YOUnite® Receives U.S. Patent 7,461,071 B2 for Distributed Management Framework for Personal Attributes
A Technology Enabling Global Information Exchange that Includes Both Consumers and Business
Mountain View, Calif., December 15, 2008 -- YOUnite has been awarded a patent to protect its unique solution for user-controlled information sharing. With information driving the digital world, the challenge until now has been ensuring that this data is accurate and available to only authorized parties.
YOUnite has created the solution: a patented, flexible, platform-independent and scalable technology for distributed information sharing. This will be the center of the information exchange for Web 3.0 and the future of the Internet.
This groundbreaking, patented technology enables an interchange to allow sharing of user-controlled information all over the Internet as well as across multiple devices--seamlessly connecting people, communities, organizations and businesses. The technology allows users to create secure, personal-attribute and personal-preference data exchanges enabling businesses or individuals to securely distribute this information on a user-controlled and customized basis without having to store it on a centralized server. YOUnite technology ensures the data is secure, available, accurate and consistent across all environments and devices.
YOUnite, founded in 2005 by two experienced Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, allows users to share information such as shopping and travel preferences, medical data, social networking information and more—without requiring the information to be centrally stored. This lack of a centralized storage is critical to data security, privacy and global acceptance.
The technology facilitates a more comprehensive solution than anything else. The YOUnite technology allows users to create and manage their own risk profile scheme and is designed to scale in large, networked, distributed communities such as Google’s OpenSocial, Facebook’s FriendConnect and the VISA network. YOUnite was created to federate control schemas (such as personal security profiles) between communities, business entities and individuals.
“We believe that the YOUnite technology provides for the only viable method for creating a truly global information exchange that includes both consumers and businesses. Keeping people and organizations up-to-date with the information that you choose is a piece of the digital promise yet to be delivered. The paradigm covered in this patent gets us one step closer to never having to fill out forms and managing other people’s data,” said Mark Fitzpatrick, YOUnite, Inc. CTO and co-founder.
YOUnite, Inc. CEO and co-founder Tony Siress envisions a day when people will never have to fill out a form again.
“YOUnite will revolutionize the way that personal data is shared,” Siress said. “It has tremendous user control, without requiring the information to be stored in a single place. It facilitates secure selective sharing based on the user’s own rules. For example, let's say I update photos or modify any data on one of my devices. All other devices that I've already given permission to have access to that data will automatically be updated as well. Those people or entities to whom I haven't given access won't receive the data, nor know it even exists. You even have the ability to take information away. Say you don’t want your uncle to have your work email anymore because he continues to send you inappropriate jokes. With a click of the mouse. voila it’s gone.”
The YOUnite platform could be used by companies ranging from large e-tail stores like Amazon to Visa and Mastercard or social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
“YOUnite’s patented technology will be the market maker for personal information syndication, connecting everyone to everything, everywhere,” Siress said.
YOUnite plans to license this patented technology around the globe, enabling all these islands of information to “YOUnite”. For further information visit: www.youniteinc.com
For more information, please visit our website and while you're there, read through our Resources Section for specific Use Cases and White Papers.
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For more information, please contact:
Tony Siress, CEO/Co-Founder
650-641-9657
tony@youniteinc.com