Provisioning user attributes for use with mobile computing device
View Patent ↗A mobile computing device hosts an operating system and mobile applications. A provisioning application communicates with a secure element and near field communication (NFC) subsystem. It causes display of an interface for users to enter personal attributes for storage in the secure element. Users discriminately select items from their personal attributes for transmission to a third party recipient so only attributes relative to the third party are sent. Software, interfaces, methods, and apparatus typify the embodiments.
1. A mobile computing device, comprising:
a housing;
one or more controllers in the housing to host an operating system and one or more mobile applications;
a data transport protocol subsystem in the housing to communicate with a communications terminal external to the housing of the mobile computing device; and
a secure element,
wherein said one or more mobile applications includes a provisioning application in communication with the secure element and the data transport protocol subsystem, the provisioning application is configured to cause display of an interface whereby users enter personal attributes for storage in the secure element and enable the users to discriminately select items from said personal attributes so that the provisioning application bundles together only said select items of the personal attributes for communication by the data transport protocol subsystem to the communications terminal so third party recipients of the select items of personal attributes receive information pertinent to the third party recipients.
2. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning application is further configured to communicate with a positioning system so users can select items from said personal attributes according to a present location of the housing.
3. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning application is further configured to receive input from the third party recipients recommending which attributes of the personal attributes are relevant to the third party recipients.
4. The mobile computing device of claim 3 , wherein the provisioning application is further configured to automatically populate from the secure element as many attributes as possible according to the recommendations by the third party recipients.
5. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning application is further configured to allow the users to create one or more profiles of aggregated personal attributes that can be communicated to the third party recipients.
6. The mobile computing device of claim 5 , wherein the interface is configured to present options to the users to collect the personal attributes according to a profile type.
7. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the interface is configured to present options to the users so the users can said discriminately select items according to individually selectable preferences, profiles of grouped said personal attributes, profiles associated with a geographic location, or a known said third party recipient.
8. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the interface is configured to present to the user a list of said personal attributes having been selected by the user for sending to the third party recipients.
9. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning application is configured to collect the personal attributes from the users in a format pre-specified by the third party recipients.
10. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the data transport protocol subsystem includes a near field communication transmitter and receiver.
11. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the data transport protocol subsystem includes Bluetooth or wireless USB.
12. The mobile computing device of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning application is further configured to communicate with an address book, list of contacts, calendar, clock, or mapping function in the housing.
13. The mobile computing device of claim 12 , wherein the provisioning application is further configured to make suggestions to the users or automatically select a profile of multiple said personal attributes based upon said communication with the address book, list of contacts, calendar, clock, or mapping function.