METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING THE GENERATION OF ACCESS CONTROL PREFERENCES AND/OR PRIVACY PREFERENCES FOR USERS IN A PERVASIVE ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A method and a system for supporting the generation of access control preferences and/or privacy preferences for users in a pervasive service environment, wherein an automated user information management system stores and/or manages personal information items owned by and/or associated to a user, wherein an access control system is provided for processing requests from a pervasive service and/or application that query a set of the user-specific information items being stored in and/or managed by the user information management system, are characterized in that an entityfeedback collectoris provided, the feedback collector being configured to collect individual access control and/or privacy preferences from a plurality of users, to derive a popular rule set of access control and/or privacy preferences from the collected individual access control and/or privacy preferences, and to provide the popular rule set of access control and/or privacy preferences to users of the pervasive service environment.