Methods and systems for monitoring and/or managing device data

• US 9,749,206 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2012
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Okeke, Izunna
• Assistant Examiner(s): SONG, HEE K
• Application Number:
  US13/732,305
• Publication Number:
  US 20140122280A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,702 Days
• Field of Search: 726 26- 28, 709224, 709225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0421 Anonymous communication, i.e. the party's identifiers are hidden from the other party or parties, e.g. using an anonymizer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]

Abstract

Computationally implemented methods and systems include monitoring one or more properties of a device configured to carry out one or more services, determining one or more services that require access to a particular portion of the device, said determining at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device, and facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services that require access to the particular portion of the device, and are configured to be carried out by the device, wherein the one or more services are presented along with a request for access to the particular portion of the device. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services;

determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device;

facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device; and

facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device,

wherein at least one of the monitoring, determining, or facilitating is at least partially implemented using at least one processing device.

2. A system, comprising:

circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services;

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device;

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device; and

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services comprises:

circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more exercise tracking services.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services comprises:

circuitry configured for monitoring at least one of one or more statuses or one or more characteristics of the device configured for carrying out the one or more services.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services comprises:

circuitry configured for monitoring a usage of at least one of one or more web sites or one or more applications installed on the device by a user of the device configured for carrying out the one or more services.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services comprises:

circuitry configured for monitoring a condition of at least a portion of the device configured for carrying out the one or more services.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device; and

circuitry configured for monitoring the one or more properties of the device after receiving the permission.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device as a part of a service agreement for use of the device.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device configured for carrying out one or more services in return for facilitating one or more offers to provide one or more services to the device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device configured to carry out one or more services in return for facilitating one or more offers to provide one or more services to the device comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device configured for carrying out one or more services in return for facilitating one or more context-dependent offers to provide one or more services at particular times at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device configured to carry out one or more services in return for facilitating one or more context-dependent offers to provide one or more services at particular times at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving permission to monitor one or more properties of the device configured for carrying out one or more services in return for facilitating one or more offers to provide one or more services at particular times, said one or more offers for one or more services calculated to likely be accepted at a time of the one or more offers, based on the monitored one or more properties.

12. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services comprises:

circuitry configured for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services via a communication network used by the device.

13. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to one or more of particular data stored on the device or a particular sensor on the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device.

14. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on monitoring a particular sensor collecting particular data.

15. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for selecting one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device.

16. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on a monitoring of at least a portion of the particular portion of the device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on a monitoring of at least a portion of the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular sensor of the device at least partly based on a condition detected by the particular sensor of the device.

18. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device of the one or more services at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to particular data on the device at least partly based on a monitoring of one or more traits of the particular data.

19. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on an environment of the device detected by a monitored sensor of the device.

20. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring ongoing access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device.

21. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the one or more services presented in a format presenting a request for access to the particular portion of the device as payment for facilitating the one or more services.

22. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of a first service of the determined one or more services and a first request for access to the particular portion of the device; and

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of a second service of the determined one or more services and a second request for access to the particular portion of the device.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of a second service of the determined one or more services and a second request for access to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service including at least one or more additional features absent from the first service.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of a second service of the determined one or more services and a second request for access to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service estimated to be more desirable to a user of the device than the first service.

25. The system of claim 22, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of a second service of the determined one or more services and a second request for access to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service estimated to be more desirable to a user of the device than the first service and requesting more access to the particular portion of the device than the first request for access.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service estimated to be more desirable to a user of the device than the first service and requesting more access to the particular portion of the device than the first request for access comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service estimated to be more desirable to the user of the device than the first service and requesting access to more of the particular portion of the device than a first portion associated with the first request for access.

27. The system of claim 25, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service estimated to be more desirable to a user of the device than the first service and requesting more access to the particular portion of the device than the first request for access comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service estimated to be more desirable to the user of the device than the first service and requesting access to the particular portion of the device for a longer duration than the first service.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service estimated to be more desirable to the user of the device than the first service and requesting access to the particular portion of the device for a longer duration than the first service comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the second service of the determined one or more services and the second request for access to the particular portion of the device, the second service estimated to be more desirable to the user of the device than the first service and requesting ongoing access to the particular portion of the device, the first request for access requesting temporary access to the particular portion of the device.

29. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, and are configured to be carried out by the device, the request for access to the particular portion of the device is presented prior to presenting the one or more services.

30. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device; and

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the request for access to the particular portion of the device for which the determined one or more services requires access subsequent to acceptance of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device by a user of the device.

31. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device including at least, a request for at least some additional access to the particular portion of the device as an alternative to at least a portion of a monetary payment for the determined one or more services.

32. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device and costing money for execution with access to the particular portion of the device available as an option for receiving the determined one or more services for free.

33. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a grant of at least a portion of a request for access to the particular portion of the device for a limited duration and for revocation of access to the particular portion of the device following the limited duration.

34. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the option for payment for the one or more services is decreased when device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a grant of a request for access to at least a portion of the particular portion of the device.

35. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the option for payment for the one or more services is decreased when device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device concurrent with facilitating presentation of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device and previous to acceptance of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device by a user of the device.

36. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device, the monitored one or more properties of the device including at least some data related to a usage of social networking sites accessed through the device by a user of the device.

38. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for one or more exercise tracking services requiring access to a store of location data associated with movements of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the store of location data associated with movements of the device as a second portion for payment for the one or more exercise tracking services requiring access to the store of location data associated with movements of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the one or more exercise tracking services requiring access to the store of location data associated with movements of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the store of location data associated with movements of the device.

39. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment to a user of the device for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion to a user of the device as a first portion and a grant by the user of the device of access to at least a portion of the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device including at least a payment to the user of the device that increases in association with increasing access to the particular portion of the device by the one or more services and a reverse payment from the user of the device that decreases in association with decreasing access granted to the particular portion of the device.

40. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least an online currency payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device.

41. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increase in a number of third parties granted access to the particular portion of the device.

42. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation, to a third party desiring data regarding a user of the device, of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device including at least one of a reverse payment by the third party decreasing or a payment by the third party increasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device.

43. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device comprises:

circuitry configured for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment to a user of the device for accepting installation of one or more services on the device monitoring one or more activities associated with the device, the one or more activities associated with the device including at least one of one or more advertisements viewed, one or more videos viewed, one or more links to websites clicked, one or more signups to offers, one or more likes, one or more shares, or one or more downloads performed via the device.

37. A computer program product, comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium including at least;

one or more instructions for monitoring one or more properties of a device configured for carrying out one or more services;

one or more instructions for determining one or more services requiring access to a particular portion of the device at least partly based on the monitored one or more properties of the device;

one or more instructions for facilitating presentation, to the device, of the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device; and

one or more instructions for facilitating presentation of a multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the multi-portion option including at least a monetary payment portion as a first portion and a grant of at least a portion of access to the particular portion of the device as a second portion for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device, the monetary payment portion of the multi-portion option for payment for the determined one or more services requiring access to the particular portion of the device decreasing in association with an increased amount of access granted to the particular portion of the device.