Location tracking permissions and privacy
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsChristopher Paretti, Ori Zaltzman, Joseph O'Sullivan, Kristijan Mihalic, Marc E. Davis, Christopher W. Higgins
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AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsChristopher Paretti, Ori Zaltzman, Joseph O'Sullivan, Kristijan Mihalic, Marc E. Davis, Christopher W. Higgins
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A location tracking privacy engine is described herein that is configured to allow users to define privacy policies that govern how location information about each user is provided to context-aware applications and services. Privacy policies can be defined in a highly flexible and context-specific manner such that the execution of a given privacy policy by the location tracking privacy engine is dependent on the existence of one or more social, topical, temporal or spatial conditions. Privacy policies are then executed automatically by the location tracking privacy engine when the conditions associated with the policies are determined to be satisfied.
A method for permitting a user to control the manner in which location information associated with the user is provided to one or more applications or services, comprising:
A system comprising:
A method for enabling a user to modify logged location information associated with the user, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.