US 2023/0276229 A1 · ON-DEVICE DATA PRIVACY OPERATIONS TO PREVENT DATA SHARING AT USER LOCATIONS

Abstract

There are provided systems and methods for on-device data privacy operations to prevent data sharing at user locations. A service provider, such as a merchant location of a merchant and/or associated online transaction processor, may provide additional services for to users via user data that may be tracked or stored of the user. However, the user may not want to share certain data with the merchant or other backend processor for privacy concerns. Thus, on-device data privacy operations may be used to detect when a user is at a location that has a corresponding privacy setting to hide or abstract user data for the location. The privacy setting may designate data to prevent from sharing when the user uses their device with devices associated with the location. Abstracted data associated with recommendations or actions to provide the user may be generated and provided to a merchant for the location.

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Dependent claims

A mobile device system comprising:

a non-transitory memory;
and
one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the mobile device system to perform operations comprising:
detecting that the mobile device system is within a threshold distance to a merchant location;
determining a user profile for a user associated with the mobile device system;
determining, based on the user profile, that the user has a first privacy setting enabled to prevent at least a portion of user information from being provided to a merchant corresponding to the merchant location;
utilizing one or more models to determine, based on the user information, one or more recommendations or actions;
abstracting information corresponding to the one or more recommendations or actions based on the first privacy setting, wherein the abstracted information does not include identification information corresponding to the user;
and
transmitting the abstracted information to a device corresponding to the merchant location.

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A method comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device from a user associated with the mobile device, a request to share user data with a location-specific device associated with a location, wherein the request comprises a privacy setting indicating shareable data associated with the user by the mobile device with the location-specific device;
accessing, based on the request, a user profile associated with historical data of the user, wherein the historical data comprises user data or identification data of the user from past activities of the user and past dates of the past activities;
determining, using one or more models and the user profile, a predicted activity by the user at the location;
determining, based on the privacy setting for the request and the predicted activity, abstracted data associated with the user and the predicted activity;
generating a digital data package for the abstracted data that prevents user identifying information from being provided to the location-specific device;
and
providing the digital data package to the location-specific device.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device of a user from a data tracking device associated with a merchant location, a request for user data of the user when the mobile device is at or approaching the merchant location;
detecting a geolocation of the mobile device;
determining the merchant location based on the request and the geolocation;
accessing a user profile comprising a plurality of privacy settings for a plurality of merchant locations;
determining, from the user profile and a data model that abstracts user information for the user to hide at least one of a user identifier or identification information of the user, a privacy setting of the plurality of privacy settings for the merchant location;
abstracting, based on the privacy setting and the data model, the user information for sharing with the data tracking device for the merchant location;
generating a digital representation of the abstracted user information, wherein the digital representation obscures an identity of the user from being revealed to the data tracking device;
and
outputting the digital representation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

On-device data privacy operations to prevent data sharing at user locations

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