Patent application EP20180836A (EP), filed 2020-06-18
Publication number: EP3754531A1
Title: VIRTUALIZATION FOR PRIVACY CONTROL
Abstract: [0001]    A system and method for increasing user control of data comprising a first user device configured to create data; a user application configured to virtualize and fragment data created by the first user device; a data collector server configured to store, protect, and composite data fragments; a private user storage area configured to store and protect data fragments; and a second user device connected configured to request data uploaded by the first user device. The first user device creates data that gets sent the user application, which virtualizes, fragments and sends a majority of the data to the data collector servers and a minority of the data to the private user storage area. As a user via the second user device requests the data uploaded by the first user device, the data collector server composites the data fragments and transfers the composited data to the second user device.
IPC codes: H04L  29/    08            A I
G06F  21/    60            A I
G06F  21/    62            A I
H04L   9/    08            A I
H04L  67/  1004            A I
H04L  67/  1097            A I
H04L   9/    40            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: A system for increasing user control of data, the system comprising:
number: 2
text: The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more private user storage areas comprise one or more user servers or client device local memories.
number: 3
text: The system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the one or more private user storage areas are configured within a distributed ledger network.
number: 4
text: The system of claim 3, wherein the system is configured to perform asymmetric key encryption of the minority of the data in the distributed ledger network by:
number: 5
text: The system of any one of the previous claims, wherein the data fragments are encrypted using an asymmetric key encryption mechanism comprising:
number: 6
text: The system of any one of the previous claims, wherein the data received from the first user device comprises media files including one or more of text files, image files, audio files, or video files, or combinations thereof; and/or
the one or more data collector servers are part of a social media network.
number: 7
text: The system of any one of the previous claims, wherein the majority of the data represents between about 99% and about 99.99% of the data, and wherein the minority of the data represents between about 1% and about 0.01% of the data.
number: 8
text: The system of any one of the previous claims, wherein a data owner can delete the minority of the data located in the one or more private user storage areas, thereby invalidating the majority of the data.
number: 9
text: A method for increasing user control of data, the method comprising:
number: 10
text: The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more private user storage areas comprise one or more user servers or client device local memories.
number: 11
text: The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the one or more private user storage areas are configured within a distributed ledger network.
number: 12
text: The method of claim 11, further comprising performing asymmetric key encryption of the minority of the data in the distributed ledger network by:
number: 13
text: The method of any one of claims 9 to 12, wherein the data fragments are encrypted using an asymmetric key encryption mechanism including:
number: 14
text: The method of any one of claims 9 to 13, further comprising deleting the minority of the data located in the private user storage area, thereby invalidating the majority of the data.
number: 15
text: One or more non-transitory computer readable media stored thereon instructions configured to cause a computer system comprising memory and at least one processor to perform the method of any one of claims 9 to 14.
Office action: search_report, dated 2020-12-23
Prior art cited: ref_id: US2019075064A1
ref_type: patent
severity: background
ref_id: US2019075064
ref_type: patent
severity: background
Final disposition: pending (2020-12-23)