Privacy preserving personal health record service ecosystem trials
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsMARK ANTHONY HENNESSY, MURTAZA BULUT, MARK THOMAS JOHNSON
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Abstract
A user device comprises an app that stores and maintains exclusive control of user data, and causes one or more processors to send a request for services according to a trial period to a distributed ledger associated with service providers and anonymously interact with the service providers according to a set of rules maintained in the distributed ledger by passing along a token uniquely associated with the user during for the respective interaction with each service provider without the user data being shared with the service providers.
Claims20
A user device, comprising:
- a communications interface configured to enable communications with service providers, the service providers providing trial period services comprising a trial period of a defined type;
- a memory comprising an app that provides exclusive control of access to data of a user stored therein;
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- one or more processors configured by the app to:
- cause a request for service indication to be provided to a distributed ledger associated with the service providers, the distributed ledger comprising a set of rules pertaining to the trial period services, the request comprising a unique token;
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- based on acceptance of the request, anonymously interact with the trial period services, an interaction with each trial period service accompanied with a transfer of a token and based on compliance at each of a plurality of monitored time instances of a set of rules during each of the trial period services, each interaction with the trial period services occurring while retaining exclusive storage of the data of the user in the memory, each of the trial period services associated with a respective one of the service providers.
A system, comprising:
- plural service providers, each configured to provide a trial period service collectively comprising a trial period of a defined type;
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- a computing device comprising a distributed ledger communicatively coupled to the plural service providers, wherein the distributed ledger comprises a set of rules, the distributed ledger configured to:
- receive a transaction from a user device, the transaction providing an indication of an anonymous user associated with the user device of participating in the trial period, the transaction comprising a token uniquely associated with the user device;
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- transfer the token to a first service provider of the plural service providers and then subsequent service providers of the plural service providers based on, respectively, acceptance of the transaction and user interaction with the respective trial period services after the transaction, wherein the distributed ledger enforces compliance with, for each trial period service of a respective one of the plural service providers in possession of the token, a trial period service duration established according to the set of rules while maintaining anonymity of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.