the second identification information to the service computer; and

the anonymous personal data consolidation module is configured to;

identify, in a case of receiving the user registration data, the second identification information associated with the identification information with the expiration date included in the user registration data; and

store the identified second identification information and the third identification information in association with each other.

11. The service provision system according to claim 1, wherein the first terminal is configured to execute a plurality of the applications, and includes the user registration module.

12. The service provision system according to claim 11, further comprising a third terminal for presenting the user with a message for prompting the user to input the third identification information to the user registration module provided to the first terminal.

13. A service computer for providing, in a service provision system for providing a service to a user, the service to the user, and storing anonymous personal data received from a terminal used by the user,

the terminal being configured to transmit the anonymous personal data generated by executing an application to which first identification information is assigned to the service computer by including therein second identification information assigned to an application management module for managing the application,

the service computer being coupled to a user registration module for acquiring the second identification information in a case where third identification information serving as identification information on the user is input, and transmitting user registration data including the acquired second identification information and the input third identification information to the service computer,

the service computer comprising:

an anonymous personal data storage module for storing, in a case of receiving the anonymous personal data transmitted by the terminal, the first identification information and the second identification information that are included in the anonymous personal data and the anonymous personal data in a storage area in association with each other; and

an anonymous personal data consolidation module for storing, in a case of receiving the user registration data transmitted by the user registration module, the second identification information and the third identification information that are included in the user registration data in association with each other, to thereby consolidate the anonymous personal data into the third identification information.

14. A terminal to be used by a user in a service provision system for providing a service to the user,

the service provision system including:

a service computer for providing the service and storing anonymous personal data received from the terminal; and

a user registration module for receiving an input for user registration,

the terminal comprising;

an application execution module for providing the service and executing an application to which first identification information is assigned;

an application management module to which second identification information is assigned, for managing the application; and

an anonymous personal data transmission module for transmitting the anonymous personal data to the service computer by including therein the first identification information and the second identification information in order to store the anonymous personal data generated by the application execution module executing the application on the service computer in association with the first identification information and the second identification information,

wherein the user registration module is configured to;

acquire the second identification information in a case where third identification information serving as identification information on the user is input for the user registration; and

transmit user registration data including the acquired second identification information and the input third identification information to the service computer in order to consolidate the anonymous personal data into the third identification information by storing the second identification information and the third identification information on the service computer in association with each other.