Distributed, decentralized data aggregation

• US 9,692,815 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2016
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MX Technologies Inc.
• Original Assignee: MX Technologies Inc.
• Inventors: Caldwell, John Ryan
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Application Number:
  US15/167,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20170142191A1
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/82 Miscellaneous aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distributed and/or decentralized data aggregation. A method includes determining a user'"'"'s electronic credentials for a plurality of third party service providers. A method includes accessing each of a plurality of third party service providers, from a hardware device associated with a user, using the user'"'"'s electronic credentials, to download data associated with the user from the third party service providers. A method includes aggregating downloaded data from third party service providers and providing one or more communications to a user on a hardware device based on the aggregated downloaded data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining a user'"'"'s electronic credentials for a plurality of third party service providers;

accessing each of the third party service providers, from a hardware device associated with the user, using the user'"'"'s determined electronic credentials, to download data associated with the user from the third party service providers;

determining whether the hardware device associated with the user is available to download the data associated with the user;

accessing one or more of the third party service providers, from a different device, using the user'"'"'s electronic credentials, to download the data associated with the user to the different device, in response to determining that the hardware device associated with the user is unavailable to download the data; and

aggregating the downloaded data from the third party service providers and providing one or more communications to the user on the hardware device based on the aggregated downloaded data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the downloaded data from the hardware device to a different device separate from the third party service providers.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing one or more other locations on one or more of the third party service providers, with one or more artificially introduced delays between accessing the one or more other locations and downloading the data, thereby emulating a use pattern of the user for the one or more of the third party service providers.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the emulated use pattern is determined based on one or more of an average pattern identified in behavior of multiple other users accessing the one or more of the third party service providers using a web browser and a pattern identified in behavior of the user accessing the one or more of the third party service providers using a web browser.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting that access to the data associated with the user from one or more of the third party service providers is unavailable; and

providing an interface to the user allowing the user to graphically identify one or more of an input location for the user'"'"'s electronic credentials and a location of the data associated with the user on a website of the unavailable one or more of the third party service providers.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

processing one or more pages of the website; and

displaying to the user in the interface an estimate of one or more of the input location for the user'"'"'s electronic credentials and the location of the data associated with the user such that the user confirms whether or not the estimate is correct using the interface.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

attempting to access the unavailable one or more of the third party service providers for a plurality of different users, based on the identification from the user, using electronic credentials of the different users; and

providing the identification from the user to additional users to access data associated with the additional users, in response to determining that data associated with the different users is accessible using the identification from the user.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating and managing one or more different, secure, electronic credentials for the user for each of the third party service providers; and

securely storing the generated one or more different, secure, electronic credentials for the user on the hardware device associated with the user.

9. A system comprising:

a plurality of aggregation modules located on hardware devices for different users, the plurality of aggregation modules receiving electronic credentials from the different users for a plurality of different third party service providers, accessing the plurality of third party service providers using the received electronic credentials, to download data associated with the different users from the third party service providers, and accessing one or more other locations on one or more of the third party service providers, with one or more artificially introduced delays between accessing the one or more other locations and downloading the data, thereby emulating a use pattern of the different users for the one or more of the third party service providers; and

a backend server that receives the downloaded data associated with the different users from the different third party service providers, that separately aggregates the data for each of the different users from the plurality of different third party service providers, and that provides one or more communications based on the separately aggregated data individually to the different users through one or more communication channels.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising the hardware devices for the different users, the hardware devices comprising processors executing computer executable program code of the aggregation modules, comprising non-transitory computer readable storage mediums storing the computer executable program code, and comprising network interfaces in communication with the third party service providers to download the data associated with the different users.

11. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer usable program code executable by a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

determining a user'"'"'s electronic credentials for a third party service provider on a hardware device of the user;

accessing a server of the third party service provider, from the hardware device of the user, using the user'"'"'s electronic credentials;

detecting a change in access to one or more of the server of the third party service provider and data associated with the user;

providing an interface to the user allowing the user to graphically identify one or more of an input location for the user'"'"'s electronic credentials and a location of the data associated with the user;

downloading the data associated with the user from the server of the third party service provider to the hardware device of the user; and

one or more of aggregating the downloaded data from the hardware device of the user for a remote device unaffiliated with the third party service provider and providing the downloaded data to the remote device.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, the operations further comprising:

determining an ordered list of multiple locations on the server for accessing the server; and

determining one or more delays to wait between accessing the locations.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the multiple locations and the one or more delays are selected based on an average pattern identified in behavior of multiple other users accessing the third party service provider using a web browser.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the multiple locations and the one or more delays are selected based on a pattern identified in behavior of the user accessing the third party service provider using a web browser.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, to the operations further comprising:

processing one or more pages of the server; and

displaying, to the user in the interface, an estimate of one or more of the input location for the user'"'"'s electronic credentials and the location of the data associated with the user such that the user confirms whether or not the estimate is correct using the interface.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, the operations further comprising:

attempting to access the server of the third party service provider for a plurality of different users, based on the identification from the user, using electronic credentials of the different users; and

determining whether data associated with the different users is accessible using the identification from the user.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, the operations further comprising providing the identification from the user to other instances of the computer program product for accessing the server of the third party in response to an amount of the different users for which data is accessible using the identification from the user satisfying a threshold.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, the operations further comprising providing receiving an ordered list of multiple different sets of instructions for accessing the server of the third party service provider using the user'"'"'s electronic credentials and for downloading the data associated with the user.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein one or more of the different sets of instructions comprises a location for entering the user'"'"'s electronic credentials, an instruction for submitting the user'"'"'s electronic credentials, and one or more locations of the data associated with the user.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the operations are configured to access the server using an application interface and authentication procedure of the third party service provider.

21. The computer program product of claim 11, the operations further comprising:

determining whether one or more of the hardware device of the user and another device of the user is available to download the data associated with the user from the server of the third party service provider; and

accessing the server of the third party service provider, from a different device, using the user'"'"'s electronic credentials, to download the data associated with the user from the server of the third party service provider to the different device, in response to determining that the hardware device of the user is unavailable.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, the operations further comprising providing the user one or more communications on the hardware device of the user based on the data associated with the user downloaded to the different device.

23. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the different device comprises a personal hardware device of another user and the operations further comprise:

sending an encrypted copy of the user'"'"'s electronic credentials to the different device; and

encrypting the downloaded data on the different device such that the other user may not access the downloaded data.

24. The computer program product of claim 11, the operations further comprising setting a frequency with which the operations access the server of the third party service provider.

25. The computer program product of claim 24, the operations further comprising determining the frequency based on input from the remote device unaffiliated with the third party service provider, such that the remote device determines frequencies for a plurality of different users and different hardware devices accessing the server of the third party service provider.

26. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein the frequency is determined based on input from the user received on the hardware device of the user.

27. The computer program product of claim 11, the operations further comprising

managing electronic credentials of the user for a plurality of third party service providers including the third party service provider;

and

accessing and downloading data associated with the user from each of the plurality of third party service providers.

28. The computer program product of claim 27, the operations further comprising:

generating different, secure, credentials for each of the plurality of third party service providers; and

securely storing the generated credentials for the user on the hardware device of the user.

29. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer usable program code executable by a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

determining a user'"'"'s electronic credentials for a third party service provider on a hardware device of the user;

setting a frequency for accessing a server of the third party service provider based on input from a remote device unaffiliated with the third party service provider, such that the remote device determines frequencies for a plurality of different users and different hardware devices accessing the server of the third party service provider;

accessing the server of the third party service provider, from the hardware device of the user, using the user'"'"'s electronic credentials according to the set frequency;

downloading data associated with the user from the server of the third party service provider to the hardware device of the user; and

one or more of aggregating the downloaded data from the hardware device of the user for a remote device unaffiliated with the third party service provider and providing the downloaded data to the remote device.