US 11,860,983 B2
System and method for implementing user watermarks
Olaf Jonny Groth, Berkeley, CA (US); Mark Jay Nitzberg, Berkeley, CA (US); Manu Kalia, San Francisco, CA (US); Tobias Christopher Straube, Frankfurt (DE); and Daniel A Zehr, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to Cambrian Designs, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US)
Filed by Cambrian Designs, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 19, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/128,078.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/964,428, filed on Jan. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/957,885, filed on Jan. 7, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/951,271, filed on Dec. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0100825 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 50/18 (2012.01); G06F 21/16 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2023.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/31 (2013.01) [G06F 21/16 (2013.01); G06F 21/577 (2013.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01); G06F 21/6209 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06F 21/6254 (2013.01); G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0206 (2013.01); G06Q 50/18 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0737 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2123 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of implementing privacy protection for user data during online interactions with a third party digital services provider (DSP) comprising:
a. defining an initial personal privacy charter (PPC) based on a set of user enabled data restriction rules;
wherein said initial PPC includes an assignment of a data type and a data restriction parameter to individual user data items as part of said set of user enabled data restriction rules, and such that at least some of said individual user data items are designated as selected user data items subject to tracking and watermarking requirements in communications with DSPs;
b. monitoring a user's interaction with a DSP during a data session, to determine if user data falling within said initial PPC, including said selected user data items, is to be communicated to the DSP;
c. modifying selected individual ones of said selected user data items in said user data, on an data item-by-item basis in accordance with said initial PPC, to include embedded tracking information selected and applied in accordance with an associated data type and data restriction parameter;
wherein tracking information for individual ones of said selected user data items: 1) is selected and applied to permit later identification of such items; and 2) is configured for a respective data type of such items such that multiple forms of tracking information are employed with said user data during said data session with said DSP.