Secure data interchange

• US 7,630,986 B1
• Filed: 10/27/2000
• Issued: 12/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stripe, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Pinpoint Incorporated (Altitude Capital Partners)
• Inventors: Parkes, David C., Herz, Frederick S. M., Kannan, Sampath, Labys, Walter Paul, Eisner, Jason M.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRUONG, CAM Y T
• Application Number:
  US09/699,098
• Time in Patent Office: 3,329 Days
• Field of Search: 713/175, 713/201, 713/150, 713/155, 713/170, 713/176, 713/180, 707/6, 707/104.1, 707/10, 707/229, 707/2, 709/217, 709/223, 705/1, 705/26, 705/37
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

A system for exchanging data includes a communication system, a first and a second party connected to the communication system, wherein each party has personal data, and each party has a disclosure policy to control dissemination of its data, and a secure intermediate party connected to the communication system, wherein the secure intermediate party exchanges data between the first and second parties in accordance with their respective disclosure policies.

Claims

1. A method of allowing access to data over a distributed data processing system, the method comprising:

providing an automated infrastructure for the exchange of information between multiple self-interested parties;

providing a trusted server with at least one data warehouse for the storage of said information, wherein the trusted server includes a processor;

associating a price rule with particular data records of said information which establishes a cost of accessing said particular data records, and which controls the access to that data;

wherein said price rule enables a data owner associated with said data to specify a different price for different types and amounts of information access;

within said trusted server, providing a data processing platform which is accessible to multiple third-party data processing software programs which operate as software agents;

wherein a plurality of seller-side software agents have defined relationships to said price rules and associated data records, and maintain absolute access control to said data records;

wherein a plurality of buyer-side software agents have regulated query access to said data processing platform and may request pricing information from said seller-side software agents;

wherein said plurality of seller-side software agents and said plurality of buyer-side software agents operate as persistent data processing systems which interact with one another repeatedly over time and which thus define a virtual marketplace.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said trusted server is accessed via a network.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said network is a wireless network.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein said network is a cellular network.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein said network is the Internet.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said software agents are associated with at least one individual.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said software agents are associated with at least one company.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said cost of accessing said particular data records is the price that said buyer-side software agents must pay before accessing said particular data records.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said information access is encrypted through the use of a security certificate.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said security certificate is managed by a public key infrastructure.