US 10,257,199 B2Granted

Online privacy management system with enhanced automatic information detection

AssigneeEnsighten, Inc.

InventorsJoshua C. Goodwin, Joshua R. Manion

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Abstract

A privacy management system (PMS) is disclosed for a Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) or other user to use in monitoring and/or controlling in realtime the flow of data (e.g., outflow) about the user and his/her online experience. The PMS may employ pattern recognition software to evaluate analytics data and potentially block private information from being sent within the analytics data. The PMS may provide a dashboard displaying a whitelist and/or blacklist indicating what destinations/sources are blocked or allowed as well as private information settings indicating what types of private information should be blocked. The PMS includes browser-client scripting code and may also include a PMS-certified verification icon and/or lock and unlock icons for display on webpages being monitored/controlled in realtime by the PMS.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

presenting, by a computing device, a user interface configured to receive user input indicating that transmission of a type of private information to a remotely-located computing device is not permitted;
creating, by the computing device, a push model object, wherein the push model object performs push model functionality of a wrapper object that overrides a predefined object;
copying, by the computing device, user-related data of a first node of an object model of a webpage into the push model object;
configuring, by the computing device, the push model object to perform an analysis of the user-related data responsive to an attempt to access the user-related data by a second node of the object model;
configuring, by the computing device, the push model object to prevent the second node from accessing the user-related data responsive to determining from the analysis that the user-related data corresponds to the type of private information;
configuring, by the computing device, the push model object to refrain from providing the user-related data to the second node;
configuring, by the computing device, the push model object to obtain modified user-related data based on the user-related data of the push model object and provide the modified user-related data to the second node instead of the user-related data, wherein a format of the modified user-related data matches a format of the user-related data;
and
replacing, by the computing device, the first node of the object model with the push model object.

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An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;
a display device;
and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by one or more of the processors, cause the apparatus to perform steps comprising:
presenting, at the display device, a user interface configured to receive user input indicating that transmission of a type of private information to a remotely-located computing device is not permitted;
creating, in the memory, a push model object, wherein the push model object performs push model functionality of a wrapper object that overrides a predefined object;
copying user-related data of a first node of an object model of a webpage into the push model object;
configuring the push model object to perform an analysis of the user-related data responsive to an attempt to access the user-related data by a second node of the object model;
configuring the push model object to prevent the second node from accessing the user-related data responsive to determining from the analysis that the user-related data corresponds to the type of private information;
configuring the push model object to refrain from providing the user-related data to the second node;
configuring the push model object to obtain modified user-related data based on the user-related data of the push model object and provide the modified user-related data to the second node instead of the user-related data, wherein a format of the modified user-related data matches a format of the user-related data;
and
replacing the first node of the object model with the push model object.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, that when executed, cause an apparatus to:

present a user interface configured to receive user input indicating that transmission of a type of private information to another computing device is not permitted;
replicate a first node of an object model of a webpage to obtain a wrapper object comprising user-related data of the first node;
configure the wrapper object to perform an analysis of the user-related data responsive to an attempt to access the user-related data by a second node of the object model;
configure the wrapper object to prevent the second node from accessing the user-related data responsive to determining from the analysis that the user-related data corresponds to the type of private information;
configure the wrapper object to refrain from providing the user-related data to the second node;
configure the wrapper object to obtain modified user-related data based on the user-related data of the wrapper object and provide the modified user-related data to the second node instead of the user-related data, wherein a format of the modified user-related data matches a format of the user-related data;
and
replacing the first node of the object model with the wrapper object.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/925,129Filed 19 Mar 2018 · continuation
Priority: 30 Dec 2010
Published: US 2018/0212972 A126 Jul 2018
Granted: 9 Apr 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04L 63/101
For controlling access to devices or network resources: access control lists [ACL]
G06F 21/62
Protecting data: protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
G06F 21/6245
To a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database: protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
G06Q 30/02
Commerce: marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

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