Systems, methods, and computer readable media for security in profile utilizing systems

• US 8,984,647 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2011
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veritone Media
• Original Assignee: Atigeo LLC
• Inventors: Sandoval, Michael, Downs, Oliver Bruce
• Primary Examiner(s): Holder, Bradley
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kabir, Jahangir
• Application Number:
  US13/102,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20110276563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,411 Days
• Field of Search: 726 26- 30
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

Security and distributed storage is described for systems using electronic profile information. Embodiments may be utilized for ID, data, and access analysis. Dynamic distributed redundant encryption may be used that may be based on user, device, location, context information, physical, or environmental characteristics. In one implementation, encrypted electronic profiles are stored on behalf of users by a profiling system, allowing user information within the electronic profiles to be accessed only by decryption of a portion of the electronic profile by the profiling system using distributed decryption codes.

Claims

1. A method for providing a

secure electronic profile access by a profiling system, the method comprising:

generating, by the profiling system, a code that is used to encode the electronic profile, from a first information that is obtained from, or that is related to, a querying entity, and from a second information that is obtained from, or that is related to, a profile-owning entity;

encoding, by the profiling system, the electronic profile data using the code;

electronically receiving, by the profiling system, a query from the querying entity that requests identification of content items that are identified using scores computed from the profile data contained in a portion of the encoded electronic profile owned by the profile-owning entity and stored within the profiling system;

decoding, by the profiling system, the portion of the encoded electronic profile using the code;

scoring, by the profiling system, the content items using profile data extracted from the decoded portion of the encoded electronic profile; and

identifying the content items, by the profiling system, using the scores.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the request comprises a continuous monitoring of a content stream.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the code is based at least in part on an a physical characteristic selected from a group of physical characteristics consisting of:

an electromagnetic signature, ENS, MAC address, connection impedance, connection resistance, transmission and modulation signature, energy or power attributes, and connection throughput of at least one user device associated with the second entity.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the code is based at least in part on a location of at least one user device associated with the second entity, whether physical, associative, or virtual.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the code is distributed across a plurality of physical storage devices.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the encoded electronic profile is distributed across a plurality of physical storage devices.

7. A physical data-storage device encoded with a set of instructions when executed performs steps for providing a secure electronic profile access by a profiling system, the steps comprising of:

generating, by the profiling system, a code that is used to encode the electronic profile, from a first information that is obtained from, or that is related to, a querying entity, and from a second information that is obtained from, or that is related to, a profile-owning entity;

encoding, by the profiling system, the electronic profile data using the code;

electronically receiving, by the profiling system, a query from the querying entity that requests identification of content items that are identified using scores computed from the profile data contained in a portion of the encoded electronic profile owned by the profile-owning entity and stored within the profiling system;

decoding, by the profiling system, the portion of the encoded electronic profile using the code;

scoring, by the profiling system, the content items using profile data extracted from the decoded portion of the encoded electronic profile; and

identifying the content items, by the profiling system, using the scores.

8. The physical data-storage device of claim 7, wherein the code comprises a compound code including data based at least in part on a plurality of aspects of the second entity.

9. The physical data-storage device of claim 7, wherein using the code comprises retrieving the code from a distributed hash table-based storage system.

10. The physical data-storage device of claim 7, wherein scoring the content item comprises retrieving the content item from a distributed hash table-based storage system.

11. The physical data-storage device of claim 7, wherein scoring the content item comprises computing a value based in least in part on the encoded electronic profile.