CONSUMER AND BRAND OWNER DATA MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND CONSUMER PRIVACY TOOLS

摘要

The disclosed tools include enhanced and flexible login and profile management tools as well as brand owner communication tools that provide more flexibility in regards to information sharing that benefit both users and brand owners and ease the integration of user information into brand owner databases. Also disclosed are tools for an end user to control both how and who uses her personal data. Specifically, these tools permit her to authorize which pieces of personal data may be used by particular actors to perform particular tasks. In addition, these tools allow the tasks to be performed while simultaneously limiting the number of actor(s)/servers/devices in possession of her personal data.

主权项

1. A computer system, configured to initiate a task execution using end user personal data upon a request from relying party computing device that has no access to said end user personal data, the computer system comprising:
memory for storing instructions that are executable by processor electronics; and processor electronics configured to execute the instructions in order to: request validation of a task authorization and a task performance ability for a task associated with an access token, wherein the access token was created in response to an end user's authorization to execute the task using end user personal data upon task execution being requested by a relying party; in response to receiving confirmation that the task authorization and performance ability are valid, transmit a personal data token response, said personal data token response authorizing the execution of the task in response to the relying party requesting task execution; in response to receiving a personal data task request based at least on a reply to the personal data token response transmitted by the relying party device, determine if the task authorization associated to the end user personal data token response is still valid and if the task associated to the end user personal data token response is still able to be performed; and in response to confirmation that the authorization associated to the end user personal data token response is still valid and that the task associated to the end user personal data token response is still able to be performed, initiate the execution of the task authorized by the end user personal data token response using the end user personal data.