Personal Information Protection Method, Personal Information Protection System, Processing Device, Portable Transmitter/Receiver and Program

• US 20100063929A1
• Filed: 11/06/2009
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yutaka Tsukamoto
• Original Assignee: Mieko Ishii
• Inventors: Tsukamoto, Yutaka, Torigai, Masamichi, Fujii, Mikio
• Application Number:
  US12/613,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20100063929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/44
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3821 Electronic credentials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/383 Anonymous user system
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/385 using an alias or single-use codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification

Abstract

A prescribed virtual person was created for allowing a real person (user) in the actual world to pretend to be the virtual person (virtual person) and act as the virtual person when acting on a network and registered in a database 12a of a financial institution 7 for enabling the user to make shopping or the like as the virtual person with an electronic certificate issued by the financial institution 7 for the virtual person when pretending to be the virtual person and acting on the network, and the address of the virtual person necessary as the destination of a purchased article was set to a nearby convenience store. When acting on the network as the virtual person, cookies are rendered easily acceptable as compared with the case of the real person.

Claims

1. A processor for protecting private information on a network, including:

a payment approval unit performing approval processing for payment when a purchase request by credit payment is received through a credit number, different from that for said real person, issued for a prescribed virtual person created for generating specification data for a virtual person for specifying the virtual person different from specification data for a real person for specifying the real person in the actual world and allowing the real person in the actual world to present specification data for said virtual person instead of specification data for said real person in response to a request of private information of a user and act as the virtual person when the real person acts on the network; and

a payment request unit performing processing for issuing a request for credit payment approved by said payment approval unit to a credit card issuing company, wherein

said payment approval unit approves payment after confirming an electronic certificate issued for said virtual person.

2. A processor for protecting private information on a network, including:

a charge request acceptance unit charging funds in a bank account different from that for said real person, opened for a prescribed virtual person created for generating specification data for a virtual person for specifying the virtual person different from specification data for a real person for specifying the real person in the actual world and allowing the real person in the actual world to present specification data for said virtual person instead of specification data for said real person in response to a request of private information of a user and act as the virtual person when the real person acts on the network for settling accounts; and

a charge unit deducing the bank account corresponding to corresponding said virtual person and remitting a fund corresponding to the sum of the charge request from the funds in said bank account when said charge request acceptance unit accepts the charge request.

3. A processor for protecting private information on a network,

said processor being set on an address of the destination of an article purchased when acting on the network as a virtual person without revealing information by which a real person is specified when the real person in the actual world acts on the network, said address being different from the address of said real person and existing in the actual world, and including:

a storage unit storing information capable of specifying said virtual person employing the address where this processor is set as his/her address in a database;

a keep information storage unit storing information capable of specifying that an article purchased when acting as the virtual person stored in said storage unit and delivered to the address where said processor is set has been kept; and

a delivery approval unit confirming, when receiving a delivery request for said kept article, that a virtual person issuing this delivery request is the virtual person stored in said database and performing processing for issuing approval for delivery of the corresponding article on condition that it is the virtual person whose article is kept.

4. A computer readable medium contains program, for protecting private information on a network, which, when executed by a computer, implements:

a creation request determination unit determining whether or not a request operation creating a prescribed virtual person for generating specification data for a virtual person for specifying the virtual person different from specification data for a real person for specifying the real person in the actual world and allowing the real person in the actual world to present specification data for said virtual person instead of specification data for said real person in response to a request of private information of a user and act as the virtual person when the real person acts on the network has been made;

a birth request transmission unit transmitting a birth request for said virtual person to a prescribed institution when said creation request determination unit determines that the creation request has been made;

a prescribed information transmission unit transmitting information capable of specifying said real person making the birth request for said virtual person and necessary for bearing said virtual person to said prescribed institution; and

a transmission control unit distinguishing a first identification data transmitted from a site for identifying the user when accessing said site as the real person from a second identification data transmitted from the site for identifying the user when accessing the site as the virtual person, and storing said their identification data, and blocking the first identification data from being transmitted to the site even if the first identification data was transmitted from the site before when accessing said site as the virtual person and transmitting the second identification data to said site when the second identification data was transmitted from said site before.

5. A processor for protecting private information on a network, wherein

said processor is a portable processor enabled to transfer and receive information to and from a terminal of a user and carried by the user, and used when a real person as said user acts on the network as said virtual person without revealing information by which said real person is specified, and

constituted to be capable of storing, when identification data transmitted from a site for identifying the user is transmitted to said terminal, said identification data on behalf of said terminal, and even if identification data was transmitted from this site to said terminal of the user before for identifying the user when accessing the site as the real person, outputting said stored identification data instead of this identification data and transmitting said stored identification data to the site.

6. The processor according to claim 5, outputting said stored identification data when the user accesses the site through said terminal to be capable of transmitting said stored identification data to said site at need.

7. The processor according to claim 6, further including:

an input/output part for enabling the terminal of said user to input/output information; and

an identification data storage unit storing said identification data when said identification data is input from said input/output part.

8. The processor according to claim 5, externally outputting the stored identification data when an output instruction for the stored identification data is input.

9. The processor according to any of claims 5, storing information related to said virtual person, and

externally outputting the stored information related to said virtual person when an output instruction for information related to said virtual person is input.

10. The processor according to any of claims 6, storing information related to said virtual person, and

externally outputting the stored information related to said virtual person when an output instruction for information related to said virtual person is input.

11. The processor according to any of claims 7, storing information related to said virtual person, and

externally outputting the stored information related to said virtual person when an output instruction for information related to said virtual person is input.

12. The processor according to any of claims 8, storing information related to said virtual person, and

externally outputting the stored information related to said virtual person when an output instruction for information related to said virtual person is input.

13. A portable transmitter-receiver carried by a user for performing transmission/receiving with a nearby base station by radio and capable of entering a network through said base station, comprising:

a processing function for a virtual person for generating specification data for a virtual person for specifying the virtual person different from specification data for a real person for specifying the real person in the actual world and allowing the real person in the actual world to present specification data for said virtual person instead of specification data for said real person in response to a request of private information of a user and act as the virtual person when the real person acts on the network, and

a different route enter unit for the virtual person for performing processing of directly making radio communication to a terminal connected to the network when the user enters the network as the virtual person with said processing function for the virtual person and entering the network not through an enter route from said base station but from said terminal.