Content Bundle Presentation With User Data Isolation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies fail to adequately protect user data privacy by allowing applications direct access to sensitive information, leading to potential data mining and unauthorized viewing of content.

Innovation Solution

Implementing system processes that generate content item bundles independently of applications, presenting them through a user interface separate from application interfaces, and requiring user consent for data access, thereby isolating user data from applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If applications are allowed direct access to user data, then applications can provide personalized content suggestions, but user data privacy is compromised due to potential data mining and unauthorized viewing

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersonalized content suggestionsVSAvoiddata privacy compromise

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a system process as an intermediary between applications and user data. This mediator generates content item bundles from user data without applications having direct access to the raw data. The system process acts as a buffer that protects user privacy while still enabling personalized content suggestions through the bundled content items.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the data access process into separate components: the system process that accesses and bundles user data, and the application that receives only the bundled content items. This segmentation isolates the sensitive data access operations from the application layer, allowing personalized suggestions while maintaining privacy boundaries.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Object-affected harmful factors

If system processes isolate user data from applications to protect privacy, then data privacy is preserved, but applications cannot directly access content items

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata privacy protectionVSAvoidapplication data access

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system process serves as an intermediary that simplifies application operations by handling all data access complexities. Applications can request content item bundles through standard interfaces without needing to implement complex privacy-preserving access logic themselves. The intermediary manages the isolation while providing ease of use to applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system process autonomously generates and manages content item bundles without requiring applications to directly access or manage user data. The bundling process is self-contained within the system process, which automatically handles data retrieval, bundling, and delivery to applications, making the process simple for applications while maintaining strong privacy protections.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12524570B2Privacy-preserving presentation of content item bundles

Publication Date: 2026.01.13 APPLE INC

AI summary

The subject system may be implemented by at least one processor configured to, by a system process, receive a request for one or more content item bundles, obtain the one or more content item bundles for presentation of the one or more content item bundles, receive a selection of a content item bundle from the presented one or more content item bundles, and providing, to the application process, one or more content items of the selected content item bundle. The one or more content item bundles are inaccessible to an application process before they are provided to the application process by the system process.