Personal portal and secure information exchange
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented secure information exchange system comprising:
- a digital repository, wherein said digital repository is a personal digital repository having a digital lockbox, wherein said digital repository comprises;
means for permitting multiple and different authorized suppliers to only push desired information to the digital repository, in which the multiple and different authorized suppliers are humans or machines, and wherein the desired information is specified by the owner of the digital repository as the information to be received by and stored on the digital repository;
means for storing the desired information on the digital repository once the desired information has been pushed and accepted as the desired information by the digital repository;
means for allowing multiple and different permitted accessors, in which the permitted accessors are humans or machines including the owner of the digital repository, access to the desired information stored on the digital repository; and
a plurality of compartments and a means for specifying which of the plurality of compartments is accessible by which of the multiple and different permitted accessors; and
means for encrypting the desired information.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a secure information exchange mechanism that can be seen as a portal or gateway to his or her digital information. The invention is sometimes referred to as an “n-by-m lockbox” because it allows n suppliers to submit information accessible by m accessors. Each lockbox owner specifies and controls who or what can provide what information to the lockbox, who or what can access what information stored therein, and when and how the stored information is accessed. The information may be encrypted and only authorized accessors would be able to decipher it. The lockbox may comprise multiple compartments that segregate information based on pertinent criteria and may incorporate multiple encryption/decryption mechanisms that respectively correspond to each of the multiple compartments. The lockbox owner may associate different encryption keys with different compartments and give these keys to different depositors or instruct depositors to utilize different keys for specific categories of content. The lockbox provides a means for improved organization of the storage of potentially vast amounts of information. Further, the lockbox solves many problems associated with spamming and also advantageously prevents problems associated with various security attacks, such as flooding and denial of service.
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55 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented secure information exchange system comprising:
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a digital repository, wherein said digital repository is a personal digital repository having a digital lockbox, wherein said digital repository comprises; means for permitting multiple and different authorized suppliers to only push desired information to the digital repository, in which the multiple and different authorized suppliers are humans or machines, and wherein the desired information is specified by the owner of the digital repository as the information to be received by and stored on the digital repository; means for storing the desired information on the digital repository once the desired information has been pushed and accepted as the desired information by the digital repository; means for allowing multiple and different permitted accessors, in which the permitted accessors are humans or machines including the owner of the digital repository, access to the desired information stored on the digital repository; and a plurality of compartments and a means for specifying which of the plurality of compartments is accessible by which of the multiple and different permitted accessors; and means for encrypting the desired information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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