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US 9,002,753 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for providing a personal value for an individual
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsThomas Anschutz, James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr., Robert Edwards
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating a personal value for a user are disclosed. For example, the method collects data associated with the user, wherein the data that is collected comprises social connection data, enhances the data that is collected, receives a request, and generates a response to the request by using a personal value for the user, where the personal value is generated from the data that is enhanced.
Claims15
A method for generating a personal value for a user, comprising:
- collecting, by a processor, data associated with the user, wherein the data that is collected comprises social connection data and societal connection data, wherein the societal connection data comprises a number of societal groups that the user is associated with;
- enhancing, by the processor, the data that is collected, wherein the data that is collected comprises sensitive data, wherein the enhancing the data that is collected comprises:
- correlating the data to generate new data through inference;
- tracking an inheritance of the sensitive data by the new data;
- and
- desensitizing the new data, wherein the desensitizing the new data comprises enriching the new data with additional data that prevents the sensitive data from being inferred from the new data;
- generating, by the processor, the personal value for the user, wherein the personal value for the user is modified in response to the data that is collected and in response to the new data that is generated, wherein the personal value is modified based upon the number of societal groups that the user is associated with;
- receiving, by the processor, a request;
- determining, by the processor, in response to the request whether the personal value for the user is permitted to be accessed based upon a preference of the user;
- and
- generating, by the processor, a response to the request by using the personal value for the user when the personal value for the user is permitted to be accessed.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for generating a personal value for a user, the operations comprising:
- collecting data associated with the user, wherein the data that is collected comprises social connection data and societal connection data, wherein the societal connection data comprises a number of societal groups that the user is associated with;
- enhancing the data that is collected, wherein the data that is collected comprises sensitive data, wherein the enhancing the data that is collected comprises:
- correlating the data to generate new data through inference;
- tracking an inheritance of the sensitive data by the new data;
- and
- desensitizing the new data, wherein the desensitizing the new data comprises enriching the new data with additional data that prevents the sensitive data from being inferred from the new data;
- generating the personal value for the user, wherein the personal value for the user is modified in response to the data that is collected, wherein the personal value is modified based upon the number of societal groups that the user is associated with;
- receiving a request;
- determining in response to the request whether the personal value for the user is permitted to be accessed based upon a preference of the user;
- and
- generating a response to the request by using the personal value for the user when the personal value for the user is permitted to be accessed.
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An apparatus for generating a personal value for a user, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- collecting data associated with the user, wherein the data that is collected comprises social connection data and societal connection data, wherein the societal connection data comprises a number of societal groups that the user is associated with;
- enhancing the data that is collected, wherein the data that is collected comprises sensitive data, wherein the enhancing the data that is collected comprises:
- correlating the data to generate new data through inference;
- tracking an inheritance of the sensitive data by the new data;
- and
- desensitizing the new data, wherein the desensitizing the new data comprises enriching the new data with additional data that prevents the sensitive data from being inferred from the new data;
- generating the personal value for the user, wherein the personal value for the user is modified in response to the data that is collected, wherein the personal value is modified based upon the number of societal groups that the user is associated with;
- receiving a request;
- determining in response to the request whether the personal value for the user is permitted to be accessed based upon a preference of the user;
- and
- generating a response to the request by using the personal value for the user when the personal value for the user is permitted to be accessed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.