Privacy Manager for Location-Based Notification Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current computing systems fail to effectively protect user privacy while delivering location-based services, leading to decreased usability and increased concerns about data exposure.
Innovation Solution
A method for determining a communication context and generating disclosure permissions to control user exposure to advertisers or publishers, allowing for controlled presentation of target notifications based on user preferences and privacy settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If location-based services are used to deliver relevant information and notifications, then the relevance and usefulness of content delivery is improved, but user privacy protection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a privacy manager as an intermediary component between location-based services and users. This mediator evaluates location information against user-defined privacy policies before any data is exposed to advertisers or publishers, thus enabling relevant content delivery while protecting user privacy through controlled intermediation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the level of privacy protection based on changing parameters such as user location, context, and privacy policy settings. By modifying privacy parameters in real-time based on situational context, the system can deliver relevant notifications when appropriate while maintaining strong privacy protection when needed, resolving the contradiction between relevance and privacy.
2Reliability
If user privacy is strengthened through strict data protection, then user trust and privacy protection are improved, but the effectiveness of location-based services deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The privacy protection level is made dynamic rather than static. The system continuously adapts privacy settings based on real-time context such as user location, activity, and environmental factors. This dynamic approach allows the system to maintain strong privacy protection by default while automatically relaxing restrictions to enable effective location-based services when the context demands, thus resolving the contradiction between reliability and productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes privacy parameters dynamically based on contextual factors. When a user is in a location where location-based services are appropriate (e.g., near a point of interest), the system adjusts privacy parameters to allow service delivery. When privacy risk is detected, parameters are tightened. This parameter change mechanism enables both strong privacy protection and effective service delivery without compromise.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive location data is collected and processed, then the accuracy and relevance of notifications is improved, but data exposure and privacy risk increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary location information needed for notification delivery and discards or anonymizes the rest. Instead of processing comprehensive location data, the privacy manager extracts minimal required data points (such as current location coordinates) and uses only those for generating notifications, thereby maintaining notification accuracy while minimizing data exposure and privacy risk.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies partial action by processing only the portion of location data that is actually needed for the specific notification task. Rather than analyzing comprehensive user behavior patterns or historical location data, the system processes only current, relevant location information, thus achieving sufficient notification accuracy without the excessive data processing that would increase privacy risk.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of operation of a computing system includes: determining a communication context with a control unit for communicating a target notification to a device; generating a disclosure permission for controlling a user's exposure to an advertiser, a publisher, or a combination thereof; and determining a presentation opportunity based on the communication context, the disclosure permission, or a combination thereof for presenting the target notification.