The International Preliminary Examining Authority
has indicated that all of the claims (PCT International Application No.
PCT/US97/13309) are both novel and inventive over the prior art considered
by the IPEA.
European data protection authorities are eager to see advancements
in privacy enhancing technologies; technologies that provide
strong assertive protection of citizen informational privacy and
informational self-determination rights. As growing levels of personal
data flows cross international borders it is imperative controls are
put into place to govern this traffic while providing innovative and
novel services for citizens who wish to take advantage of e-commerce
and information cultures yet maintain a strong assertive hand in the
collection and use of their personal information.
Invention Abstract
Utilization of the Trusted Information Utility™, Trusted
Network Community™ and Personal Information Agent™
framework and components assure an effective and comprehensive
agent-rule based command and control of informational assets in a
network computer environment.
The concerns of informational privacy and informational
self-determination are addressed squarely by the invention affording
persons and entities a trusted means to author, command, control
personal and/or confidential information in a networked computer
environment.
The formation of Trusted Network Communities™
wherein members command and control their digital persona – self-determining
digital persona – exchanging or brokering for value the trusted utility of their
informational assets is made possible by the invention.
The present invention provides for the trusted and regulatory compliant utilization
of personal data in electronic markets, providing both communities and individuals
aggregate and individual rule-based command and control of the processing of their
personal information.
Disruptive Technology
CYVA’s E-Metro™, E-Bazaar™, Personal Information Agent™, Trusted Network Community™
and Trusted Information Utility™ systems and wireless E-Metro Communicator™
products and services represent disruptive technologies
and services. These products and services will be licensed to a new class of hybrid
mCommerce and eCommerce players, ASPs, brick and mortar entities and professional service
partners - audit/assurance, systems integration, security consulting firms.
These firms will deploy applications
and services meeting the existing and coming regulatory requirements for privacy while
offering new Trusted Digital Identity™, Information Asset Management™ and Trusted
Interaction Marketing™ services which in concert will mediate
the often competing interest in utilizing and controlling the essential currency
and resource of our digital economy - accurate, reliable, and timely personal information.
The firm has anticipated the emergence of omnibus privacy regulations
governing the collection, processing, and exchange of citizen personal
information and its impact upon e-commerce as presently conceived.
Privacy, trust, and the security of personal information are clearly the
essential consumer concerns and challenges facing e-commerce. The debate
in how best to protect and mediate informational privacy and informational
self-determination rights (EU Data Protection Directive) and corporate
interests are the subjects of intense discussions within the U.S. and
amongst digital economies worldwide.