Privacy Control Circuit with User-Specific Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inadequate control and disclosure when allowing access to their information, with existing technologies failing to provide effective privacy management mechanisms in modern computing systems.
Innovation Solution
A computing system with a control circuit that determines a privacy baseline and application-specific settings to generate a user-specific privacy profile, providing graphical risk summaries and recommendations for controlling communication across multiple devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users allow access to their information through existing technologies, then functionality and device capability are improved, but privacy control and user disclosure are inadequate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing application-specific privacy settings that allow different privacy levels for different applications and data types. Instead of a single global privacy setting, the system enables users to specify granular control over which applications can access specific types of information (photos, contacts, location, etc.), thereby maintaining both device functionality and privacy control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments privacy control into multiple dimensions: application-level settings, data-type-level settings, and user-specific profiles. This segmentation allows users to control privacy on a fine-grained basis, separating different aspects of information access control to achieve both versatility and reliability.
2Ease of operation
If broad level control is provided for information access, then ease of operation is improved, but privacy management effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic privacy control through user-specific privacy profiles that can be customized and adjusted over time. The system allows users to dynamically change privacy settings based on different contexts, applications, and user preferences, rather than providing static broad-level control. This dynamic approach maintains ease of operation while improving privacy management effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by providing privacy settings and controls before applications access user information. The system establishes privacy baselines and user-specific profiles in advance, so that when applications request access to information, the appropriate privacy controls are already in place. This prevents inadequate disclosure after the fact and maintains both ease of operation and privacy effectiveness.
3Measurement precision
If personalized privacy profiles are generated, then privacy control precision is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a multi-functional privacy control system that handles multiple applications, data types, and user profiles through a unified framework. The same privacy baseline and control mechanisms serve across different applications and contexts, reducing the need for separate complex systems for each scenario while maintaining high precision control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by creating user-specific privacy profiles that replicate and adapt the privacy baseline for individual users. Instead of building entirely new complex systems for each user, the system copies the foundational privacy baseline and customizes it for each user's specific needs and preferences, thereby improving precision while managing complexity.
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AI summary
A computing system includes: a control circuit configured to: determine a privacy baseline for controlling communication for a user, determine an application-specific privacy setting for controlling communication for a first executable program associated with the user, generate a user-specific privacy profile based on the privacy baseline and the application-specific privacy setting, the user-specific privacy profile for controlling an application set including a second executable program; and a storage circuit, coupled to the control circuit, configured to store the user-specific privacy profile.