Networked Privacy System IP Address Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The collection of networking protocol addresses, such as IP addresses, coupled with data on media consumption activities, raises privacy concerns due to varying regional regulations, necessitating a system to preserve user privacy while allowing data collection and analysis.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that define source privacy zones with associated privacy standards, including frequency criteria, to govern the storage of datasets, where networking protocol addresses are discarded, and datasets are pre-processed to comply with these standards before being stored in a filtered database, ensuring user privacy and statistical integrity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If networking protocol addresses are collected and stored with media consumption data, then data completeness and analysis capability are improved, but user privacy protection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes networking protocol addresses (IP addresses) from datasets before storage or sharing. The system collects complete data including IP addresses for analysis, then extracts and removes the identifying IP address information while retaining the media consumption data, thereby maintaining data completeness for analysis while eliminating privacy risks associated with IP address collection
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the data processing into distinct stages: data collection with IP addresses, IP address extraction/removal, and storage of anonymized data. This segmentation allows the system to handle complete data during processing while ensuring privacy protection in stored datasets, resolving the contradiction between data completeness and privacy protection
2Object-affected harmful factors
If IP addresses are discarded to protect privacy, then user privacy protection is improved, but data utility and analysis capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing IP address removal at the earliest appropriate stage in the data pipeline - immediately after data collection and before storage or sharing. This preliminary removal ensures privacy protection is built into the system from the start, while the system retains the capability to use complete data with IP addresses for analysis purposes before the removal step, thus maintaining data utility while protecting privacy
3Reliability
If data is pre-processed to comply with privacy standards, then regulatory compliance is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component - a dedicated IP address removal module or function - that sits between data collection and storage/analysis. This intermediary handles the privacy compliance task of removing IP addresses, isolating the complexity of privacy regulation compliance into a single, manageable component while maintaining simple interfaces for the rest of the system, thus improving regulatory compliance without excessively increasing overall system complexity
Data Source
AI summary
Preserving privacy related to networked media consumption activity. Privacy zones are defined and associated with privacy standards. Privacy standards include frequency criteria governing the storage of datasets including information associated with networked media consumption activity collected from the privacy zone. Transaction requests are received over a network from a client device at a location by a networked privacy system. The privacy zone associated with the client device is identified. A dataset can be created including information associating the networked media consumption activity. The dataset is processed to comply with the privacy standards. The processed dataset can be stored in a database on a physical storage device at a storage location coupled to the networked privacy system.