39 results about "Consumer privacy" patented technology

A targeted information and incentive distribution system that protects consumer privacy and analyzes individuals', including individual households' or individual groups, purchase histories obtained from several retailers and other providers of goods and/or services to determine targeted information and/or incentives to deliver to individuals. Purchase history and other relevant data for each individual user are accumulated at a computer that is under the control of that user and analyzed to determine which targeted information items and/or incentives to deliver to that individual user. Purchase history data in the exemplary embodiment is only maintained at the user's computer so as to increase the privacy for the user of this extensive purchase history data that was derived from multiple sources. Abridged purchase history data that does not contain information to identify the individual to which it pertains is uploaded for comprehensive analysis to develop future purchase incentive programs.

Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods for enabling the matching of third party data with access providers' subscriber data in a privacy compliant manner, and then connecting an internet user to that third party data for use by marketers, content providers, or other interested parties in a manner that protects consumer privacy at all times. In one embodiment, an access provider such as an ISP sends its subscriber data to a double blind processor that generates an encrypted key for each subscriber. The key is then used to find matching consumer data, for example, consumer segments that represent previously collected or modeled consumer attitudinal, habit, or financial data. The key may be forwarded to a real time marketing bureau, which may use the matched data in subsequent real-time or substantially real-time operations to provide consumer or business data to advertisers, content providers, and other interested parties.

The present invention relates to systems, methods, and devices for consumers using RFID-tagged items for multichannel shopping using smartphones, tablets, and indoor navigation, preservation of consumer's privacy related to RFID-tagged items that they leave a retail store with, and automatically reading and locating retail inventory without directly using store labor. Robots and aerial mobile automated RFID reading devices are disclosed.

A method of providing a product to a consumer in which an identity of the product is concealed is disclosed. The method can be useful when a consumer wishes to prevent others from knowing the identity of a product being purchased or otherwise obtained. In particular embodiments of the method, a request is received from the consumer to purchase a product. A disguising packaging material in which to package the requested product is selected. The requested product is packaged with the disguising packaging material to create a custom packaged product. The custom packaged product is provided to the consumer. The customer is billed for the custom packaged product. In certain embodiments, the custom packaged product includes one or more signalers which are scanned to determine information pertaining to the requested product.

A system, method, and computer program product for maintaining the anonymity of a consumer in a transaction with a retailer. The consumer provides payment method information and ship-to address information to a trusted third party. The consumer purchases products from a retailer by providing the trusted third party anonymous identifiers (e.g., nicknames, unique codes, or one time use codes either supplied by the consumer or by the trusted third party) corresponding to the selected payment methods and ship-to addresses. The retailer requests payment approval from the trusted third party. The trusted third party receives payment approval from a payment partner using the payment method information determined from the anonymous identifier received from the consumer. The trusted third party provides payment approval to the retailer along a transaction unique shipment identifier to place on the parcel. The trusted third party sends the same transaction unique shipment identifier and the actual shipping address determined from the anonymous identifier received from the consumer to a shipping partner who re-labels the package and delivers it to the consumer. The trusted third party acts as an e-mail conduit for messages sent to member consumers.

A method and system for bringing together online and offline advertising uses anonymous links that are associated with consumer data. The anonymous links allow processing without personally identifiable information (PII) in a secure environment. Data is matched using the anonymous links, and further using identifiers that are encrypted for use in connection with individual match distribution partners. The method and system allows a marketer to utilize offline data to precisely target advertisements without the use of PII, and to perform analytics concerning the use of the online advertisements to more precisely determine the effectiveness of multichannel marketing efforts.

The invention discloses a digital copyright management method and device for protecting digital content consumer privacy. The method comprises the following steps: randomly generating an encrypted master key by utilizing the Chameleon hash function, and generating a copyright license; grouping the digital contents, then generating different symmetrical encrypted keys and cryptograph headers according to different groups of digital contents by adopting the Diffie-Hellman key exchange technology, encrypting the digital contents to acquire digital cryptographs, and then, storing the cryptograph headers and the digital cryptographs into a content server; and as required by users, decrypting from the cryptograph headers by utilizing the copyright license to acquire the symmetrical encrypted keys of the authorized digital contents, and then, decrypting the corresponding digital cryptographs to acquire the required digital contents. The device comprises an authorized server, a content serverand consumer equipment. Under the same security level, the invention can reduce the calculated amount, save the storage space and lower the requirements for network bandwidth.

A system, method and computer program product for enabling a user to detect nearby RFID tags and identify nearby RFID readers to enhance user privacy. A portable RFID reader scans for nearby tags, and a universal RFID tag detects nearby readers. The invention can alert the user of nearby RFID tags or readers, unless the user has disabled the alerting feature or unless a particular tag or reader is already known to the user and has been deemed allowable. A memory includes editable lists of allowable tags and readers. Exemplary alerts include outputs from a sound emitter, a vibrator, a light, or a display readout. The invention thus prevents surreptitious identification and tracking of a user and a user's possessions. The invention may be integrated into items typically carried by users so that the detection and alerting may be performed without outward indication.

A method, system, and apparatus for consumer authorized collection and communication of consumer data, while facilitating compliance with government consumer privacy legislation and regulations, is provided. Authorization is obtained from a user of a network connected appliance to collect and communicate to other entities consumer data resulting from the user's use of the appliance. The data is encrypted, linked with an appliance user anonymous identifier and communicated to a first entity, where it is analyzed by the use of defined parameters. Based on this analysis, the anonymous identifier of the appliance user is aggregated with anonymous identifiers linked with the consumer data of other appliance users whose consumer data has at least one parameter in common with the consumer data of the appliance user. The aggregate set of anonymous identifiers is provisioned to a second entity by the first entity. Subsequent interaction with the first entity provides the second entity with access to the appliance user of the appliance without revealing the identity of the appliance user or providing access to the appliance user's consumer's data.

A method and system for bringing together online and offline advertising uses partner-encoded anonymous links that are associated with consumer data. The partner-encoded anonymous links allow processing without personally identifiable information (PII) in a secure environment. Data is matched using identifiers that are encrypted for use in connection with individual match distribution partners. The method and system allows a marketer to utilize offline data to precisely target advertisements without the use of PII, and to perform analytics concerning the use of the online advertisements to more precisely determine the effectiveness of multichannel marketing efforts.

A system for generating an access control policy comprises a user interface (1) for enabling a user to indicate a topic (10) and a set of permissions (15). A document analyzer (2) analyzes the content of a plurality of documents (11) to find a set of documents (13) relating to the topic (10). A property finder (5) analyzes the content of a plurality of documents (11) to find at least one distinguishing property (12) of documents relating to the topic (10). A document selector (6) selects the set of documents (13), based on the distinguishing property (12). An associating subsystem (3) associates the set of permissions (15) with the set of documents (13) to obtain an access control policy (4).

The invention provides a logistics information transmission method. The method includes the steps: a transmitting terminal encrypts packet information according to a first privacy key preset and transmits ta first public key, corresponding to the first privacy key, to a logistics control platform; the logistics control platform encrypts the first public key according to a second public key preset and transmits the first pubic key encrypted, to a logistics terminal; the logistics terminal decrypts the first encrypted public key according to the second privacy key which is preset and which corresponds to the second public key, so as to obtain the first public key; the logistics terminal decrypts the encrypted packet information of a received packet through the first public key. The embodiment further provides a logistics information transmission device and system. The keys are used for encryption and decryption, only legitimate users can acquire address information of a receiver, and chances that privacy of consumers leaks are slimmed.

A method of negotiating an electronic commerce (e-commerce) transaction for the sale of a selected good can include identifying an asking price for the selected good and retrieving from memory merchant business objectives (MBOs) and consumer privacy rules (CPRs). The MBOs can specify incentive information corresponding to a proposed exchange of consumer information and the CPRs can specify asking prices corresponding to the proposed exchange of consumer information. The MBOs can be compared to the CPRs to determine if an agreement can be reached for the sale of the selected good with an incentive based upon the proposed exchange of consumer information. The e-commerce transaction for the sale of the selected good with the incentive can be consummated if in the comparing step it is determined that an agreement can be reached.

A method and system for maintaining the privacy of consumers wishing to make a purchase while enabling them to benefit from a group discount is provided. Consumers register with a service provider that maintains their personal information in private. When a consumer is interested in purchasing a product or patronizing a traditional “brick and mortar” establishment, the consumer provides information to the service provider regarding such interest. The service provider can query other registered consumers to determine if there are others that have a similar interest. Using the leverage of all the consumers that respond to the query, the service provider can negotiate with one or more merchants to provide some type of group offer, without having to disclose the consumers' personal information. Upon successful negotiation of a group offer, the consumers will be provided with the offer.

The invention discloses a big data correlation analysis method and system for protecting consumer privacies in electronic transaction. The method comprises the steps of data storage, data statisticalprocessing, access query and the like; the system comprises a data storage module used for initializing the system, randomly dispersing data, secretly processing the data, converting the data into ciphertexts and storing the ciphertexts in data servers, a data statistical processing module used for performing data processing of related statistical analysis calculation on the ciphertexts, and an access query module used for performing decryption calculation on the ciphertexts in a client after a user passes an access request. By using the big data correlation analysis method and system for protecting the consumer privacies in the electronic transaction, consumer information is subjected to correlation analysis favorable for market adjustment under the condition of not harming the consumer privacies. The big data correlation analysis method and system assists the user (such as, an administrator, a merchant and a researcher) to analyze the data and does not leak the data.

A system and a method are disclosed that enable advertisers, publishers, and consumers to interact to provide the well-targeted advertisement impressions, while preserve consumer privacy. Particularly, the system and the method enable the accurate and reliable targeting of advertisements without the need for privacy-invasive tracking and collection of the consumer information by the advertisers or publishers. Instead, the consumer retains complete control of his or her own private information, even while the private information is used for programmatic targeting of advertisements. The system and the method disclosed herein advantageously utilize a block chain as a tool for arbitrating data, which accounts for and helps to eliminate fraud, costly arbitrage, and brand safety concerns by providing the programmatic advertising ecosystem with trust, permanence. transparency, and auditability.