Patent Grant
12155641
Client applications can access resources from servers. In many cases, applications utilize identifiers of user profiles to access information related to a user. However, synchronizing data structures in a networked environment across many disparate computing systems is challenging, because it unnecessarily occupies excessive network resources, and creates additional security risks for breaches of user information when accessing and synchronizing information stored in user profiles.
Embodiments of the systems and methods of the technical solutions disclosed herein solve these and other issues by providing network tokens, which can specify certain portions of data maintained at secondary computing systems. In conventional computing systems that share information, several application programming interface (API) calls are each used to retrieve specific data. However, maintaining information about the parameters and attributes of each API call, as well as the additional code to organize and update each API call for each secondary computing system, utilizes excessive computational resources and reduces overall available network bandwidth. For example, when several data records must be synchronized across a primary and a secondary computing system, several API calls must be made to perform this data transfer. These problems compound when tokens are required to authorize access to each data record, as specific tokens must be created through a communication handshake for each synchronized resource.
Moreover, embodiments of the systems and methods of the technical solutions disclosed herein solve these issues by providing network tokens, which may be generated to specify a specific subset of data records or resources at a secondary computing system that a primary computing system is authorized to access. Additionally, the systems and methods the present disclosure provide meta-API calls, which allow for a single API call to be used to request several portions of disparate data maintained at a secondary computing system. By utilizing a single API call for several portions of information, the present techniques reduce the overall utilization of network bandwidth (e.g., by requiring significantly fewer communications between the primary and secondary computing systems) of the system, while maintaining the privacy and security of protected information.
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for retrieving information from secondary computing systems using network access tokens. The method can be performed, for example, by one or more processors coupled to a memory. The method can include providing a user interface that lists a plurality of secondary computing systems to a client application executing at a client device associated with a user profile of the primary computing system. The method can include, responsive to detecting a selection of a secondary computing system of the plurality of secondary computing systems at the user interface, receiving, from the client device, a network token identifying a permission for accessing a second profile maintained at the secondary computing system. The method can include determining a subset of data records of the second user profile that the primary computing system is permitted to access. The method can include retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing system according to a retrieval policy. The method can include updating the user interface at the client application to present the subset of data records of the second profile.
In some implementations, the method can further include receiving, from the secondary computing system, authorization to access an application programming interface of the secondary computing system. In some implementations of the method, the subset of data records can be retrieved using the API of the secondary computing system. In some implementations of the method, determining the subset of data records can include parsing the network token received from the client device.
In some implementations, the method can further include updating the user profile based on the subset of data records of the second profile. In some implementations of the method, the network token can indicate that the subset of data records can be accessed periodically. In some implementations of the method, retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing device can include periodically retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing device. In some implementations of the method, retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing device can include performing a single API call using the API of the secondary computing system.
In some implementations of the method, the single API call can include one or more parameters identified in the network token. In some implementations of the method, the network token can include an expiration time stamp. In some implementations of the method, it can include, and further including providing a prompt to the client application indicating that the network token has expired responsive when a current time exceeds the expiration time stamp.
Another aspect of the present disclosure relates to a system for retrieving information from secondary computing systems using network access tokens. The system can include one or more processors coupled to a memory. The system can provide a user interface that lists a plurality of secondary computing systems to a client application executing at a client device associated with a user profile of the primary computing system. The system can, responsive to detecting a selection of a secondary computing system of the plurality of secondary computing systems at the user interface, receive, from the client device, a network token identifying a permission for accessing a second profile maintained at the secondary computing system. The system can determine a subset of data records of the second user profile that the primary computing system is permitted to access. The system can retrieve the subset of data records from the secondary computing system according to a retrieval policy. The system can update the user interface at the client application to present the subset of data records of the second profile.
In some implementations, the system can receive, from the secondary computing system, authorization to access an application programming interface of the secondary computing system. In some implementations of the system, the subset of data records can be retrieved using the API of the secondary computing system. In some implementations of the system, determining the subset of data records can include parsing the network token received from the client device.
In some implementations, the system can update the user profile based on the subset of data records of the second profile. In some implementations of the system, the network token can indicate that the subset of data records can be accessed periodically. In some implementations of the system, retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing device can include periodically retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing device.
In some implementations of the system, retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing device can include performing a single API call using the API of the secondary computing system. In some implementations of the system, the single API call can include one or more parameters identified in the network token. In some implementations of the system, the network token can include an expiration time stamp. In some implementations, the system can provide a prompt to the client application indicating that the network token has expired responsive when a current time exceeds the expiration time stamp.
At least one other aspect of the present disclosure relates to a non-transient computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform a method for retrieving information from secondary computing systems using network access tokens. The method can include providing a user interface that lists a plurality of secondary computing systems to a client application executing at a client device associated with a user profile of the primary computing system. The method can include, responsive to detecting a selection of a secondary computing system of the plurality of secondary computing systems at the user interface, receiving, from the client device, a network token identifying a permission for accessing a second profile maintained at the secondary computing system. The method can include determining a subset of data records of the second user profile that the primary computing system is permitted to access. The method can include retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing system according to a retrieval policy. The method can include updating the user interface at the client application to present the subset of data records of the second profile.
In some implementations of the computer-readable storage medium, the method can include receiving, from the secondary computing system, authorization to access an application programming interface of the secondary computing system.
At least one aspect of the present disclosure is directed to another method. The method may be performed, for example, by a primary computing system having one or more processors coupled to memory. The method can include receiving, from a client device, a request for an energy profile based on one or more data records maintained by at least one secondary computing system. The request can include at least one network token corresponding to the at least one secondary computing system. The method can include determining that the network token is a valid network token that permits access to the one or more data records maintained by the at least one secondary computing system. The method can include retrieving the one or more data records from the secondary computing system. The method can include generating the energy profile based on the one or more data records retrieved from the secondary computing system. The method can include providing, for presentation at the client device, a user interface that displays information in the energy profile.
In some implementations, each data record of the one or more data records identifies a respective device and comprises a respective energy usage value of the respective device. In some implementations, generating the energy profile is further based on the respective energy usage value of the respective device identified in each of the one or more data records. In some implementations, a data record of the one or more data records identifies a respective activity and a respective activity metric corresponding to a magnitude of the respective activity. In some implementations, generating the energy profile is further based on the respective activity metric of the respective activity identified the data record.
In some implementations, generating the energy profile comprises determining at least one carbon footprint value based on a data record of the one or more data records. In some implementations, retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing device comprises periodically retrieving the one or more data records from the secondary computing device. In some implementations, the method can include receiving, from the secondary computing system, authorization to access an API of the secondary computing system. In some implementations, the one or more data records are retrieved using the API of the secondary computing system. In some implementations, retrieving the one or more data records from the secondary computing device comprises performing a single API call using the API of the secondary computing system.
At least one other aspect of the present disclosure is directed to another system. The system can include a primary computing system having one or more processors coupled to memory. The system can receive, from a client device, a request for an energy profile based on one or more data records maintained by at least one secondary computing system. The request can include at least one network token corresponding to the at least one secondary computing system. The system can determine that the network token is a valid network token that permits access to the one or more data records maintained by the at least one secondary computing system. The system can retrieve the one or more data records from the secondary computing system. The system can generate the energy profile based on the one or more data records retrieved from the secondary computing system. The system can provide, for presentation at the client device, a user interface that displays information in the energy profile.
In some implementations, each data record of the one or more data records identifies a respective device and comprises a respective energy usage value of the respective device. In some implementations, the system can generate the energy profile further based on the respective energy usage value of the respective device identified in each of the one or more data records. In some implementations, a data record of the one or more data records identifies a respective activity and a respective activity metric corresponding to a magnitude of the respective activity. In some implementations, the system can generate the energy profile further based on the respective activity metric of the respective activity identified the data record.
In some implementations, the system can generate the energy profile based on determining at least one carbon footprint value based on a data record of the one or more data records. In some implementations, the system can retrieve the subset of data records from the secondary computing device by periodically retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing device. In some implementations, the system can receive, from the secondary computing system, authorization to access an application programming interface (API) of the secondary computing system. In some implementations, the subset of data records are retrieved using the API of the secondary computing system. In some implementations, the system can retrieve the one or more data records from the secondary computing device by performing a single API call using the API of the secondary computing system.
These and other aspects and implementations are discussed in detail below. The foregoing information and the following detailed description include illustrative examples of various aspects and implementations, and provide an overview or framework for understanding the nature and character of the claimed aspects and implementations. The drawings provide illustration and a further understanding of the various aspects and implementations, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. Aspects can be combined and it will be readily appreciated that features described in the context of one aspect of the invention can be combined with other aspects. Aspects can be implemented in any convenient form. For example, by appropriate computer programs, which may be carried on appropriate carrier media (computer readable media), which may be tangible carrier media (e.g. disks) or intangible carrier media (e.g. communications signals). Aspects may also be implemented using suitable apparatus, which may take the form of programmable computers running computer programs arranged to implement the aspect. As used in the specification and in the claims, the singular form of “a,” “an,” and “the” include plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.
Below are detailed descriptions of various concepts related to, and implementations of, techniques, approaches, methods, apparatuses, and systems for retrieving information from secondary computing systems using network access tokens. The various concepts introduced above and discussed in greater detail below may be implemented in any of numerous ways, as the described concepts are not limited to any particular manner of implementation. Examples of specific implementations and applications are provided primarily for illustrative purposes.
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One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for retrieving information from secondary computing systems using network access tokens. In conventional computing systems that share information, several API function calls are each used to retrieve data that is specific to the API call. This can work generally for small volumes of data for a small number of users. However, this solution becomes impracticable to maintain as the number of users, and the types of information retrieved or shared, increases in volume. Information about the parameters and attributes of each API call, as well as the additional code to organize and update each API call for each secondary computing system, utilizes excessive computational resources and reduces overall available network bandwidth.
One approach to circumvent this complexity is to use one simple API function call to synchronize all data maintained at a secondary computing system. Although this comes with the advantage of easy maintainability and low complexity, the resulting data transfer exposes large volumes of data to potential security breaches. Furthermore, it shifts the responsibility to the retrieving computing system to sift through the large volume of data to identify one or more relevant data entries. The extra retrieved data may be discarded, or stored in the event that it may be useful for other purposes by the requesting computing system. Although this approach may solve some of the above-identified issues, it still suffers from excessive use of networking resources. This problem becomes particularly apparent when frequent updates to the data stored at secondary computing systems are required, across a large number of secondary computing systems.
The systems and methods of this technical solution solve these and other issues by providing network tokens, which may be generated to specify a specific subset of data records or resources at a secondary computing system that a primary computing system is authorized to access. Additionally, the systems and methods the present disclosure provide meta-API calls, which allow for a single API call to be used to request several portions of disparate data maintained at a secondary computing system. By utilizing a single API call for several portions of information, the present techniques reduce the overall utilization of network bandwidth (e.g., by requiring significantly fewer communications between the primary and secondary computing systems) of the system, while maintaining the privacy and security of protected information. These and other improvements are described in greater detail herein below.
In an example use case, a primary computing system can implement the present techniques to generate a network user profile for a user from information gathered from a number of secondary computing systems. Data from the secondary computing systems that make up the network user profile can be accessed by a user via a client application executed on a user device of the user. The user device may be a smart phone, a laptop, or another type of computing system capable of communicating with the primary computing system and the secondary computing systems. The network user profile may include any information from the secondary computing systems that are authorized by the user via the user device. The user device can communicate with the primary computing system and the secondary computing systems to generate network tokens, which can be used by the primary computing system to access and synchronize specific information (authorized by the user) at the secondary computing systems. The primary computing system can synchronize data from the secondary computing systems using one or more network tokens until a network user profile can be generated. The network user profile can be presented in one or more user interfaces at the user device, or utilized in various additional network processing operations as described herein.
Each of the secondary computing systems 102 can include at least one processor and a memory (e.g., a processing circuit). The memory can store processor-executable instructions that, when executed by processor, cause the processor to perform one or more of the operations described herein. The processor may include a microprocessor, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), etc., or combinations thereof. The memory may include, but is not limited to, electronic, optical, magnetic, or any other storage or transmission device capable of providing the processor with program instructions. The memory may further include a floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD, magnetic disk, memory chip, ASIC, FPGA, read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), erasable programmable ROM (EPROM), flash memory, optical media, or any other suitable memory from which the processor can read instructions. The instructions may include code from any suitable computer programming language. The secondary computing systems 102 can include one or more computing devices or servers that can perform various functions as described herein. The secondary computing systems 102 can include any or all of the components and perform any or all of the functions of the computer system 700 described herein in conjunction with
The secondary computing systems 102 may be computing systems of information technology service providers, financial service providers, non-financial service providers, or any other computing system that may maintain information about or relating to one or more users. For example, secondary computing systems 102 of non-financial institutions may be associated with marketing platforms, social media platforms, network environment platforms, network configuration platforms, or user databases, among others. The secondary computing systems 102 may each include one or more network interfaces that facilitate communication with other computing systems of the system 100 via the network 101. In some implementations, one or more of the secondary computing systems may be owned or controlled by a single entity.
The user device 103 can include at least one processor and a memory (e.g., a processing circuit). The memory can store processor-executable instructions that, when executed by processor, cause the processor to perform one or more of the operations described herein. The processor may include a microprocessor, an ASIC, an FPGA, etc., or combinations thereof. The memory may include, but is not limited to, electronic, optical, magnetic, or any other storage or transmission device capable of providing the processor with program instructions. The memory may further include a floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD, magnetic disk, memory chip, ASIC, FPGA, ROM, RAM, EEPROM, EPROM, flash memory, optical media, or any other suitable memory from which the processor can read instructions. The instructions may include code from any suitable computer programming language. The user device 103 can include one or more computing devices or servers that can perform various functions as described herein. The user device 103 can include any or all of the components and perform any or all of the functions of the computer system 700 described herein in conjunction with
Each user device 103 may include one or more mobile and non-mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet computing devices, wearable computing devices (e.g., a smartwatch, smart optical wear, etc.), personal computing devices such as laptops or desktops, voice-activated digital assistance devices (e.g., smart speakers having chat bot capabilities), portable media devices, vehicle information systems, etc., that may access one or more software applications running locally or remotely. The user device 103 may operate as a “thin client” device, which presents user interfaces for applications that execute remotely (e.g., at the primary computing system 104, the secondary computing system(s) 102, etc.). Input from the user received via the thin client may be communicated to the server executing the remote application, which may provide additional information to the user device 103 or execute further operations in response to the user input. In some examples, a user may access any of the computing devices of the system 100 through various user devices 103 at the same time or at different times. For example, the user may access one or more computing systems of the system 100 via a digital assistance device 103 while also accessing one or more computing systems of the system 100 using a wearable computing device 103 (e.g., a smart watch). In other examples, the user may access one or more computing systems of the system 100 via a digital assistance device 103 and later access the system 100 via a vehicle information system 103, via desktop computing system, or a laptop computing system.
The user device 103 can execute a client application 118, which may provide one or more user interfaces and receive user input via one or more input/output (I/O) devices. The client application 118 may be administered by the primary computing system 104 (via, e.g., data exchanged between the client application 118 and the primary computing system 104 through secured communications). In some implementations, the client application 118 may be a web-based application that is retrieved and displayed in a web-browser executing at the primary computing system 104. In some implementations, the client application 118 can execute locally at the user device 103, and may communicate information with the secondary computing systems 102 or the primary computing system 104 via the network 101. The client application 118 may present one or more user interfaces (e.g., such as the user interfaces described in connection with
The primary computing system 104 can include at least one processor and a memory (e.g., a processing circuit). The memory can store processor-executable instructions that, when executed by processor, cause the processor to perform one or more of the operations described herein. The processor may include a microprocessor, an ASIC, an FPGA, etc., or combinations thereof. The memory may include, but is not limited to, electronic, optical, magnetic, or any other storage or transmission device capable of providing the processor with program instructions. The memory may further include a floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD, magnetic disk, memory chip, ASIC, FPGA, ROM, RAM, EEPROM, EPROM, flash memory, optical media, or any other suitable memory from which the processor can read instructions. The instructions may include code from any suitable computer programming language. The primary computing system 104 can include one or more computing devices or servers that can perform various functions as described herein. The primary computing system 104 can include any or all of the components and perform any or all of the functions of the computer system 700 described herein in conjunction with
In some embodiments, the primary computing system 104 may be the computing system of an entity that maintains user profiles (e.g., the primary profiles 124) for a number of different users. The primary computing system 104 can provide information to the client application 118 executing on the user devices 103, such as user interfaces, instructions to carry out one or more functionalities described herein, or other information relating to the user profiles. The user can utilize the client application 118 to communicate with the primary computing system 104, for example, to create, modify, delete, or authorize information in connection with a primary profile 124 associated with the user. In some implementations, the primary computing system 104 can be backend computer system that interacts with the user devices 103 and supports various services offered by the primary computing system 104, such as information technology (IT) services or network management services. The network management services may utilize the information in one or more of the primary profiles 124 to manage information communicated via the network 101.
The primary computing system 104 can maintain, manage, or store primary user profiles 124, for example, in one or more data structures in the memory of or a database managed by the primary computing system 104. Each of the primary user profiles 124 may correspond to a respective user, and may be identified by a corresponding user identifier (e.g., a username, an email address, a passcode, an encryption key, etc.). The primary user profiles 124 can include any information about the user, including personally identifying data (e.g., name and social security number), psychographics data (e.g., personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles), transactional data (e.g., preferred products, purchase history, transaction history), demographic data (e.g., address, age, education), financial data (e.g., income, assets, credit score), or other user or account data that is maintained or otherwise accessible to the primary computing system 104. The primary computing system 104 can receive the primary data 124 or subsets thereof via the client application 118.
The primary user profiles 124 can be stored in association with one or more identifiers of one or more user devices 103. Each of the primary user profiles 124 can be a profile that includes information about a user, and information about one or more of the user devices 103 used to access the primary computing system 104 using the primary user profiles 124. As described herein, identifiers of a primary user profile 124 can be used to access the functionality of the primary computing system 104. The identifiers can include a username, a password, an e-mail address, a phone number, a personal identification number (PIN), a secret code-word, or device identifiers for use in a two-factor authentication technique, among others. The primary user profiles 124 can store information about, and be associated with, retrieved secondary data 126 (which may be retrieved from the secondary computing systems 102, as described herein), and any network tokens 128 with which the primary computing system 104 accesses the secondary computing systems 102.
In some implementations, the primary user profiles 124 can store one or more attributes, which may include a client device identifier of a user device 103 that was used to interact with the primary computing system 104, identifiers of one or more secondary computing systems 102 associated with the primary user profile 124, or information relating to the user, among other information. The primary user profiles 124 can also include historic records of online activity that the user has performed using the corresponding primary user profiles 124, for example, at the primary computing system 104 or via other computing systems or the user device 103. The primary user profiles 124 can store information about a user device 103 used to access the session processing system 205 such as an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a MAC address, a GUID, an user profile name (e.g., the name of a user of the user device 103, etc.), device name, among others. In some implementations, a primary user profile 124 can be created by the primary computing system 104 in response to a primary user profile 124 creation request transmitted by a user device 103. The user profile creation request can include any of the user profile information described herein. The primary user profiles 124 can include information about an account (e.g., a financial account) maintained by an entity associated with the primary computing system 104. The information can include, for example, account balances, transaction histories, or brokerage trading information, among other account data. The attributes of the primary user profiles 124 can include a list or table of secondary account identifiers (e.g., the secondary account data 126) associated with the primary user profile 124.
The retrieved secondary data 126 can be associated with a respective primary user profile 124, and can include information retrieved by the primary computing system 124 from the secondary computing systems 102 utilizing the techniques described herein. In some implementations, the retrieved secondary data 126 may be subsets of information stored as the data records 112A or 112B stored at the secondary computing systems 102. The retrieved secondary data 126 may be associated with one or more network tokens 128, which themselves may be associated with a respective secondary computing system 102. The retrieved secondary data 126 may be periodically updated (e.g., retrieved) by the primary computing system 104 from the corresponding secondary computing system, for example, according to a predetermined schedule. In some implementations, the retrieved secondary data 126 can be retrieved from the secondary computing systems 104 in response to a request received from a user device 103. The primary computing system 104 can provide a subset of, or all of, the retrieved secondary data 126 to the user device 103 for display. In some implementations, information in the retrieved secondary data 126 and information in the primary profiles 124 can be utilized to perform targeted advertising, or to derive insights regarding a financial position of a user. For example, the primary computing system 104 can access transaction information received in the retrieved secondary information 126, for example, to determine income information and spending information over predetermined time periods.
The secondary computing systems 102A and 102B can include databases 106A and 106B, respectively (collectively referred to as “databases 106”), which may store secondary profiles 108A or 108B (sometimes referred to collectively as the “secondary profiles 108” or in the singular as a “singular profile 108”). The secondary profiles 108 may be associated with a corresponding user, and may be similar to the primary user profiles 124, but including information relating to the secondary computing system 102 rather than the primary computing system 104. The secondary profiles 108 can store corresponding data records 112A or 112B (sometimes referred to as the “data record(s) 112”), which can include information about the users associated with the respective secondary profile 108. The user devices 103 can access the respective secondary computing system 102 using the secondary profile 108 of the respective secondary computing system 102, and create, modify, or delete one or more data records 112 associated with the user's secondary profile 108.
The data records 112 may include any information about a user that accesses the secondary computing systems 102, including any information relating to interactions on web documents performed via a user device 103 in communication with the secondary computing system 102, information about online activity performed via the user device 103, or communication metadata (e.g., IP address, lists of device identifiers, etc.) relating to a user when the user communicates with the secondary computing system 102. The data records 112 can include data identifying a user of the secondary computing systems 102. For example, the data records 112 can include personally identifying data (e.g., name and social security number), psychographics data (e.g., personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles), transactional data (e.g., preferred products, purchase history, transaction history), demographic data (e.g., address, age, education), and financial data (e.g., income, assets, credit score), or other user or account data that is maintained or otherwise accessible to one or more secondary computing systems 102.
The secondary computing systems 102 can receive the data records 112 or subsets thereof via communications with the user device 103. For example, an application associated with the secondary computing system 102 may be executed on the user device 103 of the user. The user can utilize the application associated with the secondary computing system 102, which can present one or more user interfaces to receive user input, to communicate one or more data records 112 (or information that the secondary computing system 102 stores as the data records 112) to the secondary computing system 102. The application may utilize a secondary profile 108 of the user to access the secondary computing system 102. The secondary computing system 102 can store the data records 112 in association with an identifier of the user, or an identifier of a secondary profile 108 with which the user accesses the secondary computing system 102. In some implementations, the secondary computing system 102 may update, modify, or create one or more data records based on a service accessed by the user that is provided by an entity associated with the secondary computing system. For example, if the secondary computing system 102 is associated with a finance company, the secondary computing system 102 can update data records 112 in a secondary profile 108 of a user, which correspond to timely payments made by the user. Generally, the secondary profiles 108 may include any information that is included in the primary profile 124.
The secondary profiles 108 may specify one or more permissions 110A or 110B (sometimes referred to as “permission(s) 110”), which can be associated with corresponding data records 112 of a secondary profile 108. The permissions 110 can specify which of the data records 112 may be shared with the primary computing system 104. The permissions 110 can indicate time periods that certain data records 112 can be shared with or retrieved by the primary computing system 104. In some implementations, each of the data records 112 may be associated with default permissions 110, which can indicate that the data records 112 may not be shared with the primary computing system 104. In response to one or more requests received from a user device 103, for example. In some implementations, permissions 110 may be modified according to one or more network tokens 128 generated at the secondary computing system 102 using the techniques described herein.
The network tokens 128 may be generated by the secondary computing systems 102, for example, in response to a request from the client application 118 executing on the user device 103. The network tokens 128 may be encoded with values generated, for example, using a hashing algorithm or an encryption algorithm, which represent a corresponding subset of data records 112 that the primary computing system 104 can access from a respective secondary profile 108. If a user has more than one secondary profile 108 across multiple secondary computing systems 102, the primary computing system can maintain at least one network token 128 for that user for each secondary profile 108 associated with the user. When generated by the secondary computing system 102 in response to a request from a user device 103 of a user, a corresponding permission 110 can be recorded in a secondary profile 108 that indicates corresponding data records 112 that the network token 128 is permitted to access. Generating the network token 128 can include hashing a unique value, for example, a timestamp of the request concatenated with an identifier of the secondary profile 108 (and in some implementations, further concatenated with an additional salt value).
The permissions 110 corresponding to the generated network token 128 can identify the network token 128 (e.g., a predetermined number of least-significant or most-significant bits of the network token 128, which may be stored in association with the respective secondary profile 108) and can identify a subset of the data records 112 of the respective secondary profile 108 that the primary computing system 104 is permitted to access. Additionally, the permissions 110 can be stored in association with access rules for the network token 128, which may include an expiration time (after which the network token 128 is considered invalid, or after which the secondary computing system 102 deletes the corresponding permission 110 preventing the primary computing system 104 from accessing the associated data records 112), a timestamp corresponding to network token 128 creation time, an identifier of the user device 103 that was used to request the network token 128, an identifier of the secondary profile 108 corresponding to the network token 128, a retrieval schedule identifying predetermined time periods during which the primary computing system 104 can access (e.g., update the retrieved secondary data 126) the subset of the data records 112 with the network token 128, or an identifier of the primary computing system 104 that is authorized to access a subset of the data records 112 of the secondary profile 108 using the network token 128, among others.
The secondary computing systems 102 can maintain and provide the communications application programming interfaces (APIs) 114A and 114B (sometimes referred to herein as the “communications API 114”). The communications API 114 can be an API, such as a web-based API corresponding to a particular network address uniform resource identifier (URI), or uniform resource locator (URL), among others. The communications API 114 can be accessed, for example, by one or more of the primary computing system 104 or the user device 103, via the network 101. In some implementations, other secondary computing systems 102 can communicate with a secondary computing system 102 via the communication API 114. The communications API 114 can be a client-based API, a server API (SAPI), or an Internet Server API (ISAPI). Various protocols may be utilized to access the communications API 114, including a representational state transfer (REST) API, a simple object access protocol (SOAP) API, a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) API, or extensions thereof. The communications API 114 may be implemented in part using a network transfer protocol, such as the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), the secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS), the file transfer protocol (FTP), the secure file transfer protocol (FTPS), each of which may be associated with a respective URI or URL.
The primary computing system 104 may store identifiers (e.g., access rules, network locations) corresponding to the communication APIs 114 maintained at each of the secondary computing systems 102. Each secondary computing system 102 can maintain its own access rules and identifiers for their respective communication APIs 114. When changes or updates are made to the communications API 114, corresponding access rule changes or identifiers can be transmitted to the primary computing system 104, to allow the primary computing system 104 to utilize the communication API 114 using the most up-to-date access rules. In some implementations, the primary computing system 104 can periodically (or in response to a request) retrieve the most up-to-date access rules for the communication API 114. Likewise, in some implementations, the secondary computing systems 102 may periodically (or in response to a request) provide the access rules for the communication API 114 to the primary computing system 104. In some implementations, the access rules may be communicated as part of a network token 128.
Calls to the communication API 114 can include additional information that may be specified as part of a “meta-API call,” which allows the primary computing system 104 to retrieve information in batch for particular sets of users. This can allow the primary computing system 104 to reduce overall consumption of network resources when retrieving data records 112 from the secondary computing systems 102. The meta API call may utilize additional metadata associated with the network token 128 (e.g., which may be encrypted or encoded such that only the respective secondary computing system 102 corresponding to the API call can access the additional metadata), which specifies corresponding information that the network token 128 authorizes the primary computing system 104 to access. This enables the primary computing system 104 to make a single, simple API call to the communication API 114 to retrieve only the information authorized for a network token 128 associated with a particular user. To further improve efficiency, the primary computing system 104 can transmit a single batch API call to the communications API 114, which may include a list or single data blob of several network tokens 128 (and any encrypted or encoded metadata associated with the network tokens 128), each corresponding to a respective user.
In response, the secondary computing system 102 can retrieve the information authorized by the network tokens 128 (and any encrypted metadata), which may correspond to data records 112 from several users, and transmit the information to the primary computing system 104 in a single message, or in several streamed messages forming a single response. This enables the primary computing system 104 to intelligently aggregate requests for information from a secondary computing system 102, such that large segments of disparate data from several users can be retrieved in a single API call. This frees up network resources significantly, particularly when the primary computing system 104 must retrieve data associated with several users from several secondary computing systems 102. In effect, this can reduce the number of API calls (and therefore communication sessions) down to just the number of secondary computing systems 102 that the primary computing system 104 must access, rather than performing a single API call on a per-user basis.
The user device 103 can execute the client application 103, which can present one or more user interfaces via a display device. The display device may be an interactive display device, such as a touch screen display (e.g., a capacitive or a resistive touchscreen display, etc.). Additionally, the user device may include additional input/output features, such as buttons (e.g., a keyboard), pointing devices (e.g., a mouse, a touchpad, a remote, a controller, etc.) to enable a user operating the user device 103 to provide input to (and observe output from) from the client application 118. The client application 118 can present one or more actionable objects (e.g., interactive user interface elements) in a user interface of the client application 118 via the display of the user device 103. Such actionable objects can include selectable hyperlinks, buttons, graphics, videos, images, or other application features that generate a signal that is processed by the application executing on the respective user device 103. Examples of interactive user interface elements are described in connection with
In some implementations, one or more user devices 103 can establish one or more communication sessions with the primary computing system 104 or one or more secondary computing systems 102. The one or more communication sessions can each include one or more channels or connections between the one or more user devices 103 and the primary computing system 104 or the secondary computing systems 102. The one or more communication systems can each include an application session (e.g., virtual application), an execution session, a desktop session, a hosted desktop session, a terminal services session, a browser session, a remote desktop session, a URL session and/or a remote application session. Each communication session can include encrypted and/or secure sessions, which can include an encrypted file, encrypted data or traffic.
The client application 118 executing on the user device 103 can communicate via the network 101 to access information resources, such as web pages via a web browser, or application resources via a native application executing on a user device 103. When accessing information resources, the user device 103 can execute instructions (e.g., embedded in the native applications, in the information resources, etc.) that cause the user device 103 to display application interfaces 120. The application interfaces 120 can be, for example, user interfaces that present different types of configuration interfaces for the primary user profiles 124 maintained by the primary computing system 104, such an interface to create a primary user profile 124, an interface to modify a primary user profile 124, an interface to communicate with a secondary computing system 102, or an interface to modify permissions 110 or generate a network token 128, among others. Generally, a user interface and any associated interactive user interface elements can be presented to the user via the client application 118 to perform any of the techniques described herein.
The application interfaces 120 can, in some implementations, cause the user device 103 to communicate with the primary computing system 104. For example, the application 118 can be used to transmit a request to create a primary user profile 124. The request to create a primary user profile 124 can include, for example, login credentials, other identifying information, identifiers of the user device 103, identifiers of one or more user attributes to associate with the primary user profile 124, or any other information related to primary user profiles 124 as described herein. In some implementations, the application interfaces 120 can include an interface to display the retrieved secondary data 126, which may include information from data records 112 that the user has authorized the primary computing system 104 to access. Examples of such application interfaces 120 are displayed in
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At step 305, the method 300 includes providing a user interface (e.g., an application interface 120) that lists one or more secondary computing systems (e.g., a secondary computing system 102) to a client application (e.g., a client application 118) executing at a client device (e.g., the user device 103) associated with a user profile (e.g., the primary user profile 124) of a primary computing system (the primary computing system 104). Providing the user interface (e.g., an application interface 120) can include transmitting instructions to the client application to display one or more interactive user interface elements, such as the user interface elements described in connection with
The list of secondary computing systems can be maintained at the primary computing system, or may be indicated or otherwise identified in a primary user profile of the user. As described herein, the user may utilize a primary user profile at the client device to access the functionality of the primary computing system, for example, by performing a login procedure. The primary computing system can receive the login credentials (e.g., username, password, code word, encryption key, etc.) from the client application, and validate the information to identify a user profile. When accessing the client application, the user can select a user interface element to request a list of secondary computing systems. Upon receiving the request, the primary computing system can identify one or more of the secondary computing systems to present to the user in a list. For example, the primary computing system can access a list of secondary computing systems identified in the primary user profile. In some implementations, the primary computing system may access a predetermined list of secondary computing systems. Upon identifying the list of secondary computing systems, the primary computing system can transmit instructions to the client application, which can include a list of identifiers of the secondary computing systems, to display the list in an application interface.
At step 310, the method 300 includes, receiving, from the client device, responsive to detecting a selection of a secondary computing system at the user interface, a network token (e.g., the network token 128) identifying a permission for accessing a second profile maintained at the secondary computing system. When the client application receives the list of secondary computing systems from the primary computing system, the user can select a corresponding user interface element associated with a secondary computing system (e.g., as described above in connection with
The login interface can include one or more fields or user interface elements that accept login information (or allow the user to select a surrogate for login information, such as biometric information, a unique encryption key, two-factor authentication, or any other type of login procedure or combination of procedures, etc.). The client application can accept the login information, which can include an identifier of a secondary profile (e.g., a secondary profile 108) maintained at the secondary computing system, and transmit the login information to the secondary computing system. The secondary computing system can then authenticate the login information by performing an authentication procedure (e.g., identifying the secondary profile based on the identifier in the login information comparing the hash of a password to a stored password hash of the secondary profile, comparing other login information with corresponding login information in the secondary profile to detect a match, etc.). If the login information corresponds to the identified secondary profile, the secondary computing system can transmit a message to the client device indicating that the user has been authenticated to access the secondary computing system using the secondary profile. Otherwise, the secondary computing system can transmit an error message that indicates that the authentication procedure failed, which may provide a further prompt to re-enter the login credentials.
Upon authenticating the login credentials for the secondary profile, the secondary computing system can identify one or more data records (e.g., the data records 112) associated with the secondary profile. The data records can include any type of information associated with the user identified by the secondary profile. For example, the data records can include personally identifying data (e.g., name and social security number), psychographics data (e.g., personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles), transactional data (e.g., preferred products, purchase history, transaction history), demographic data (e.g., address, age, education), and financial data (e.g., income, assets, credit score), or other user or account data that is maintained or otherwise accessible to one or more secondary computing systems. The data records can include account information, including payment schedules, account balances, outstanding balances, late payments, overdue payments, transaction histories, records of received payments, or credit limits, among others. Energy consumption information may be reflected, or partially reflected, in the one or more data records. For example, the data records may indicate an amount of energy spent corresponding to one or more transactions, or items owned or purchased by the user, may be included in the data records.
Information about services provided by an entity associated with the secondary computing system can also be indicated in one or more data records. For example, the service information may indicate an amount of bandwidth used (e.g., over a predetermined time period, such as a daily, monthly, or yearly, etc.) as part of an internet service plan (e.g., in the aggregate or on a per-device basis), as part of a cell phone plan (e.g., in the aggregate or on a per-device basis), or another type of data plan. The energy usage information may indicate an estimated value for an amount of power used corresponding to each transaction in a transaction history indicated in the secondary profile. Additionally, the energy usage information can include aggregate statistics, including estimated power usage (e.g., kilowatt-hours, etc.) for a subscription plan (e.g., a streaming video plan, an energy plan, a cell phone data plan, etc.) over a predetermined time period. These values can also be stored in association with a corresponding carbon footprint value, which is also included in one or more data records. The energy usage information may also be included on a per-device basis (e.g., based on screen time or device usage over a predetermined time period, etc.), for usage of electric appliances or electric vehicles, or equivalent energy consumption (and carbon footprint impact) for non-electric appliances or vehicles. The energy consumption information may be stored or otherwise maintained in the data records in both a discrete (e.g., usage-by-usage) basis, and in the aggregate (e.g., groups of devices, services, individually or in combination, over predetermined or user-selectable time periods).
The secondary computing system can then transmit instructions to the client application executing on the client device to present a list of identifiers of data records, each displayed with a corresponding interactive user interface element that indicates whether the respective data record is authorized to be shared with the primary computing system. An example of such an interface is shown in
The secondary computing system can update permissions (e.g., the permissions 110 associated with the respective secondary profile) with the selections indicated in the request. Therefore, the permissions can indicate the subset of the data records the user has authorized the primary computing system to access, and the access rules under which the primary computing system can access the subset. In response to the request, the secondary computing system can generate and transmit the network token to the user device (or to the primary computing system). The generated network token can include the encrypted or encoded metadata that indicates the subset of the data records indicated in one or more permissions (e.g., the permissions 110 associated with the corresponding secondary profile 108), which correspond to the user selections in
The secondary computing system can generate the network token using one or more encryption techniques. For example, the secondary computing system can utilize a hashing algorithm (e.g., CRC-16, CRC-32, SHA-1, SHA-2, MD5, etc.) or an encryption algorithm (e.g., AES, DES, RSA, etc.) to generate the network token. Generating the network token can include hashing a unique value, such as a timestamp of the request concatenated with an identifier of the secondary profile and/or an identifier of the primary computing system (and in some implementations, further concatenated with an additional salt value). The network token can be generated to include additional encrypted or encoded metadata. For example, after generating the network token using the hash or encryption algorithm, additional metadata (e.g., the permissions indicated by the user in the request) can be encrypted and concatenated with the generated network token. In some implementations, generating the network token itself can include encrypting the permissions selected by the user for the request.
The encryption used for the metadata included in the network token may be symmetric encryption or asymmetric encryption, such that only the secondary computing system can decode or decrypt the encrypted permissions in the network token. For example, the secondary computing system can maintain a private key corresponding to the network token that can be used to decrypt the information included in the network token using a suitable decryption algorithm.
Upon generating the network token, the secondary computing system can transmit the network token to the client device, which can then forward or otherwise provide the network token to the primary computing system. In some implementations, the secondary computing system can transmit the network token directly to the primary computing system without transmitting the network token to the user device. In some implementations, the secondary computing device can generate a secondary decryption key for the network token, which can be used to decrypt a portion of the metadata associated with the network token. For example, information about the expiration date or the access rules for the network token may be encrypted using a secondary key which may also be shared with the primary computing system. This can allow the primary computing to determine whether the network token is still valid, or during what time periods the network token can be used to retrieve information. This provides a benefit to network utilization, as other solutions may require the primary computing system to request validity from the secondary computing system, and therefore require a separate request that may not be authorized by the access rules. In some implementations, the metadata indicating the access rules for the network token (e.g., the expiration date, access schedule, etc.) may be unencrypted and transmitted to the primary computing device with the encrypted network token.
At step 315, the method 300 includes determining that the network token is a valid network token. Upon receiving the network token, the primary computing system can begin attempting to retrieve information from one or more secondary computing systems utilizing the network token. To determine whether information can be retrieved using the network token, the primary computing system can access the metadata associated with the network token (e.g., which may be transmitted to the primary computing system as part of the network token, either as unencrypted data or as data encrypted with a secondary encryption key shared with the primary computing system) that indicates the access rules or expiration date. If current time exceeds the expiration date of the network token, the primary computing system can provide a prompt to the client application indicating that the network token has expired. This can include prompting the user and returning to step 305 of the method 300 to present a list of the secondary computing systems to the user, to allow the user to request a new network token for the secondary computing system.
The primary computing system can further parse the network token to identify an access schedule for the subset of data records stored at the secondary computing device (e.g., which can indicate predetermined time periods that the primary computing system is authorized to access the subset of the data records at the secondary computing system). The primary computing system can compare the current time to the authorized time periods in the access schedule, and if the access schedule indicates the primary computing system is authorized to access the subset, the primary computing system can execute step 320 of the method 300. Otherwise, the primary computing system can wait until the current time falls within an authorized time period indicated in the access rules. In some implementations, the network token can be provided with default access rules, which indicate that the primary computing system can always access the subset of data records. In this case, the primary computing system can simply execute step 320 of the method 300 to retrieve the subset.
At step 320, the method 300 includes retrieving the subset of data records from the secondary computing system according to a retrieval policy (e.g., the access rules). To do so, the primary computing system can transmit a request for data records to the secondary computing system that includes the network token. The primary computing system can transmit the request to a URI or a URL associated with a communication API (e.g., the communication API 114) of the secondary computing system. In some implementations, prior to transmitting the request, the primary computing system can transmit a request to access the communication API. Accessing the communication API may include, for example, a subscription by the primary computing system or other types of prior authorization by the secondary computing system. In response to the request, the secondary computing system can transmit authorization to access the communication API to the primary computing system. The authorization can include, for example, the URI or URL of the communication API, and may also include an access key, a password, or access token that corresponds to the primary computing system that authorizes the primary computing system to access the communication API.
Once the primary computing system is authorized to access the communication API of the secondary computing system (which may only need to occur once for a predetermined time period), the primary computing system can transmit a request for data records to the URL or URI of the communication API of the secondary computing system, which may be referred to herein as an “API call.” The API call includes the network token and any additional encrypted or encoded metadata that indicates which of the data records the primary computing system is authorized to access. This additional metadata (sometimes referred to herein as “parameters”) can be encrypted at the secondary computing system such that only the secondary computing system can decrypt and access the contents of the metadata (e.g., the list of identifiers, etc.). This enables the primary computing system to make a single, simple API call to the communication API to retrieve only the information authorized by the network token associated with a user. The primary computing system can further improve by transmitting a single batch API call to the communications API, which may include a list or single data blob of several network tokens (and any encrypted or encoded metadata associated with each network tokens). Each of the network tokens in the list can correspond to a respective client device or primary user profile.
If the access rules specified as part of the network token indicate that the data records of the secondary computing system be retrieved periodically, the primary computing system can periodically retrieve the subset of data records from the secondary computing device. Upon receiving the API call (and the network token including encrypted metadata), the secondary computing system can decrypt or decode the encrypted metadata, which then indicates the subset of the data records of a secondary profile that the primary profile is authorized to access. The secondary computing system can then transmit the identified subset of the data records to the primary computing system in a single message, or in several streamed messages forming a single response.
This enables the primary computing system to intelligently aggregate requests for information from a secondary computing system, such that large segments of disparate data from several users can be retrieved in a single API call. This frees up network resources significantly, particularly when the primary computing system must retrieve data associated with several users from several secondary computing systems. If the request is a batch request including several network tokens corresponding to several primary user profiles, the secondary computing system can perform similar operations, and transmit the data records accessed for the several network tokens to the primary computing system in a single message, or in several streamed messages forming a single response as described above. The primary computing system can receive the subset of the data records (or several subsets in the case of a batch request), and stores the information in association with the primary user profile corresponding to the user that requested the network token. Each subset of data records can be stored as retrieved secondary data (e.g., the retrieved secondary data 126) in association with the respective primary user profile.
At step 325, the method 300 includes updating the user interface at the client application to present the subset of data records of the second profile. The client application can communicate with the primary computing system to populate application interfaces with information stored as part of the primary user profile. This information can include the retrieved secondary information that was retrieved from the secondary computing systems in prior method steps. The primary computing system can transmit display instructions to the client application, which cause the client application to display portions of, or all of, the retrieved secondary data in the user interface of the client application. In some implementations, the primary computing system may periodically retrieve additional data records from the secondary computing system on a frequent basis, and update the user interface of the client application in real-time or near real-time as the updated data records are retrieved. If the newly retrieved data records are updated versions of previously stored data records, the primary computing system can replace the previously stored data records with the updated versions. Likewise, in some implementations, the primary computing system can store historical records of the retrieved data, with each retrieved data record stored in association with a timestamp identifying the time of its retrieval.
Using the techniques described herein, the primary computing system can retrieve several different types of data records about a user, and store such information in association with a user profile. This additional information can be utilized by the primary computing system to perform a variety of use cases. For example, once the primary computing system retrieves a predetermined amount of financial information about a user, the primary computing system can calculate a confidence score that indicates the level of confidence that the primary computing system maintains the user's general overall financial information. This confidence score can be calculated, for example, by comparing the number of accounts for which the primary computing system can retrieve information when compared to the accounts reported on a user's credit report.
If the primary computing system can access data records relating to each of the accounts listed on the credit report, the primary computing system can calculate a high confidence level that the user's general overall financial information is maintained at the primary computing system. In contrast, if a credit report of the user is unavailable as part of the user's primary user profile or as part of the retrieved secondary data, or if the credit report indicates several financial accounts that the primary computing system is not authorized to access, the primary computing system can calculate a relatively low score for the user. Calculating the score may be based on a weighted sum of several factors, where the weight values are predetermined values or are calculated based on a predetermined ruleset. The number of financial accounts for which the primary computing system maintains information relative to the number of financial accounts reported in the user's credit report can be one factor. Other factors may include, for example, whether the primary computing system can access transaction histories for one or more financial accounts, whether the primary computing system can access information relating to recurring bills, such as energy, gas, or Internet service provider bills, a number of data records maintained at the primary computing system that cover a period of time, among other factors.
The primary computing system can calculate the confidence score for a primary user profile each time data records are retrieved from one or more secondary computing systems. Upon determining that the confidence score is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the primary computing system can utilize the financial information in the primary user profile and the retrieved secondary data to provide recommendations for retirement products, personal loans, home equity loans, or other financial products. To do so, the primary computing system can determine an amount of available cash flow over time that the user has access to over prospective future pay periods by parsing the data records for deposits and withdrawals to the user's financial accounts. The primary computing system can select loans to recommend to the user that have monthly, semimonthly, or periodic payments that fall within the user's available periodic cash flow. These recommendations can be displayed in application interfaces at the client device, such as the application interface depicted in
The primary computing system can also predict when the user may need a loan. For example, the primary computing system can monitor data records relating to credit transactions, and detect when large purchases are made on credit for which there is insufficient funds in other financial accounts used to pay the outstanding balance, and recommend a corresponding loan or financing option to the user via a notification or another application interface. The primary computing system can monitor available cash flow for the user and also monitor upcoming expenses or bills that are due, and recommend a loan to cover a difference between the two, if needed. It will be appreciated that these are simply example use cases, and that the primary computing system may utilize the techniques described herein to provide additional services, product recommendations, or other financing options based on any type of data record retrieved by the primary computing system.
B. Systems and Methods for Generating Environmental Profiles Based on Information Retrieved Using Network Access Tokens
Additional use cases for the techniques described in Section A include the generation of environmental profiles based on information retrieved using network access tokens. As described herein above, conventional computing systems that share information utilize several API function calls that are each used to retrieve data that is specific to the API call. Although this may be suitable for small volumes of data for a small number of users, such a solution becomes impracticable to maintain as the number of users, and the types of information retrieved or shared, increases in volume. Information about the parameters and attributes of each API call, as well as the additional code to organize and update each API call for each secondary computing system, utilizes excessive computational resources and reduces overall available network bandwidth.
These difficulties compound when operating with data that is updated frequently or even continuously, such as information relating to an amount of energy consumed by a device. This information may be useful for generating environmental profiles for various users or organizations. Accurate environmental profiles are important to generate, because they can expose drastic inefficiencies in day-to-day operations (e.g., excessive power consumption, etc.) that would otherwise be unmonitored or unnoticed. The accurate environmental profiles described herein rely on up-to-date information from several disparate computing systems. However, simply sharing this information using conventional information transmission or information sharing techniques results in exhausted bandwidth and excessive use of computational resources. Generating accurate environmental profiles becomes impracticable to maintain when the number of devices being monitored, and the number of users or organizations being monitored, increases in magnitude.
In an example use case, a primary computing system can implement the present techniques to generate an environmental profile for a user from information gathered from a number of secondary computing systems. Energy consumption data from the secondary computing systems that make up the environmental profile can be accessed by a user via a client application executed on a user device of the user. The user device may be a smart phone, a laptop, or another type of computing system capable of communicating with the primary computing system and the secondary computing systems. The environmental profile may include any information from the secondary computing systems that are authorized by the user via the user device. The user device can communicate with the primary computing system and the secondary computing systems to generate network tokens, which can be used by the primary computing system to access and synchronize specific information (authorized by the user) at the secondary computing systems. The primary computing system can synchronize energy consumption data from the secondary computing systems using one or more network tokens to update the environmental profile for the user. Additionally, the primary user profile can generate additional metrics, such as carbon footprint or energy consumption metrics, based on records of activity stored retrieved from the secondary computing systems. The environmental profile can be presented in one or more user interfaces at the user device, or utilized in various additional processing operations as described herein.
Each energy consuming device 405 can include at least one processor and a memory (e.g., a processing circuit). The memory can store processor-executable instructions that, when executed by processor, cause the processor to perform one or more of the operations described herein. The processor may include a microprocessor, an ASIC, an FPGA, etc., or combinations thereof. The memory may include, but is not limited to, electronic, optical, magnetic, or any other storage or transmission device capable of providing the processor with program instructions. The memory may further include a floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD, magnetic disk, memory chip, ASIC, FPGA, ROM, RAM, EEPROM, EPROM, flash memory, optical media, or any other suitable memory from which the processor can read instructions. The instructions may include code from any suitable computer programming language. Each energy consuming device 405 can include any or all of the components and perform any or all of the functions of the computer system 700 described herein in conjunction with
The energy consuming devices 405 can be any type of device that is capable of consuming energy, and providing records or data relating to an amount of energy consumed by the device to another computing system. In some implementations, the energy consuming devices 405 may be “smart” devices, or network-enabled devices, which can communicate energy usage information to one or more corresponding secondary computing systems 102 via the network 102. In some implementations, one or more energy consuming devices 405 can be communicatively coupled to the secondary computing system 102 and can transmit indications of energy consumption through a communications interface other than the network 101. The energy consuming devices 405 can be an energy reporting device, which is a network-enabled device that can monitor and report energy consumption from conventional “dumb” devices that would otherwise be unable to monitor their energy consumption or report the energy consumption information to another computing device. For example, the energy consuming devices 405 can be a smart plug or a smart surge protector device. The energy consuming devices 405 may include an electric vehicle, an electric appliance, or any other type of device capable of utilizing energy. In some implementations, the energy consuming devices 405 may be devices that report activity, such as indications of driving activity from a non-electric vehicle, indications of flights undertaken by an airplane, or other types of non-electrical energy consuming activities that have an impact on the environment.
The energy consuming devices 405 can report any type of energy consuming information, or information relating to energy-consuming activity, to one or more secondary computing systems 102 that are associated with the energy consuming devices 405. In some implementations, the secondary computing system 102 can communicate with multiple energy consuming devices 405, and can record energy consumption information received from each energy consuming device 405 in one or more data records 112 of a secondary profile 108 associated with a user (or owner) of the energy consuming device 405. For example, each energy consuming device 405 can transmit an identifier of a secondary profile 108 (which may be preconfigured by a user) to the secondary computing system 102, such that the secondary computing system can properly store energy consumption information in the secondary profile 108 for that user.
The data records 112 indicating energy consumption information can be updated or created by the secondary computing system 102 in response to receiving a message from an energy consuming device 405. The messages can include energy consumption information, which can indicate an amount of energy (e.g., watts, kilowatt-hours, voltage, current, other electric or energy-related operating characteristics, etc.) of the energy consuming device 405. Each energy consuming device can include a voltage monitoring device, a current monitoring device, or a power monitoring device, which can monitor the amount of power consumed by the energy consuming device 405 (or in the case where the energy consuming device is a smart plug or a smart power strip, the energy consuming device 405 can monitor power from an external “dumb” device electrically coupled to the energy consuming device 405).
The power values monitored by the energy consuming devices 405 can be recorded locally in a memory of the energy consuming device. Then, the locally recorded values can be transmitted to the secondary computing system 102 associated with the energy consuming device 405, for example, when the local memory is full or reaches a predetermined storage level. The local recording of the data may be deleted upon transmission to the secondary computing system 102 to make space for newly monitored power values. The power consumption of the energy consuming device can be monitored on a periodic basis. In some implementations, the energy consuming device 405 can periodically transmit energy consumption data to the secondary computing system 102, or in response to a synchronization request from the secondary computing system 102.
The secondary computing system 102 can receive the messages including the power consumption information from the energy consuming devices 405, and store the power consumption information in one or more data records 112 in the secondary profile 108. The data records 112 indicating the power consumption information may be indexed on a per-device or a per-user basis. In some implementations, the secondary computing system 102 can receive indications of online activity or offline activity from other computing systems via the network 101. For example, the secondary computing systems 102 may receive an indication that a user associated with a secondary profile 108 has taken a flight, and record the characteristics of the flight in one or more data records 112. The indication may be, for example, a transaction record of the flight, and the flight can indicate a duration of the flight, take-off and landing locations, or layover information. Additionally, information relating to online activities, such as purchases, interactions, or view of web pages can be stored in one or more data records 112 of a secondary profile associated with the user performing the online activities. The information in the data records 112 can be utilized by the primary computing system 104 to generate an environmental profile 410, as described herein in connection with
The primary computing system 104 can provide one or more application interfaces 120 to a user device 103, as described in connection with Section A. In addition to providing application interfaces 120 showing the retrieved secondary data 126 as described in connection with
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Upon detecting an interaction with the notification, the client application 118 can navigate to another application interface that provides information about generating environmental profiles, which can include an interactive user interface element that allows the user to request generation of an environmental profile 410. An example of such an application interface is shown in
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Network tokens 128 for additional sources of energy consumption data (e.g., additional secondary computing systems 102) can be generated in response to requests from the user device 103. Referring to
Upon retrieving the data records 112 and generating the environmental profile 410 for the user, the primary computing system 104 can provide one or more recommendations to the user via an application interface 120. Referring to
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At step 605, the method 600 includes receiving, from a client device (e.g., the user device 103), a request for an energy profile (e.g., the environmental profile 410) generated based on one or more data records (e.g., the data records 112) maintained by at least one secondary computing system (e.g., the secondary computing system 102). The request can include at least one network token 128 corresponding to the at least one secondary computing system, which may be generated using the techniques described in connection with Section A. The request can be transmitted in response to a selection of an interactive user interface element at an application interface, such as the application interface 500B described in connection with
The client application executing on the client device can be a web-based or native application that communicates with the primary computing system. The application interfaces provided by the primary computing system can be displayed in the client application, for example, in an application frame. In some implementations, the primary computing system can provide a list of secondary computing systems from which the data records can be accessed, as described herein above in connection with Section A. To access the features of the primary computing system, and prior to transmitting the request, the client application can login to the primary computing system via one or more authentication or login interfaces.
Prior to requesting the environmental profile, the client device can request one or more network tokens from one or more secondary computing systems at which the user has one or more secondary accounts (e.g., the secondary profiles 108). The secondary computing systems can generate the network tokens as described in connection with Section A, and provide the network tokens to the client device, which can store the tokens in local memory. The client device can then transmit the network tokens to the primary computing system separately, as they are provided to the client device, or as part of the request for the environmental profile. As described herein, the primary computing system can utilize the network tokens to access information at the secondary computing systems stored in the data records associated with the user's secondary profiles.
At step 610, the method 500 includes determining that the network token is a valid network token that permits access to the one or more data records maintained by the at least one secondary computing system. Upon receiving the network token, the primary computing system can begin attempting to retrieve information from one or more secondary computing systems utilizing the network token. To determine whether information can be retrieved using the network token, the primary computing system can access metadata associated with the network token (e.g., which may be transmitted to the primary computing system as part of the network token, either as unencrypted data or as data encrypted with a secondary encryption key shared with the primary computing system) that indicates the access rules or expiration date. If current time exceeds the expiration date of the network token, the primary computing system can provide a prompt to the client application indicating that the network token has expired. This can include prompting the user to request a new network token for the associated secondary computing system. In some implementations, the primary computing system can transmit instructions to the client application to present a list of secondary computing systems to the user, to allow the user to request a new network token for one or more secondary computing systems.
The primary computing system can further parse the network token to identify an access schedule for one or more of the data records stored at the secondary computing system (e.g., which can indicate predetermined time periods that the primary computing system is authorized to access the subset of the data records at the secondary computing system). The primary computing system can compare the current time to the authorized time periods in the access schedule, and if the access schedule indicates the primary computing system is authorized to access the data records, the primary computing system can execute step 615 of the method 600. Otherwise, the primary computing system can wait until the current time falls within an authorized time period indicated in the access rules. In some implementations, the network token can be provided with default access rules, which indicate that the primary computing system can always access the data records. In this case, the primary computing system can simply execute step 615 of the method 300 to retrieve one or more of the data records relating to the energy consumption data.
At step 615, the method 600 includes retrieving the one or more data records from the secondary computing system using the network token. To do so, the primary computing system can transmit a request for data records to the secondary computing system that includes the network token. The primary computing system can transmit the request to a URI or a URL associated with a communication API (e.g., the communication API 114) of the secondary computing system. In some implementations, prior to transmitting the request, the primary computing system can transmit a request to access the communication API. Accessing the communication API may include, for example, a subscription by the primary computing system or other types of prior authorization by the secondary computing system. In response to the request, the secondary computing system can transmit authorization to access the communication API to the primary computing system. The authorization can include, for example, the URI or URL of the communication API, and may also include an access key, a password, or access token that corresponds to the primary computing system that authorizes the primary computing system to access the communication API.
Once the primary computing system is authorized to access the communication API of the secondary computing system (which may only need to occur once for a predetermined time period), the primary computing system can transmit a request for data records to the URL or URI of the communication API of the secondary computing system as part of an API call. The API call includes the network token and any additional encrypted or encoded metadata that indicates which of the data records the primary computing system is authorized to access. This additional metadata (sometimes referred to herein as “parameters”) can be encrypted at the secondary computing system such that only the secondary computing system can decrypt and access the contents of the metadata (e.g., the list of identifiers, etc.). This enables the primary computing system to make a single, simple API call to the communication API to retrieve only the information authorized by the network token associated with a user. The primary computing system can further improve by transmitting a single batch API call to the communications API, which may include a list or single data blob of several network tokens (and any encrypted or encoded metadata associated with each network tokens). Each of the network tokens in the list can correspond to a respective client device or primary user profile.
If the access rules specified as part of the network token indicate that the data records of the secondary computing system be retrieved periodically, the primary computing system can periodically retrieve the subset of data records from the secondary computing device. Upon receiving the API call (and the network token including encrypted metadata), the secondary computing system can decrypt or decode the encrypted metadata, which then indicates the subset of the data records of a secondary profile that the primary profile is authorized to access. The secondary computing system can then transmit the identified subset of the data records to the primary computing system in a single message, or in several streamed messages forming a single response.
One or more of the data records in the secondary profiles maintained at the secondary computing systems can identify a respective device (e.g., an energy consuming device 405) and a respective energy usage value for that device. The energy usage value can be stored in association with a respective identifier of the energy consuming device, and timestamps corresponding to the time period to which the power consumption value corresponds. The power consumption values can be any type of information that indicates an amount of power consumed (e.g., watts, kilowatt-hours, voltage, current, etc.). In some implementations, the energy data in the data record may be raw voltage, current, or wattage values, and a kilowatt-hour or other power-time value can be calculated by the primary computing system using the raw voltage, current, or wattage values and the timestamp. Additionally, one or more of the data records can identify online or offline activity performed by the user while utilizing the user's secondary profile. Such data records can include an activity metric, which can correspond to a magnitude (e.g., an amount of environmental impact) corresponding to that activity.
Data records indicating such activities can include transaction records, records of taxi rides, driving records, or other offline activities that have an environmental impact. In some implementations, offline activities are identified in a transaction record stored in a data record at the secondary computing system. Additionally, information relating to online activities, such as purchases, interactions, or view of web pages can be stored in one or more data records of the secondary profile associated with the user. Although the processes described herein have been described as retrieving records from a single secondary computing system, it should be understood that the primary computing system can retrieve data records from several secondary computing systems, each of which may maintain different data records corresponding to different energy consuming devices, offline activities, or online activities. The primary computing system can access these data records, for example, in response to one or more requests from the user device 103 to generate or update an environmental profile.
At step 620, the method 600 includes generating the energy profile (e.g., the environmental profile 410, sometimes referred to herein as an “environmental profile”) based on the one or more data records retrieved from the secondary computing system. The environmental profile can be generated by parsing the energy consumption records in each data record accessed from the secondary computing systems. The primary computing system can calculate overall energy consumption for all energy consuming devices over several predetermined time periods, for example, on a daily basis, a weekly basis, a monthly basis, or a yearly basis, among others. The primary computing system can store the overall energy consumption for each of these time periods as part of the environmental profile. Additionally, for each time period, the primary computing system can store corresponding contribution values for each energy consuming device over that time period (e.g., by adding up the energy consumed by that device over the respective time period, as indicated in the time stamps in the data records). The primary computing system can store this information indexed by the device identifier, the time period, or a combination of the device identifier and the time period, as part of the environmental profile.
The primary computing system can also estimate a corresponding energy consumption values for different offline or online activities for which an actual energy consumption value is unavailable. Some examples of such activities can include traveling (indications of which may be extracted from one or more transaction records). The primary computing system can calculate the estimated energy consumption for the offline activity, for example, using one or more lookup tables or estimation algorithms. For travel, the estimation can be calculated based on the mode of travel (e.g., flying, boat, train, car, public transport, etc.), the distance traveled, and the amount of time it took to travel the distance, among others. Additionally, the primary computing system can estimate an energy consumption value for items that are purchased. For example, the primary computing system can maintain a database or lookup table for products, which are stored in association with an estimated energy consumption value that reflects the amount of energy used to produce the product. The primary computing system can parse the data records to extract one or more transaction records for goods or services, and can perform a lookup in the table to extract an amount of energy consumed by producing the good or service. The magnitude or activity metric of the purchase can correspond to the amount spent on the purchase, the amount spent on the service, or a number of items purchased, among others.
The primary computing system can determine at least one carbon footprint value based on one or more data records of the one or more data records, as part of the environmental profile. In addition to determining the amount of the transaction, the primary computing system can estimate an overall carbon footprint for each energy consuming device, online activity, or offline activity, for each time period in the environmental profile. To estimate the carbon footprint, the primary computing system may utilize a carbon footprint estimation algorithm. The algorithm may utilize, for example, the calculated energy consumption value, a location of the user, or information relating the source of power for each of the energy consuming devices or activities.
For flights or other travel, the primary computing system may utilize predetermined or maintained information in a lookup table indexed by the model of travel. For each mode of travel, the carbon footprint can generally scale with the distance or time of the trip. For the energy consuming devices, the primary computing system can identify a source of power for each energy consuming device, and access a corresponding factor (e.g., a translation factor) by which to multiple the energy consumption value for that energy consuming device to calculate the carbon footprint value. Lookup tables may also be used. Similar techniques (e.g., lookup tables, translation factors, etc.) may also be used to calculate the carbon footprint value for offline and online activities. Once calculated, the primary computing system can store the carbon footprint values in the aggregate for each time period, and also indexed by each device or activity. This allows the primary computing system to present the energy consumption values and the carbon footprint values to the user on a per-time period, a per-device, or a per-activity basis.
At step 625, the method 600 can include providing, by the primary computing system for presentation at the client device, a user interface that displays information in the energy profile. The client application can communicate with the primary computing system to populate application interfaces with the information retrieved and used to generate the environmental profile. In response, the primary computing system can transmit display instructions to the client application, which cause the client application to display requested portions of, or all of, the environmental profile in the user interface of the client application. In some implementations, the primary computing system may periodically retrieve additional data records from the secondary computing system on a frequent basis, and update the environmental profile accordingly using the techniques described herein. Upon doing so, the primary computing system can update the user interface of the client application in real-time or near real-time as the environmental profile is updated. The user can interact with the client application to access energy consumption values or other values on a per-device, per-activity, or per-time period basis, for example, by sending corresponding requests to the primary computing system. In response, the primary computing system can transmit the requested information to the client application for display.
Using the techniques described herein, the primary computing system can retrieve several different types of data records about a user, and utilize these data records to generate an environmental profile for a user. Upon generating a environmental profile that covers a predetermined period of time (e.g., one year, etc.), the primary computing system can utilize the carbon footprint information or the energy consumption information in the environmental profile to provide recommendations for contributions that offset the emissions produced by the user. To do so, the primary computing system can identify the amount of carbon emissions produced by the user's devices or activities over a predetermined time period (e.g., one year). The primary computing system can then select carbon footprint offset offers that can offset the weekly, monthly, or yearly carbon emissions produced by the user. These recommendations can be displayed in application interfaces at the client device, such as the application interface depicted in
C. Systems and Methods for Generating Environmental Profiles Based on Information Retrieved Using Network Access Tokens
The computing system 700 includes a bus 702 or other communication component for communicating information and a processor 704 coupled to the bus 702 for processing information. The computing system 700 also includes main memory 706, such as a random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device, coupled to the bus 702 for storing information, and instructions to be executed by the processor 704. Main memory 706 can also be used for storing position information, temporary variables, or other intermediate information during execution of instructions by the processor 704. The computing system 700 may further include a read only memory (ROM) 708 or other static storage device coupled to the bus 702 for storing static information and instructions for the processor 704. A storage device 710, such as a solid state device, magnetic disk, or optical disk, is coupled to the bus 702 for persistently storing information and instructions.
The computing system 700 may be coupled via the bus 702 to a display 714, such as a liquid crystal display, or active matrix display, for displaying information to a user. An input device 712, such as a keyboard including alphanumeric and other keys, may be coupled to the bus 702 for communicating information, and command selections to the processor 704. In another implementation, the input device 712 has a touch screen display. The input device 712 can include any type of biometric sensor, a cursor control, such as a mouse, a trackball, or cursor direction keys, for communicating direction information and command selections to the processor 704 and for controlling cursor movement on the display 714.
In some implementations, the computing system 700 may include a communications adapter 716, such as a networking adapter. Communications adapter 716 may be coupled to bus 702 and may be configured to enable communications with a computing or communications network 101 and/or other computing systems. In various illustrative implementations, any type of networking configuration may be achieved using communications adapter 716, such as wired (e.g., via Ethernet), wireless (e.g., via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth), satellite (e.g., via GPS) pre-configured, ad-hoc, LAN, WAN, and the like.
According to various implementations, the processes that effectuate illustrative implementations that are described herein can be achieved by the computing system 700 in response to the processor 704 executing an implementation of instructions contained in main memory 706. Such instructions can be read into main memory 706 from another computer-readable medium, such as the storage device 710. Execution of the implementation of instructions contained in main memory 706 causes the computing system 700 to perform the illustrative processes described herein. One or more processors in a multi-processing implementation may also be employed to execute the instructions contained in main memory 706. In alternative implementations, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement illustrative implementations. Thus, implementations are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.
The implementations described herein have been described with reference to drawings. The drawings illustrate certain details of specific implementations that implement the systems, methods, and programs described herein. However, describing the implementations with drawings should not be construed as imposing on the disclosure any limitations that may be present in the drawings.
It should be understood that no claim element herein is to be construed under the provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 112(f), unless the element is expressly recited using the phrase “means for.”
As used herein, the term “circuit” may include hardware structured to execute the functions described herein. In some implementations, each respective “circuit” may include machine-readable media for configuring the hardware to execute the functions described herein. The circuit may be embodied as one or more circuitry components including, but not limited to, processing circuitry, network interfaces, peripheral devices, input devices, output devices, sensors, etc. In some implementations, a circuit may take the form of one or more analog circuits, electronic circuits (e.g., integrated circuits (IC), discrete circuits, system on a chip (SOC) circuits), telecommunication circuits, hybrid circuits, and any other type of “circuit.” In this regard, the “circuit” may include any type of component for accomplishing or facilitating achievement of the operations described herein. For example, a circuit as described herein may include one or more transistors, logic gates (e.g., NAND, AND, NOR, OR, XOR, NOT, XNOR), resistors, multiplexers, registers, capacitors, inductors, diodes, wiring, and so on.
The “circuit” may also include one or more processors communicatively coupled to one or more memory or memory devices. In this regard, the one or more processors may execute instructions stored in the memory or may execute instructions otherwise accessible to the one or more processors. In some implementations, the one or more processors may be embodied in various ways. The one or more processors may be constructed in a manner sufficient to perform at least the operations described herein. In some implementations, the one or more processors may be shared by multiple circuits (e.g., circuit A and circuit B may comprise or otherwise share the same processor which, in some example implementations, may execute instructions stored, or otherwise accessed, via different areas of memory). Alternatively or additionally, the one or more processors may be structured to perform or otherwise execute certain operations independent of one or more co-processors. In other example implementations, two or more processors may be coupled via a bus to enable independent, parallel, pipelined, or multi-threaded instruction execution. Each processor may be implemented as one or more general-purpose processors, ASICS, FPGAs, digital signal processors (DSPs), or other suitable electronic data processing components structured to execute instructions provided by memory. The one or more processors may take the form of a single core processor, multi-core processor (e.g., a dual core processor, triple core processor, and/or quad core processor), microprocessor, etc. In some implementations, the one or more processors may be external to the apparatus, for example the one or more processors may be a remote processor (e.g., a cloud based processor). Alternatively or additionally, the one or more processors may be internal and/or local to the apparatus. In this regard, a given circuit or components thereof may be disposed locally (e.g., as part of a local server, a local computing system) or remotely (e.g., as part of a remote server such as a cloud based server). To that end, a “circuit” as described herein may include components that are distributed across one or more locations.
An exemplary system for implementing the overall system or portions of the implementations might include a general purpose computing devices in the form of computers, including a processing unit, a system memory, and a system bus that couples various system components including the system memory to the processing unit. Each memory device may include non-transient volatile storage media, non-volatile storage media, non-transitory storage media (e.g., one or more volatile and/or non-volatile memories), etc. In some implementations, the non-volatile media may take the form of ROM, flash memory (e.g., flash memory such as NAND, 3D NAND, NOR, 3D NOR), EEPROM, MRAM, magnetic storage, hard discs, optical discs, etc. In other implementations, the volatile storage media may take the form of RAM, TRAM, ZRAM, etc. Combinations of the above are also included within the scope of machine-readable media. In this regard, machine-executable instructions comprise, for example, instructions and data which cause a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or special purpose processing machines to perform a certain function or group of functions. Each respective memory device may be operable to maintain or otherwise store information relating to the operations performed by one or more associated circuits, including processor instructions and related data (e.g., database components, object code components, script components), in accordance with the example implementations described herein.
It should also be noted that the term “input devices,” as described herein, may include any type of input device including, but not limited to, a keyboard, a keypad, a mouse, joystick, or other input devices performing a similar function. Comparatively, the term “output device,” as described herein, may include any type of output device including, but not limited to, a computer monitor, printer, facsimile machine, or other output devices performing a similar function.
Any foregoing references to currency or funds are intended to include fiat currencies, non-fiat currencies (e.g., precious metals), and math-based currencies (often referred to as cryptocurrencies). Examples of math-based currencies include Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and the like.
It should be noted that although the diagrams herein may show a specific order and composition of method steps, it is understood that the order of these steps may differ from what is depicted. For example, two or more steps may be performed concurrently or with partial concurrence. Also, some method steps that are performed as discrete steps may be combined, steps being performed as a combined step may be separated into discrete steps, the sequence of certain processes may be reversed or otherwise varied, and the nature or number of discrete processes may be altered or varied. The order or sequence of any element or apparatus may be varied or substituted according to alternative implementations. Accordingly, all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the present disclosure as defined in the appended claims. Such variations will depend on the machine-readable media and hardware systems chosen and on designer choice. It is understood that all such variations are within the scope of the disclosure. Likewise, software and web implementations of the present disclosure could be accomplished with standard programming techniques with rule-based logic and other logic to accomplish the various database searching steps, correlation steps, comparison steps, and decision steps.
The foregoing description of implementations has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the disclosure to the precise form disclosed, and modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teachings or may be acquired from this disclosure. The implementations were chosen and described in order to explain the principals of the disclosure and its practical application to enable one skilled in the art to utilize the various implementations and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. Other substitutions, modifications, changes, and omissions may be made in the design, operating conditions and implementation of the implementations without departing from the scope of the present disclosure as expressed in the appended claims.
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