Secure data interchange
AssigneePinpoint, Incorporated
InventorsFrederick S. M. Herz, Walter Paul Labys, David C. Parkes, Sampath Kannan, Jason M. Eisner
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Abstract
A system for exchanging data includes a communication system, a first and a second party connected to the communication system, wherein each party has personal data, and each party has a disclosure policy to control dissemination of its data, and a secure intermediate party connected to the communication system, wherein the secure intermediate party exchanges data between the first and second parties in accordance with their respective disclosure policies.
Claims10
A method of allowing access to data over a distributed data processing system, the method comprising:
- providing an automated infrastructure for the exchange of information between multiple self-interested parties;
- providing a trusted server with at least one data warehouse for the storage of said information, wherein the trusted server includes a processor;
- associating a price rule with particular data records of said information which establishes a cost of accessing said particular data records, and which controls the access to that data;
- wherein said price rule enables a data owner associated with said data to specify a different price for different types and amounts of information access;
- within said trusted server, providing a data processing platform which is accessible to multiple third-party data processing software programs which operate as software agents;
- wherein a plurality of seller-side software agents have defined relationships to said price rules and associated data records, and maintain absolute access control to said data records;
- wherein a plurality of buyer-side software agents have regulated query access to said data processing platform and may request pricing information from said seller-side software agents;
- wherein said plurality of seller-side software agents and said plurality of buyer-side software agents operate as persistent data processing systems which interact with one another repeatedly over time and which thus define a virtual marketplace.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.