Mobile Content Mining Protection via Restriction Marks
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile applications lack consistency in features, link structure, and user interface, and cannot be crawled, preventing personalized user experiences through content mining, such as personalized search and targeted advertising.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a content agent on mobile devices that can mine and analyze visual and audio content, with the option for users and developers to designate content for protection using mining-restriction marks, allowing granular control over data elements and media types.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a content agent mines and analyzes visual and audio content on mobile devices, then personalized user experience is improved, but user privacy and content protection are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary anti-action by inserting mining-restriction marks into content before it is displayed on the mobile device. These marks serve as pre-established protective measures that prevent the content agent from mining protected content, thereby addressing privacy concerns before they can manifest. The marks are embedded in the frame buffer data at the source, creating a proactive barrier against unauthorized content analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The mining-restriction mark acts as an intermediary between the content and the content agent. Rather than directly blocking the content agent's access or removing protective capabilities, the mark serves as a mediating element that communicates protection status to the content agent, enabling the system to distinguish between mineable and protected content without completely disabling the content agent's functionality.
2Reliability
If mining-restriction marks are inserted to protect content, then content protection is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by embedding minimal metadata (mining-restriction marks) within the existing frame buffer data structure. Rather than creating separate protection layers or modifying the underlying content, the system copies protection information into the data stream that the content agent already processes, leveraging existing infrastructure to reduce overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters by utilizing the existing frame buffer data structure and adding mining-restriction marks as metadata within that structure. This approach modifies the data representation slightly but maintains compatibility with existing processing pipelines, avoiding the need for entirely new protection mechanisms and reducing implementation complexity.
3Reliability
If developers automatically include mining-restriction marks, then content protection is improved, but ease of operation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies dynamics by making the mining-restriction mark inclusion configurable rather than fixed. Developers can choose to automatically include marks for all content, selectively apply them to specific content types, or opt-out entirely. This dynamic control mechanism allows the protection behavior to adapt to different development needs and content scenarios, balancing automated protection with developer flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The mining-restriction mark mechanism serves multiple functions: it provides automatic protection when enabled, allows selective protection for specific content types, and can be completely disabled if needed. This multi-functionality enables the same technical mechanism to satisfy different protection requirements without requiring separate systems, thereby maintaining ease of operation across diverse use cases.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods prevent or restrict the mining of content on a mobile device. For example, a method may include identifying a mining-restriction mark in low order bits or high order bits in a frame buffer of a mobile device and determining whether the mining-restriction mark prevents mining of content. Mining includes non-transient storage of a copy or derivations of data in the frame buffer. The method may also include preventing the mining of data in the frame buffer when the mining-restriction mark prevents mining.