Mobile device sensor data

• US 9,973,526 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2017
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Bailey, Jr., Samuel A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Davis, Zachary A.
• Application Number:
  US15/629,492
• Publication Number:
  US 20170295493A1
• Time in Patent Office: 328 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/577 Assessing vulnerabilities and evaluating computer system security
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/034 Test or assess a computer or a system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1408 by monitoring network traffic monitoring network traffic per se H04L43/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys

Abstract

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for reporting sensor data over a communication network are provided. A data reporting instruction that identifies at least one of a sensor or a data reporting technique is received from a trust mediator over a communication network. The data reporting instruction is based at least in part on an identified risk. Sensor data is obtained from the sensor, and the sensor data is transmitted to the trust mediator over the communication network based on the data reporting technique.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting, to a mediator, first sensor data from a first sensor on a mobile device;

receiving, from the mediator, data associated with a second sensor on the mobile device, wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes risk data associated with the first sensor, wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes a data reporting instruction that is based at least in part of the risk data associated with the first sensor, and wherein the second sensor is not the first sensor;

obtaining second sensor data from the second sensor; and

transmitting the second sensor data to the mediator.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the risk data is based on the first sensor data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data associated with the second sensor identifies the second sensor on the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes a data reporting technique.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the second sensor data to the mediator is based on a data reporting technique.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes a data reporting technique that is an event-based reporting technique by which the second sensor data is transmitted to the mediator in response to detecting an event.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the event includes a change in a location of the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes a data reporting technique that is a sampling-rate-based reporting technique by which the second sensor data is transmitted to the mediator at a predetermined sampling rate.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the second sensor is a biometric sensor.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second sensor data is used to authenticate an identity of a user of the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the second sensor data includes geographic position data that the second sensor collects from a global positioning system network and that is associated with a position of the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the second sensor is one of a cluster of sensors identified by the data reporting instruction.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes a data reporting technique that is one of a plurality of data reporting techniques identified by the data reporting instruction.

14. A system comprising:

a processor on a mobile device, and

a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the processor, the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

transmitting, to a mediator, first sensor data from a first sensor on the mobile device;

receiving, from the mediator, data associated with a second sensor on the mobile device wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes risk data associated with the first sensor, wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes a data reporting instruction that is based at least in part of the risk data associated with the first sensor, and wherein the second sensor is not the first sensor;

obtaining second sensor data from the second sensor; and

transmitting the second sensor data to the mediator.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the risk data is based on the first sensor data.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the data associated with the second sensor identifies the second sensor on the mobile device.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes a data reporting technique.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions including instructions, which, when executed by a mobile device, cause the mobile device to perform operations comprising:

transmitting, to a mediator, first sensor data from a first sensor on the mobile device;

receiving, from the mediator, data associated with a second sensor on the mobile device wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes risk data associated with the first sensor wherein the data associated with the second sensor includes a data reporting instruction that is based at least in part of the risk data associated with the first sensor, and wherein the second sensor is not the first sensor;

obtaining second sensor data from the second sensor; and

transmitting the second sensor data to the mediator.