Patent ID: 9537889
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A system for submitting a limited amount of trusted crowdsourced sensor data to cloud service, said system comprising: a memory associated with a mobile computing device, said memory storing no more than a threshold quantity of single-use data tags issued by a data tag authority, said single-use data tags having expiration data associated therewith; one or more sensors; and a processor programmed to: obtain sensor data from at least one of the sensors; identify one of the threshold quantity of single-use data tags from the memory based on the expiration data; associate the obtained sensor data with the identified single-use data tag to create a trusted crowdsourced packet; send the trusted crowdsourced packet to a cloud service for storage; after sending the trusted crowdsourced packet to the cloud service for storage, alter the identified single-use data tag in the memory, to prevent re-use of the identified single-use data tag, by altering the expiration data to indicate that the identified single-use data tag has expired.