User centric data maintenance

US9754123B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Jacob Sabulsky · Kirkland, US
• Christopher Scott Dickens · Issaquah, US
• Zainab Hakim · Redmond, US
• Harris Syed · Redmond, US
• Axel Andrejs · Sammamish, US
• John Saxon Morrow · Seattle, US
• Ranjib Singh Badh · Redmond, US
• Sarjana Sheth · Redmond, US
• Sermet Iskin · Redmond, US
• Manoj K. Biswas · Bellevue, US
• Sashi Raghupathy · Redmond, US
• Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram · Hyderabad, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 8, 2016
• Grant date: Sep 5, 2017
• Expiry date: Jul 8, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F21/78
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for dynamically maintaining user centric data. For example, a data provider app may have knowledge about user centric data associated with a user (e.g., a social network app may have contact information for a social network friend of the user). A user centric profile may be defined for the user centric data based upon information provided by the data provider app (e.g., a contact card may be generated for the social network friend). Responsive to receiving a request for the user centric profile from a requestor app (e.g., an event planning app), the user centric profile may be exposed to the user but not to the requestor app for security and/or privacy purposes. For example, an operating system may present at least some of the user centric profile within an operating system user interface.