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Method, device, and system for collecting and reporting minimally necessary real-time personal context

  • US 9,743,277 B2
  • Filed: 01/17/2017
  • Issued: 08/22/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for collecting and reporting real-time personal context of a user, the method comprising:

  • collecting and storing, by a wireless computing device during a first period of time, one or more first personal context information elements associated with the user and having a lower privacy impact but not reporting the one or more first personal context information elements associated with the user via wireless transmission to an infrastructure network;

    during the first period of time, making a first determination, by the wireless computing device via the one or more first personal context information elements or via wireless reception, that there is an increased probability of an incident occurring near the user and responsively, for a second period of time after the first determination and after the first period of time;

    continuing to collect, by the wireless computing device, the one or more first personal context information elements and reporting the one or more first personal context information elements collected during the first and second periods of time via wireless transmission to the infrastructure network; and

    beginning collecting and storing, by the wireless computing device, one or more second personal context information elements not collected during the first period of time and having a higher privacy impact but not reporting the one or more second personal context information elements via wireless transmission to the infrastructure network.

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