Granted Patent B2

US 12,250,192 · App. 18/923,457 · Granted Mar 11, 2025

Inventors: Jonathan Wolfe (N.E. Albuquerque, NM); Mark Weinstein (Mountain View, CA)

Assignee: SGROUPLES, INC.

H04L51/52G06Q30/02G06Q30/0257G06Q50/01H04L69/329G06Q20/04H04L51/216H04L67/10

Abstract

Claims (53)

1. In a platform server system having access to a user data store, a computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a user with a first graphical user interface (GUI) having one or more GUI mechanisms for selecting a user privacy setting by the user in an interactive platform associated with the user data store;

determining a selection of the user privacy setting via the one or more GUI mechanisms in the first GUI when the user privacy setting is set for the user;

storing the selected user privacy setting in the user data store;

receiving a plurality of content from one or more third-party content providers, wherein the plurality of content is available for a presentation by the interactive platform in a second GUI;

determining a subset of the plurality of content for the presentation to the user based on filtering the plurality of content in accordance with one or more user content preferences;

presenting at least a portion of the subset of the plurality of content via a data visualization in the second GUI;

detecting a user input based on an interaction with at least one of the subset of the plurality of content in the data visualization;

anonymizing the user input to preclude the one or more third-party content provider from receiving identity information of the user based on the selected user privacy setting; and

transmitting the anonymized user input to the one or more third-party content providers.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the data visualization comprises a chronological aggregation of the at least the portion of the subset of the plurality of content presented based on a device displaying the second GUI.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of content is received based on one or more permissions of the user to access the plurality of content from the one or more third-party content providers.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the at least the portion of the subset of the plurality of content is presented in the second GUI with the one or more GUI mechanisms for a further selection associated with the presentation by the interactive platform, and wherein the one or more GUI mechanisms in the second GUI enable the user to select at least one of an amount of textual information or an amount of graphical information of the presentation in the second GUI, and wherein the one or more GUI mechanisms include global settings and group settings.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

providing a third GUI having the one or more GUI mechanisms for an optional selection of the one or more user content preferences by the user in the interactive platform; and

storing the one or more user content preferences when selected in the user data store.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

creating a content filter associated with the one or more user content preferences, wherein the one or more user content preferences are associated with one or more of a default content preference, a user interaction with the interactive platform, or a user selected content preference selected from a third GUI having the one or more GUI mechanisms, and wherein the filtering the plurality of content is performed using the content filter.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the detected user input is stored in the user data store and refines the one or more user content preferences for the determining the subset of the plurality of content in a subsequent presentation of third-party content to the user.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more GUI mechanisms in the first GUI or the second GUI enable the user to refine the user privacy setting based on the at least the portion of the subset of the plurality of content presented via the data visualization.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein, prior to the filtering, the computer-implemented method further comprises:

obtaining the plurality of content via a partner service of the platform server system, wherein the plurality of content is obtained based on user information associated with the user data store.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the user information associated with the user data store comprises at least one of network information, location information, or web browsing information associated with the user.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the obtaining the plurality of content via the partner service precludes the one or more third-party content providers from receiving the identity information of the user.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein one of the GUI mechanisms in the first GUI allow for the selection of the user privacy setting which restricts the one or more third-party content providers from at least one of receiving the identity information of the user from the interactive platform or tracking interactions by the user with the plurality of content from the one or more third-party content providers.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the one of the GUI mechanisms in the first GUI allows for the selection of the user privacy setting which permits providing at least a portion of the identity information to the one or more third-party content providers.

14. In a platform server system having access to a user data store, a computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a user with a first graphical user interface (GUI) having one or more GUI mechanisms for an optional selection of a user privacy setting by the user in an interactive platform associated with the user data store;

receiving an indication of the optional selection of the user privacy setting via the one or more GUI mechanisms in the first GUI when the user privacy setting is set for the user;

storing the selected user privacy setting in the user data store, wherein the user data store is associated with a user identity of the user;

receiving a plurality of content from one or more third-party content providers, wherein the plurality of content is available for a presentation by the interactive platform in a second GUI;

determining a subset of the plurality of content for the presentation to the user based on filtering the plurality of content in accordance with one or more user content preferences;

presenting at least a portion of the subset of the plurality of content via a data visualization in the second GUI;

detecting a user input based on an interaction with at least one of the subset of the plurality of content in the data visualization; and

transmitting the user input to at least one of the one or more third-party content providers based the user privacy settings, wherein the user is anonymized, or the user identity associated with the user data store is in whole or in-part provided with the user input, when the user input is transmitted to the at least one of the one or more third-party content providers based the user privacy settings.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein one of the one or more GUI mechanisms in the first GUI allows for selecting a portion of the user identity that is transmissible to the one or more third-party content providers.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein the user identity includes at least one of network information, location information, or web browsing information.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein, prior to the filtering, the computer-implemented method further comprises:

obtaining the plurality of content via a partner service of the platform server system, wherein the plurality of content is obtained based on the user identity associated with the user data store, and wherein the obtaining the plurality of content via the partner service precludes the one or more third-party content providers from receiving or determining the user identity of the user.

18. In a platform server system having access to a user data store, a computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a user with a first graphical user interface (GUI) having one or more GUI mechanisms for selecting a user privacy setting by the user in an interactive platform associated with the user data store;

determining a selection of the user privacy setting via the one or more GUI mechanisms in the first GUI when the user privacy setting is set for the user;

storing the selected user privacy setting in the user data store;

determining a plurality of content for a presentation to the user;

receiving the plurality of content from one or more third-party content providers, wherein the plurality of content is available for the presentation by the interactive platform in a second GUI;

presenting at least a portion of the plurality of content via a data visualization in the second GUI, wherein the plurality of content is filtered in accordance with one or more user content preferences;

detecting a user input based on an interaction with at least one of the plurality of content in the data visualization;

anonymizing the user input to preclude the one or more third-party content provider from receiving identity information of the user based on the selected user privacy setting; and

transmitting the anonymized user input to the one or more third-party content providers.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 , wherein, prior to the presenting the at least the portion of the plurality of content, the computer-implemented method further comprises:

filtering the plurality of content in accordance with the one or more user content preferences; and

determining the at least the portion of the plurality of content for the presentation via the data visualization based on the plurality of filtered content.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 , wherein the plurality of content is filtered in accordance with one or more user content preferences prior to the presentation by the interactive platform in the second GUI.

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