Data security system

• US 10,673,904 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2015
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chan, Yuk L., Lagares-Greenblatt, Heidi, Naphade, Deppti M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Khang
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mejia, Feliciano S
• Application Number:
  US14/932,427
• Publication Number:
  US 20170091481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,672 Days
• Field of Search: 726 1, 726 4, 726 26- 27, 705325, 713154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/903 Querying for retrieval from the web G06F16/953
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/04 for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/205 involving negotiation or determination of the one or more network security mechanisms to be used, e.g. by negotiation between the client and the server or between peers or by selection according to the capabilities of the entities involved negotiation of communication capabilities H04L69/24

Abstract

A computer identifies one or more privacy settings. The computer receives a query for information. The computer determines whether a response to the query satisfies the one or more privacy settings. If the computer determines that the response to the query does not satisfy the one or more privacy settings, the computer alters the response to satisfy the one or more privacy settings.

Claims

1. A method for managing a response to a query for information via a user interface, one or more applications, or a computer device, comprising the steps of:

a computer determining one or more privacy settings for a user, wherein the one or more privacy settings are determined by analyzing a usage history, of the user, of the one or more applications;

the computer determining that the user is utilizing the one or more applications in a manner that contradicts the one or more privacy settings as determined based on the usage history of the user;

the computer determining that an amount of utilization, of the user, of the one or more applications a plurality of times, in the manner that contradicts the one or more privacy settings, exceeds a threshold amount of contradictory use;

based on the amount of utilization, of the user, in the manner that contradicts the one or more privacy settings, exceeding the threshold amount of contradictory use;

the computer altering the one or more privacy settings;

the computer receiving an electronic query for information;

the computer determining whether a response to the query satisfies the one or more privacy settings; and

responsive to determining that the response to the query does not satisfy the one or more privacy settings, the computer altering the response to satisfy the one or more privacy settings.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the response to the query does satisfy the one or more privacy settings, the computer transmitting the response.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the response to the query does not satisfy the one or more privacy settings, the computer transmitting the altered response.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining whether a response to the query satisfies the one or more privacy settings further comprises:

the computer analyzing the query by utilizing one or more of natural language processing techniques, keyword comparisons, and string matching techniques;

the computer determining a response based on the analysis of the query; and

the computer comparing information in the response to the one or more privacy settings.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of the computer identifying one or more privacy settings further comprises:

the computer determining a first privacy setting exists on a first application;

the computer determining a second privacy setting exists on a second application, wherein a frequency of utilization of the second application is higher than the first application; and

the computer adding the second privacy setting into the one or more privacy settings.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a first setting of the one or more privacy settings applies to a first data and a second setting of the one or more privacy settings applies to a second data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the usage history, by the user, of the one or more applications comprises:

the computer tracking past behavior of the user, wherein past behavior comprises a manner of use of the one or more applications, on the computer, by the user.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the computer updating the one or more privacy settings for the user in response to a manner in which the computer is utilized by the user.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining one or more privacy settings utilized by each of the one or more applications;

determining one or more general privacy settings utilized by a computing device hosting the one or more applications; and

determining an overall set of privacy settings for the user of the computing device, wherein the overall set of privacy settings comprises a set of privacy settings common between the one or more privacy settings utilized by each of the one or more applications and the one or more general privacy settings utilized by the computing device hosting the one or more applications.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the overall set of privacy settings for the user comprises the one or more privacy settings utilized by each of the one or more applications combined with the one or more general privacy settings utilized by the computing device hosting the one or more applications.