Method of automated generation of access controlled, personalized data and/or programs

• US 20070029379A1
• Filed: 08/26/2003
• Published: 02/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Swiss Reinsurance Company
• Original Assignee: Swiss Reinsurance Company
• Inventors: Peyer, Marco
• Application Number:
  US10/568,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20070029379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/382
• 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: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

System and method of automated generation of access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs, a user (10, . . . , 14) accessing a central unit (40) via a network (30/31) by means of a communication device (20, . . . ,24) and the access-controlled data and/or programs being transmitted to the communication device (10, . . . , 14), logical records (421, . . . ,423) being generated having data elements (4211, . . . ,4214) divided according to authorization classes and the personalized, access-controlled data and/or programs being generated by means of a filter module (41) of the central unit (40) based on the authorization class of the user (10, . . . , 14) and on the access request data of the user (10, . . . , 14).

Claims

1. A method of automated generation and of making available of access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs, a user accessing a central unit via a network by means of a communication device and the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs being transmitted to at least one communication device, wherein

logical records are generated having data elements divided according to authorization classes and are stored in at least one source database,

the user is identified by the central unit, an authorization class being assigned to the user by means of a user database,

access request data for access to the logical records of the at least one source database are transmitted from the communication device via the network to the central unit,

the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs are generated by means of a filter module of the central unit based on the authorization class of the user and on the access request data, and are made available to the user in an accessible way.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein determined by means of the access request data of the user is to which user and/or user groups the personalized, access-control data and/or programs are transmitted.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data are filtered according to the authorization class of the respective user by means of an additional filter module of the communication device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein clearing data are transmitted from the central unit to a clearing module, which clearing data contain billing data for said access to the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a user profile is created based on the respective user behavior and is stored assigned to the user, the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs being generated and/or optimized at least partially based on the user profile.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs are stored in a permanent data store of the central unit accessible to the user.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein stored in the user profile are user-specific data about network features and/or data about hardware characteristics of the communication device of the user and/or data about user behavior.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein different user profiles for different communication devices (20, . . . ,24) are stored assigned to the user.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access request data are transmitted to the central unit over a first bidirectional communication channel, the user being identified, and the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs are transmitted to the communication device in an encrypted manner and unidirectionally over a second communication channel.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the first bidirectional communication channel comprises at least a mobile radio network and/or the second unidirectional communication channel comprises at least a broadcast transmitter.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein HTML and/or HDML and/or WML and/or VRML and/or ASD are used for generating the personalized data.

12. A system for automated generation and for making available of access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs, which system comprises a central unit, at least one source database and a plurality of communication devices, the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs being transmittable by means of a network from the central unit to the communication devices, wherein

the at least one source database contains logical records having data elements divided according to authorization classes,

the system comprises an identification module with a user database, in which an authorization class is stored assigned to each user,

the central unit comprises a filter module, by means of which the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs are able to be generated based on the authorization class of a user and based on access request data transmitted by means of the user unit, and are able to be made available to the user in an accessible way.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the access request data of the user contain destination data with which it is definable to which user and/or user classes the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs are to be transmitted.

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein the communication device further comprises a filter module to filter the data according to the authorization class of the respective user.

15. The system according to claim 12, wherein the central unit comprises a clearing module for generating clearing data, which clearing data contain billing data for said access to the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs.

16. The system according to claim 12, wherein the central unit contains a user profile stored assigned to the user, the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs being generated and/or optimized at least partially based on the user profile.

17. The system according to claim 12, wherein the central unit comprises a permanent data store, in which the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs are stored in a way accessible to the user.

18. The system according to claim 12, wherein the user profile comprises user-specific data about network features and/or data about hardware characteristics of the communication device of the user and/or data about user behavior.

19. The system according to claim 12, wherein the central unit comprises different user profiles for different communication devices of the user.

20. The system according to claim 12, wherein the system comprises a first bidirectional communication channel for transmitting the access request data to the central unit and a second communication channel, the user being identifiable via the first bidirectional communication channel, and the access-controlled, personalized data and/or programs are transmittable to the communication device in an encrypted manner and unidirectionally over the second communication channel.

21. The system according to claim 20, wherein the first bidirectional communication channel comprises at least a mobile radio network and/or the second unidirectional communication channel comprises at least a broadcast transmitter.

22. The system according to claim 12, wherein the system comprises a data module for generating personalized data in HTML and/or HDML and/or WML and/or VRML and/or ASD format.