Patent Application
20210377227
The present invention relates to a system and method for protecting the privacy information while enhancing online experiences for users over Internet.
Internet users today are exposed with almost no privacy online, from who you are to where you go, from what you searched, viewed, liked or not liked, to what you shared with family, friends or even personal doctors. Those privacy related information should be strictly protected as personal property with clear consent for intended use. But today most of them are controlled, exploited, and used by other parties to monitor, influence and even manipulate the users lives. This invention, referred to as the “Private-web” here, let users to take back the control of their online privacy while enhancing their online experiences.
The Private-web invention leverages the previously patented distributed internet service (DIS) technology, and provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-use software solution to completely solves the user privacy protection problem. The user may buy and own the software, or may pay a subscription fee to use the software without owning it, the so-called SaaS (Software as a Service) model.
The Private-web is the first complete solution than any other privacy-protection solution on market today. It utilizes the patented distributed internet service technology to enable the decentralized applications that execute only on user's devices and are dedicated to serve the user. The online user's privacy data ranges broadly. The prior art only addresses certain subsets of it, thus failing to provide a complete solution.
After over two decades of online e-commerce development in global market, most of the users' online activities heavily rely to applications for social media network, online commerce, online search and other interactive online services from news, education, entertainment etc. Most of them are free to use. However, typically in exchange of the “free” usage or service, the users have to agree to give up their certain privacy information to those application service providers. Those providers acquire the privacy information and exploit them for profits from targeted advertisement to personalized sales, etc. This is exactly the business model that makes many of this generation of online application service providers hugely profitable with the reach of billions of online users worldwide. Those providers have become trillion-dollar companies, unprecedented in civilization history.
Furthermore the lack of privacy information protection to billions of online users today has left a huge crack to the parties who would manipulate the information for malicious purpose. The Private-web solution offers users an option to protect their online privacy, and it will greatly improve the way that users interact and enjoy their online life style. This invention expects to benefit billions of online users worldwide.
This invention provides a solution to the root problem of online privacy data protection. Online users today reply on various internet applications that are controlled and operated by third-party providers via their servers, such as social media networking, search, information, shopping, travel, entertainment, sports, education, online investment, and others. Online users access those internet applications via web browser or the local thin client (often referred to as APPs) provided by the application owner, some even pre-installed on the PC, laptop, smartphone or pads. Those application owners acquire all the user privacy related data (Type 1, 2 and 3) through their control of those applications via the servers and clients or web pages. Therefore, online users today have no power to protect their privacy related data.
The Private-Web software provides online users with the user-controlled decentralized applications, the user-controlled intelligent online accesses, and used-controlled management of all types of privacy related data through the Smart Cloud (trademark pending) services.
The PrivateWeb consists of MyApp, MyData, and MyCloud
1. MyApp provides a group of decentralized applications, such as MyFriends which provides social media networking and messaging functions, that execute on MyCloud and are fully owned and controlled by the user, not by any other parties.
2. MyData manages all privacy related data and provides personalized data intelligence for mycloud using a proprietary “data sphere” technology
3. MyCloud a personal cloud that supports all Private-Web applications, middleware, data and online access services across all user-designated personal online devices. It is responsible for all the distal assets life-cycle services, including distribution, updating, synchronization, and purging between the user SmartCloud Service: the 24×7 full hosting service.
MyApp consists of:
A portal application consisting of a personalized UI, a secured browser engine such as one based on the open-source Gecko (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software))
It is noted that using PrivateWeb does not prevent the user from using the worldwide web as usual where no privacy protection is provided by the PrivateWeb. For instance, a user may want to share privacy related data voluntarily in Facebook, use Google for search, or use the Internet Explorer to shop directly on amazon.com.
MyData consists of DataSphere, Database and Interface. DataSphere is an intelligent data proxy service for MyApp, and controls the interface layer for connection to the Internet.
1. Major MyData functions include
2. Protect User Privacy Related (UPR) Data;
3. Provide Intelligent Data Proxy Service;
4. Provide Intelligent Web Proxy Service, and
5. Secure Data Storage.
Major DataSphere functions include
1. Protect UPR data:
2. Personalized Data Intelligence:
Track and analyze the in- and out-bound data using the language engine similar to those used for speech processing along with the personalized “value matrix” to provide intelligent in- and out-bound data services, meanwhile continuously augment the personalized data service. (Distributed Internet Service (DIS) and related Multiple-dimension Value Matrix technology).
3. Digital Asset Life-cycle Management:
Creation, storage, revision, retrieve, consented usage, purge, etc., and every life-cycle action is also recorded and stored together along with the asset.
MyData Use Case 1: MyData Protects Online Search Keywords Privacy and Provides Personalized Intelligent Data Service.
Step 1: User searches “Nike male sneaker”.
Step 2: My Data acts.
Step 3: MyData acts (with continued reference to the schematic in Step 2):
MyData Use Case 2: My Data Protects IP Address Data Privacy (with continued reference to the schematic in Case 1, Step 1):
Step 1: User requests to go online.
Step 2: MyData acts:
MyData Use Case 3: MyData Filters Intelligently Incoming Web Pages (with continued reference to the schematics in Case 1, Steps 1 and 2, respectively)
MyCloud provides support for
1. Online privacy protection across all the user-designated online devices.
2. All the clients of the user's MyApp.
MyCloud is the user's own Private Cloud Service among all the user's online devices and MyApp's clients. It is based on the inventor's patented “Distributed Internet Service” system (DIS) technology incorporated herein by reference.
Major MyCloud Functions include:
MyCloud Hosting has three choices:
SmartCloud provides the full service for the Private-Web including
2. 7×24 MyCloud operation
3. Continuous enhancement
In summary Private-Web enables the user-owned social networking applications and protection to access to rest online applications, thus effectively enabling the user to control all the privacy related data. The Private-Web also provides the personalized data intelligent services, actively searching, analyzing and filtering the data from other online sources based on the user's behavior, better and better serving the user's needs. The Private-Web protects the user's online privacy and provides the best personalized intelligent online services.
So that the matter in which the above-recited features, advantages and objects of the invention, as well as others that will become clear, are attained and can be understood in detail, more particular descriptions of the invention briefly summarized above may be had by reference to certain embodiments thereof that are illustrated in the appended drawings. These drawings form a part of the specification. It is to be noted, however, that the appended drawings illustrate preferred embodiments of the invention and therefore are not to be considered limiting in their scope.
The articles “a” and “an” when used in conjunction with the term “comprising” in the claims and/or the specification, may refer to “one”, but is also consistent with the meaning of “one or more”, “at least one”, and “one or more than one”. Some embodiments of the invention may consist of or consist essentially of one or more elements, components, method steps, and/or methods of the invention. It is contemplated that any composition, component or method described herein can be implemented with respect to any other composition, component or method described herein.
The term “or” in the claims refers to “and/or” unless explicitly indicated to refer to alternatives only or the alternatives are mutually exclusive, although the disclosure supports a definition that refers to only alternatives and “and/or”.
The terms “comprise” and “comprising” are used in the inclusive, open sense, meaning that additional elements may be included.
The term “including” is used herein to mean “including, but not limited to”. “Including” and “including but not limited to” are used interchangeably.
As used herein, the term “about” refers to a numeric value, including, for example, whole numbers, fractions, and percentages, whether or not explicitly indicated. The term “about” generally refers to a range of numerical values (e.g., +/−5-10% of the recited value) that one of ordinary skill in the art would consider equivalent to the recited value (e.g., having the same function or result). In some instances, the term “about” may include numerical values that are rounded to the nearest significant figure.
The present invention is directed to a system for protecting privacy data of an online user over an internet connection comprising an application module comprising a plurality of decentralized applications and an online access portal in electronic communication with an internet device; a data module in electronic communication with the application module and configured to protect user privacy related (UPR) data, provide intelligent data proxy service, provide intelligent web proxy service and secure data storage, said data module comprising a data sphere; a database; and an interphase; and a cloud module comprising a user-end distributed internet service in electronic communication with the data module and configured to execute the decentralized applications and securely communicate over the internet connection.
The Private-Web is a software system that mainly resides and executes on the online devices of an internet user. This software acts as the main entry for the user to conduct activities on internet, provides personalized protection to the privacy information meanwhile intelligent information process for the online user. Compared with the typical way that a user relies on for conducting activities on internet today, that is via a browser or third-party applications, which has almost no protection to the user's privacy information, the Private-web solves the much needed yet complicated online privacy protection problem meanwhile enables the intelligent process both for the output and input information tailored for the user's personal needs.
Typical internet devices may include smartphone, PC, laptop, internet appliances used for home, office or car. An internet user may use one or more of such devices to conduct internet activities.
The online privacy protection is a complicated problem as it relates to a broad range of information and ways to conduct online activities. Especially since the wide spread usage of internet generated the current generation of e-commerce during the past quarter century, almost of all major online activities today result in the giving up some of a user's online privacy information. One of the major e-commerce business models is to provide free online service in exchange for the service provider to acquire certain information from the user and to send the user certain information, mainly advertisement or some sort of targeted information. In fact, this business model has been hugely successful in global market that it has generated a number of tech giants earning billions of dollars of annual profits with over trillion-dollar market valuation, first time in the civilization history. Those service providers have several billions of users over the internet worldwide, and constantly acquire and mining the ocean size of data from their users' privacy information, meanwhile online users' behaviors are more and more being closely monitored, influenced and even manipulated by the service providers.
For example, when a user uses a free search engine application trying to find a pair of sneakers, the keywords used, the type of online device, the IP address, the geo location as well as the interactive response to the in-page advertisement, etc. will be captured by the service provider.
When a user uses Facebook to connect to friends, the text entered, pictures uploaded, etc. will all be shared with Facebook by agreeing to the “Terms and Conditions” of using their free social networking application at the time the user download their application and created the account. Facebook owns global, perpetual and royalty-free rights to use all the user contributed content. In addition, by the same agreement the user has agreed for Facebook to collect just about every piece of information about the user when using this application, including but not limited to name, sex, age, online interactive behavior, IP, online device, geo location, contact list, etc. Also the Facebook has access to all the pictures, videos, documents, messages, camera, microphone, calendar, notes, etc.
Privacy information is personal property protected by constitution. Online users today giving up privacy information in exchange of conducting online activities is because of lack of the effective online services that enable them to conduct necessary applications without giving up privacy information. This invention provides a complete solution for online users to conduct necessary application online without giving up privacy information. This invention can be further combined with other solutions such as data storage, cyber security services and digital right protection to expand into various solution bundles that meet the needs of billions of online users today. The complete online privacy protection solution will change the way how the current generation of e-commerce is conducted and has tremendous potential market value.
The Private-Web software system consists of four subsystems, i.e. MyApp, MyData, MyCloud and Smart Cloud Service (also referred to as Distributed Internet Services or DIS). See
By categorizing all user privacy related (UPR) information or data into three categories, i.e. 1) user-generated, 2) application-generated, and 3) server captured (see
MyApp subsystem consists of two major components: 1) Decentralized applications (or DApp), and 2) Online Access Portal, see
Web application itself is prior arts, either existing open-source software or developed by software developers, not part of this invention. However, to enable a regular web application to become a DApp in online user's own personal cloud environment using the Smart Cloud service is one of the major parts of this invention. What separates regular web application with DApp is that web application is web-server centric, owned by the application provider aiming to serve a large amount of user over internet. DApp is owned by the user aiming to serve a smaller group of friends. So there will be no application provider online to monitor and capture the user privacy information by using the DApp.
The DApp component can contain any application that is needed by the online user, see
To enable web application to become a DApp will be described later in the sections about MyCloud and Smart Cloud Service, and the DIS patent portfolio.
Online Access Portal component consists of mainly the user-interface (UI), Browser Control Module and Browser Engine, see
MyData subsystem consists of also two major components: 1) DataSphere, and 2) Interface, see
The DataSphere component takes input data from MyApp subsystem along with the usage flag, then processes the data accordingly, see
The Interface component is responsible to control certain system drivers including VPN for IP connection, GPS position, etc., see
The database is prior art such as using the enterprise-grade PostgreSQL.
MyCloud subsystem is mainly based on the Distributed Internet Services (also referred to as Smart Cloud Service). The major function is to support the distributed execution of MyApp and MyData among the various online devices of the user as well as the online devices of any and all clients of MyApp Decentralized Applications such as MyFriend. MyCloud provides a personal cloud service over Internet for the specific MyApp and MyData for the user as part of the user's private web. The user owns his/her MyApp and MyData that run across all the related online devices.
The Distributed Internet Services, or the Smart Cloud Service, conduct complete life cycle service for all digital assets of MyApp and MyData, including distribution, deployment, execution, synchronization, updating and purge. The service is deployed as a cloud service from the DIS management server. The Smart Cloud Service for MyCloud can be implemented based on each user's choice and online device environment with customized configuration. See
The nested scale-up of MyApp Decentralized Application such as MyFriend is based on each user own MyApp and MyCloud service with his/her friends that sign up as “Friend”. The relationship is always “Host-and-Client”, i.e., the owner of the MyFriend application is the host and whoever signs in as “friend” is the client of this MyFriend application. The host and client are served by the owner's MyCloud service.
A client can have his/her own MyFriend and invite his/her own friends where he/she is the host of his/her own MyFriend application with his/her own MyCloud service. Different MyFriend applications and served by different MyCloud service, in general, have different digital content and different cloud structure due to different group of devices and network environment. The same client DIS on a user's device may serve more than one set of digital assets with respective service requirements. See
Based on the six degree of separation theory, people can be easily connected through the nested MyClouds through the world and information (such as news posting) can be distributed and re-distributed across the nested MyFriend circles to reach almost any large number of crowds. This kind of decentralized nested connection and information distribution is better than today's server-centric model as the information distribution can be.
This non-provisional application claims benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) of provisional application U.S. Ser. No. 62/912,289, filed Oct. 8, 2019, the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 62912289 | Oct 2019 | US |
