US 12,238,384 B2Granted

Swivel search system

AssigneeAdeia Media Solutions Inc.

InventorsShelly Glennon, Robert F Poniatowski, Bryan James, Brian Beach

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Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for, in response to determining that an election to opt into a privacy policy has not been received from the user (or that an election to opt out of the privacy policy has been received from the user) using limited functionality of a data provider system to select, from a set of candidate data items and using a particular selection criterion (not based on personal information of the user), data items to be transmitted. System and methods may be further provided for, in response to determining that an election to opt into the privacy policy has been received (or that an election to opt out of the privacy policy has not been received), using full functionality search of the data provider system to select data items from the set of candidate data items based at least in part on the accessed personal information.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

providing a user-controllable user interface privacy setting to indicate whether a data provider system is permitted to use a first subset of personal information of a user when identifying data items to be provided to a device of the user;
accessing a privacy policy indicating whether the data provider system is permitted to use a second subset of the personal information of the user when identifying data items to be provided to the device of the user;
based at least in part on receiving user interface input configuring the privacy setting to indicate that the data provider system is not permitted to use the first subset of the personal information of the user:
using limited functionality of the data provider system to select, from a plurality of data items, at least one data item to be provided to the device of the user, wherein in selecting the at least one data item, the limited functionality does not utilize the first subset of the personal information of the user, and either utilizes or does not utilize the second subset of the personal information of the user based on the privacy policy;
and
providing the at least one data item to the device of the user;
and
based at least in part on receiving user interface input configuring the privacy setting to indicate that the data provider system is permitted to use the first subset of the personal information of the user:
using full functionality of the data provider system to select, from the plurality of data items, one or more data items to be provided to the device of the user, wherein in selecting the one or more data items, the full functionality utilizes the first subset of the personal information of the user, and either utilizes or does not utilize the second subset of the personal information of the user based on the privacy policy;
and
providing the one or more data items to the device of the user.

8 more elements

A system for applying privacy preferences of a user to a data provider system, the system comprising:

storage;
and
processing circuitry configured to:
provide a user-controllable user interface privacy setting to indicate whether a data provider system is permitted to use a first subset of personal information of a user when identifying data items to be provided to a device of the user;
access a privacy policy indicating whether the data provider system is permitted to use a second subset of the personal information of the user when identifying data items to be provided to the device of the user;
based at least in part on receiving user interface input configuring the privacy setting to indicate that the data provider system is not permitted to use the first subset of the personal information of the user:
use limited functionality of the data provider system to select, from a plurality of data items, at least one data item to be provided to the device of the user, wherein in selecting the at least one data item, the limited functionality does not utilize the first subset of the personal information of the user, and either utilizes or does not utilize the second subset of the personal information of the user based on the privacy policy;
and
provide the at least one data item to the device of the user;
and
based at least in part on receiving user interface input configuring the privacy setting to indicate that the data provider system is permitted to use the first subset of the personal information of the user:
use full functionality of the data provider system to select, from the plurality of data items, one or more data items to be provided to the device of the user, wherein in selecting the one or more data items, the full functionality utilizes the first subset of the personal information of the user, and either utilizes or does not utilize the second subset of the personal information of the user based on the privacy policy;
and
provide the one or more data items to the device of the user.

11 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/674,088Filed 24 May 2024 · continuation
Priority: 15 May 2007
Published: US 2024/0040204 A17 Nov 2024
Granted: 25 Feb 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification27 codes

H04N 21/4828
End-user interface for programme selection: for searching programme descriptors
G06F 16/3325
Query formulation: reformulation based on results of preceding query
G06F 16/7867
Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually: using information manually…
G06F 16/9537
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Family

Application60/930,419Us provisional application · filed 15 May 2007
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