Event driven permissive sharing of information

• US 8,925,104 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Meredith, Sheldon Kent, Kosseifi, Mario, Pastore, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Cervetti, David Garcia
• Assistant Examiner(s): ABEDIN, SHANTO
• Application Number:
  US13/447,069
• Publication Number:
  US 20130276134A1
• Time in Patent Office: 991 Days
• Field of Search: 726/21, 726 26- 30, 726 2- 4, 707/705, 707/736, 707/783, 707/784, 707/787, 707/788, 455/456.1, 455/456.2
• US Class Current: 726/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• 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 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

The disclosed subject matter provides for event driven permissive sharing of information. In an aspect, user equipment can include information sharing profiles that can facilitate sharing information with other devices or users, such as sharing location information. The information sharing profiles can include trigger values, such that when a target value transitions the trigger value, a permission value is updated to restrict access to sharable information. As such, event driven permissive sharing of information allows for designation of temporary friend information sharing with user-defined triggers.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

receiving input corresponding to an information sharing profile associated with contact information related to a user identity;

designating a first value, related to a temporal-expiration condition, for a first property of the information sharing profile based on user-designated information;

designating a second value, related to identification of sharable data, for a second property of the information sharing profile based on the input;

designating a third value, related to a designated granularity of the sharable data, for a third property of the information sharing profile based on the input;

identifying the sharable data based on the second property;

determining a subset of the sharable data based on the third property;

updating a permission value in response to the first value transitioning a designated trigger value; and

facilitating access to the subset of sharable data based on satisfaction of a condition related to the permission value.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

designating a fourth value, related to a fourth property of the information sharing profile based on the input and wherein access to the subset of sharable data is further based on satisfaction of another condition related to the fourth property.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first value is an elapsed time value.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first value is a time on a specified date.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the fourth value is a spatial value.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the fourth value is a proximity value.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the fourth value is a geographic value.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the second value is associated with identification of location information to share with the user identity.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the contact information is associated with a user interface that facilitates access to the contact information and facilitates editing the contact information.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the second value is associated with identification of schedule information to share.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the second value is associated with identification of services information to share.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the contact information comprises information related to a plurality of devices related to the user identity, wherein access to the subset of sharable data by the user identity is facilitated via a subset of the plurality of devices based on the information related to the plurality of devices.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the contact information is associated with a user interface that facilitates access to the information related to the plurality of devices, facilitates editing of the information related to the plurality of devices, and facilitates designation of the subset of the plurality of devices.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise restricting access to another subset of the sharable data based on a criterion related to a privacy setting, wherein the restricting overrides access to the other subset of sharable data, and wherein access to the other subset of data is blocked.

15. A method, comprising:

accessing, by a system comprising a processor, a sharing profile associated with contact information related to an entity;

designating, by the system, a permission value based on a first value of the sharing profile related to a user-selectable temporal-expiration condition, a second value of the sharing profile related to identifying sharable data, and a third value of the sharing profile related to designating a granularity of the sharable data;

identifying, by the system, the sharable data based on the second value;

determining, by the system, a subset of the sharable data based on the third value;

facilitating, by the system, access to the subset of sharable data for the entity in response to another condition related to the permission value being determined to be satisfied; and

updating, by the system, the permission value in response to a trigger value transitioning the first value.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising restricting access to the subset of sharable data in response to the updated.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the facilitating the access to the subset of sharable data comprises facilitating access to location information.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the designating the permission value is further based on a fourth value of the sharing profile related to a spatial condition.

19. A mobile device, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

receiving input corresponding to an information sharing profile associated with contact information related to a user identity associated with a device other than the mobile device;

assigning, to a first property of the information sharing profile, a first value, related to a user-selectable temporal-expiration condition, based on the input, wherein a target time value that transitions the first value is associated with a permission value related to restricting access to designated sharable information;

assigning, to a second property of the information sharing profile, a second value, related to designation of sharable information, based on the input, wherein the second property facilitates the designation of the sharable information;

assigning, to a third property of the information sharing profile, a third value, related to a designated granularity of the sharable information, based on the input, wherein the third property facilitates designation of a subset of the sharable information;

restricting access to the subset of the sharable information for the user identity based on the permission value and the information sharing profile comprising the first property, the second property, and the third property; and

updating the permission value in response to a time value transitioning the first value.

20. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

assigning, to a fourth property of the information sharing profile, a fourth value, related to a spatial condition, based on the input, wherein a target spatial value that transitions the fourth value is associated with the restricting the access to the subset of the sharable information; and

accessing an existing privacy setting of the mobile device to facilitate further limiting of the access to the subset of the sharable information based on the existing privacy setting.