METHOD FOR MANAGING PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN A SOCIAL NETWORK BY CHECKING SHARED DATA AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN USERS

• US 20150371015A1
• Filed: 01/23/2014
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nilo Garcia Manchado, Spotlinker, SL
• Original Assignee: Nilo Garcia Manchado, Spotlinker, SL
• Inventors: GARCIA MANCHADO, Nilo
• Application Number:
  US14/763,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20150371015A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1015 to users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6263 during internet communication, e.g. revealing personal data from cookies
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2145 Inheriting rights or properties, e.g., propagation of permissions or restrictions within a hierarchy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/04 for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]

Abstract

The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for managing privacy and security in a social network, by checking shared data and relationships with other users, said method comprising the use of a privacy identifier in multimedia files in order to ensure checking on the part of the sending user and an expectation identifier in order to check relationships with other users within a social network.

Claims

1. Computer-implemented method for managing privacy and security in a social network, by checking shared data and relationships with other users;

where in the control of the shared data, said data consist of at least one multimedia file and comprising;

assigning to a particular multimedia file a privacy identifier;

assigning to at least a contact of the social network user a privacy identifier;

sharing the file with the identifier in the social network;

characterized in that

only if the privacy identifier of the contact matches the multimedia file the multimedia file is shown to the contact; and

where every time the user which has shared the file changes the privacy identifier of the shared multimedia file, the matching of said new priority identifier with at least one of the user'"'"'s contacts is analyzed, being showed in the case of matching.

2. Method according to claim 1 where in the case of not matching the file and user privacy identifiers, a file without priority identifier is showed.

3. Method according to claim 1 where the privacy identifier comprises a temporary restriction.

4. Method according to claim 1 where the privacy identifier comprises a position restriction.

5. Method according to claim 1 where the privacy identifier comprises a range of IP addresses and/or a plurality of Web browsing data.

6. Method according to claim 1 where the privacy identifiers are shared between contacts.

7. Method according to claim 1 where each contact can ask other user a change in the privacy identifier.

9. Computer-implemented method for managing privacy and security in a social network by checking shared data and relationships between users characterized in that comprises the steps of the method of claim 1 and the additional steps of

establishing an expectation identifier of relationship with at least one user of the social network;

sending a contact request from a first user of the social network to a second user of the social network, where said request includes a first expectation identifier from said first user;

receiving a response from said second user to said first user including a second expectation identifier from second user.

10. Portable electronic device comprising

a data display screen;

at least a camera;

geolocation means;

one or more processors;

a memory; and

characterized in that one or more programs in which the program(s) is(are) stored on memory and configured to run through, at least, the processors, the programs including instructions to execute the method of claim 1 and the additional steps of

establishing an expectation identifier of relationship with at least one user of the social network;

sending a contact request from a first user of the social network to a second user of the social network, where said request includes a first expectation identifier from said first user;

receiving a response from said second user to said first user including a second expectation identifier from second user.

11. Software product with instructions set up for execution by one or more processors that, when they are executed by a portable electronic device as that of claim 10 make that said device to carry out the procedure according to the method of claim 1 and the additional steps of

establishing an expectation identifier of relationship with at least one user of the social network;

sending a contact request from a first user of the social network to a second user of the social network, where said request includes a first expectation identifier from said first user;

receiving a response from said second user to said first user including a second expectation identifier from second user.

12. Communications system comprising

a server that may work to maintain a network structure that defines relations between individuals in a social network, in which the graph structure comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein each node corresponds to an individual in a social network, and wherein a degree of separation between any two nodes is a minimum number of jumps required to move around the graph from one node to another and is characterized in that it comprises means for executing the method of claim 1 and the additional steps of

establishing an expectation identifier of relationship with at least one user of the social network;

sending a contact request from a first user of the social network to a second user of the social network, where said request includes a first expectation identifier from said first user;

receiving a response from said second user to said first user including a second expectation identifier from second user.

8. Computer-implemented method for managing privacy and security in a social network, by checking shared data and relationships between users;

where in the control of the relationships between users comprises the steps of

establishing an expectation identifier of relationship with at least one user of the social network;

sending a contact request from a first user of the social network to a second user of the social network, where said request includes a first expectation identifier from said first user;

receiving a response from said second user to said first user including a second expectation identifier from second user.