Method and apparatus for intuitive management of privacy settings

A technology for users and contacts, applied in computer security devices, data processing applications, electronic digital data processing, etc., can solve the problems of inability to distinguish information, difficulty, and cumbersomeness of subscribers

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-05-16
NOKIA TECHNOLOGLES OY
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Although default assignments are usually provided, it is tedious and difficult for the user to change all the defaults and then manage the changed settings
Furthermore, it is not possible for the user to differentiate information between subscribers falling into one subscriber group

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[0019] A method, apparatus, and software for intuitive management of privacy settings are disclosed. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the invention. It is apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details or with an equivalent arrangement. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring embodiments of the invention.

[0020] Although several embodiments of the invention are discussed with reference to information collected at mobile terminals with a broad configuration of data collection mechanisms for users of a single social network, embodiments of the invention are not limited to this environment. It is expressly contemplated that in some embodiments the user, as a subscriber to one or mo...

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An approach is provided for intuitive management of privacy settings, which includes receiving data that indicates a contact radius and an information radius. The contact radius is related to how socially close a contact is to a user who is registered with a network service. The information radius is related to how private the information about the user is. In response to a request from the contact for information about the user, information about the user is provided, which has an information radius value in a range that is based on a value of the contact radius associated with the contact.

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Background technique [0001] There are various social networking sites available on the Internet. These sites allow subscribers to define some level of privacy settings to control what information subscribers share with other subscribers. However, the available settings define groups into which subscribers are divided fairly roughly, e.g. one group for subscribers who mutually identify as friends, another group for friends of friends at one or more levels of separation, in Another group of non-friend subscribers on one or more regional networks, and a final group of non-friend subscribers across social networks. Subscriber's personal information is also categorized. Privacy settings allow individual subscribers (users) to assign access to categories of information to groups of other subscribers. Although default assignments are usually provided, it is tedious and difficult for the user to change all the defaults and then manage the changed settings. Furthermore, it is impos...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F21/24G06F21/00H04L29/08H04L29/06H04L9/40H04L65/40
CPCG06F21/6245G06Q10/10G06Q50/01
Inventor M·维斯特里宁M·内里马尔卡T·哈留T·库尔马拉V·兰塔拉
Owner NOKIA TECHNOLOGLES OY
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