Geospatial Messaging Privacy Controls for Sensor Data Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing augmented reality systems lack effective privacy controls for geospatial messaging, allowing users to customize messages but not controlling the information about their environment shared with others.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a user-selectable information disclosure level that designates what sensor information is shared, allowing users to filter and control the data sent to others, enabling personalized and private geomessage delivery based on environmental features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If sensor information about the user's environment is shared with other users for geospatial messaging, then the personalization and targeting accuracy of messages is improved, but the user's privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments sensor information into multiple categories (location data, environmental features, objects detected) and applies different disclosure levels to each category. Users can selectively share specific types of information while maintaining privacy for other types, thus achieving both targeted messaging and privacy protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements local quality by allowing different privacy settings for different types of sensor data. Instead of a uniform privacy level, each sensor information category can have its own disclosure level (e.g., share location but not detected objects), enabling precise control over what information is revealed for messaging purposes.
2Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive sensor information is collected and shared for geospatial messaging, then the customization capability of messages is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic privacy controls where users can adjust disclosure levels in real-time based on context. The system dynamically filters sensor information according to user-selected disclosure levels before transmission, allowing comprehensive customization capability while managing complexity through automated filtering rather than manual configuration of all parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring multiple disclosure level profiles that users can select based on their privacy preferences. Instead of requiring users to manually configure each sensor parameter, the system provides pre-defined filtering profiles that are applied automatically, reducing the operational complexity while maintaining comprehensive customization capability.
3Loss of information
If detailed environmental information is transmitted to enable precise geomessage targeting, then the message relevance is improved, but the data transmission volume increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary sensor information required for effective geospatial messaging based on the selected disclosure level. Instead of transmitting all available sensor data, the system filters and extracts only the relevant subsets (e.g., location and major environmental features but not detailed object information), maintaining message relevance while reducing data transmission volume.
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AI summary
A device may include a processor. A device may include a memory configured with instructions to: receive an information disclosure level selected by a user, the information disclosure level relating to at least one sensor recording a real-world environment around the user, receive sensor information from the at least one sensor, filter the sensor information based on the information disclosure level to generate a subset of sensor information; and send the subset of sensor information to a second device.