US 2014/0180950 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM PROVIDING ADVICE AND SERVICES TO CONSUMERS

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for providing advice and/or services to a consumer including the secure electronic storage of rich private personal data preferably held on behalf of persons or entities. The system provides the applications, processes, controls and data management services to collect, transfer, store and selectively retrieve data necessary to perform specified planning and decision support activities, that have been integrated with the secure data store. The invention provides for the data owner and authorized persons to gain access to accessible data to undertake permitted tasks. These tasks may include receiving data, or undertaking planning, or such other tasks as prescribed. In an embodiment, the system limits access to applications to authorized persons and requires permissions from the owner in order to manage data privacy standards. The system allows the owner to provide and revoke access to applications and tracks and records all access events.

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Dependent claims

A computer implemented method for providing advice or service to a consumer, the method comprising:

one or more processors executing instruction code to:
store personal data in a secure repository, that is designated for the consumer and that is connected to a data communications network;
store at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction code into the secure repository, wherein the secure repository is designated for the consumer;
authorize, through the use of a processor, at least one advice or service provider, or class of advice or service providers to access the executing instruction code across the data communications network, upon provision of necessary authentication, allowing the advice or service providers' execution of the at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction code;
authorize the advice or service provider to deposit result from executing the least one segment of advice or service executing instruction code into the secure repository;
and
provide access to results deposited into the secure repository to review the advice or service.

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A computer implemented system for providing advice or service to a consumer, the system including:

a secure repository, that is designated for the consumer, and that is connected to a data communications network for storage of items of personal data of the consumer, wherein the secure repository is configured to execute computer-readable program code to:
store at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction code into the secure repository, wherein the secure repository is designated for the consumer;
provide identification of a particular advice or service provider or a class of advice or service providers to the consumer, such that the consumer may select to whom access to the at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction code is provided;
and
a processing device associated with the computer implemented system, the processing device configured to execute computer-readable program code to:
authenticate the identity of one or more authorized advice or service providers;
provide an authenticated authorized advice or service provider access to execute the at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction code, wherein the at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction code executing functions include specified items of the personal data in the secure repository and provide results of the executing functions to the authenticated authorized advice or service provider;
and
allow the authenticated authorized advice or service provider to deposit results into the secure repository for subsequent access by the consumer.

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A computer implemented method for a consumer to receive advice or service, the method being executed by one or more processors executing instruction code, the method comprising:

storing personal data in a consumer designated section of a secure repository, wherein the secure repository is connected to a data communications network;
approving at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction code for execution to perform functions in respect of a consumer's personal data file, the approval occurring by receiving authorization from the consumer to store the at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction code into the consumer designated section of the secure repository;
authorizing, through the use of a processor, at least one advice or service provider, or a class of advice or service providers, to execute the at least one segment of advice or service computer instruction, code and store results into the consumer designated section of the secure repository;
and
allowing access to the consumer designated section of the secure repository to the at least one advice or service provider, or the class of advice or service providers, wherein consumer designated section of the secure repository accessed are designated sections relating to advice or service that are provided by the at least one advice or service provider, or the class of advice or service providers receiving access.

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A computer readable medium having computer instruction code embedded thereon, the computer instruction code being executable by a processor for performing a method of providing advice or service to a consumer, the method comprising:

receiving a request from the consumer to store personal data in a consumer designated section of the secure repository that is connected to a data communications network;
receiving details from the consumer of at least one advice or service provider, or class of advice or service providers, that are authorized to provide advice or services to the consumer;
receiving a request from a consumer to store a segment of advice or service computer instruction code in the consumer designated section of the secure repository;
receiving a request from an authorized advice or service provider to access the segment of advice or service computer instruction code in the consumer designated section of the secure repository upon provision of necessary authentication, the authorized advice or service provider executing the segment of advice or service computer instruction code in the consumer designated section of the secure repository and depositing results into to the consumer designated section of the secure repository, wherein thee results represent advice or service provided to the consumer;
and
receiving a request from the consumer to access the results deposited into the consumer designated section of the secure repository.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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