User Profile Processing for Secure Server Transmission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information processing systems require users to perform tedious and time-consuming procedures to protect their user profiles when transmitting them to servers, which does not fully address the need for secure and simple operations.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system and method that allows a user profile to be transmitted confidentially to a server with a simple operation by using a first information processing apparatus to process and transmit history information to a second apparatus, which determines and generates a list of recommended contents based on the processed data, enabling secure and efficient user profile management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users manually set and register their user profile information for protection, then the security of user profile transmission is improved, but the operation complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity of user profile transmissionVSAvoidoperation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The information processing apparatus automatically generates and transmits user profile information without requiring manual user input. The system self-manages the profile creation, processing, and transmission to the server, eliminating the need for users to perform tedious manual settings while maintaining security through automated encryption and data handling procedures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-processes and prepares user profile information before transmission to the server. By advancing the profile generation and processing steps before the actual transmission occurs, the system eliminates the need for users to perform manual setup at the time of transmission, thereby simplifying operation while maintaining security

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If users manually select and register private information for transmission, then the control over personal data is improved, but the time consumption and operational burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata privacy controlVSAvoidtime consumption for settings
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The apparatus automatically determines which private information to include in the user profile and transmits it to the server without requiring users to manually select or register each data element. This self-service approach maintains data privacy control through automated filtering and selection mechanisms while eliminating the time-consuming manual registration process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-determines and prepares the list of private information to be transmitted before the user initiates the process. By advancing the data selection and profile assembly steps in advance, the system maintains user privacy control while eliminating the need for users to spend time manually selecting and registering their data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS7387254B2Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus and method, and program
Publication Date: 2008.06.17 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

An information processing system and method, information processing apparatus and method, and program is provided. A user profile memory of a client (user terminal) stores a user profile representing a history of contents that have been operated in the past by the user. If the user profile is to be transmitted to a server, a profile processor processes at least part of the user profile according to a predetermined rule, and transmits the processed information as a processed user profile to the server via a communication controller and a network. The server performs a process of determining contents to be recommended to the user based on the processed user profile. The present invention is applicable to a client (user terminal) that can be used by the user.