Patent ID: 9495397
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. At least one computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by a computing device associated with a user, provide the computing device with a Data Agent to: manage access to local data by one or more applications executing on the computing device, based at least in part upon data acquisition rights associated with the one or more applications, for contemporaneous processing by the one or more applications, wherein the local data are simultaneously captured by sensors of the computing device; and transmit a copy of the local data to a remote historical data store to be categorized or correlated with data from a plurality of other computing devices correspondingly associated with a plurality of other users; wherein when the Data Agent is to restrict access by one of the one or more applications to only portions of the local data, as part of the management of access, only obfuscated version data is accessible by the one of the one or more applications, wherein the Data Agent is to generate the obfuscated version data based on the local data, the obfuscated version data including the only portions of the local data, where access is permitted, and which excludes other portions of the local data, where access is restricted, and wherein the only portions of the local data where access is permitted comprise only portions of the local data that the one of the one or more applications requires to properly operate and has permission to access.