Abstract: A service may be any device hardware and/or software, or portion thereof, that can be identified by a provider for sharing with or selling to a consumer device in accord with a negotiation for its sharing or selling. The consumer may be any machine capable of consuming or providing a service; artificial intelligence may facilitate the sharing/selling. A witness may: track negotiations for sharing/selling, authenticate consumers/providers, and facilitate financial payments between consumers/providers. Financial charges may be micro-charges, e.g., very low cost. A consumer/provider may have an associated reputation that may affect the negotiation, and a party may be transitory and/or in an environment risking interruption of the sharing or selling, and these characteristics may affect the negotiation. The witness may electively cover losses to the consumer/provider, particularly when the cost of the transaction is a micro-charge.

Abstract: A service may be any device hardware and/or software, or portion thereof, that can be identified by a provider for sharing with or selling to a consumer device in accord with a negotiation for its sharing or selling. The consumer may be any machine capable of consuming or providing a service; artificial intelligence may facilitate the sharing/selling. A witness may: track negotiations for sharing/selling, authenticate consumers/providers, and facilitate financial payments between consumers/providers. Financial charges may be micro-charges, e.g., very low cost. A consumer/provider may have an associated reputation that may affect the negotiation, and a party may be transitory and/or in an environment risking interruption of the sharing or selling, and these characteristics may affect the negotiation. The witness may electively cover losses to the consumer/provider, particularly when the cost of the transaction is a micro-charge.

Abstract: A system and method for protecting user privacy in multimedia uploaded to Internet sites. Briefly stated, the method includes receiving, by a server hosting an Internet privacy protection service, a media item of a subscriber of the service from a social networking service. The media item is encrypted using Digital Rights Management techniques. Policy determining who can view the media item is generated. The encrypted media item is securely stored in a cloud storage network. Storage information, including a URL of the secure storage location for the encrypted media item, is received by the Internet privacy protection service from the cloud storage network. The Internet privacy protection service generates a proxy image by encoding the URL into the proxy image using a bar code. The Internet privacy protection service uploads the proxy image to the subscriber's social networking service account on the social networking service.

Abstract: A system and method for protecting user privacy in multimedia uploaded to Internet sites. Briefly stated, the method includes receiving, by a server hosting an Internet privacy protection service, a media item of a subscriber of the service from a social networking service. The media item is encrypted using Digital Rights Management techniques. Policy determining who can view the media item is generated. The encrypted media item is securely stored in a cloud storage network. Storage information, including a URL of the secure storage location for the encrypted media item, is received by the Internet privacy protection service from the cloud storage network. The Internet privacy protection service generates a proxy image by encoding the URL into the proxy image using a bar code. The Internet privacy protection service uploads the proxy image to the subscriber's social networking service account on the social networking service.

Abstract: A service may be any device hardware and/or software, or portion thereof, that can be identified by a provider for sharing with or selling to a consumer device in accord with a negotiation for its sharing or selling. The consumer may be any machine capable of consuming or providing a service; artificial intelligence may facilitate the sharing/selling. A witness may: track negotiations for sharing/selling, authenticate consumers/providers, and facilitate financial payments between consumers/providers. Financial charges may be micro-charges, e.g., very low cost. A consumer/provider may have an associated reputation that may affect the negotiation, and a party may be transitory and/or in an environment risking interruption of the sharing or selling, and these characteristics may affect the negotiation. The witness may electively cover losses to the consumer/provider, particularly when the cost of the transaction is a micro-charge.