Nokia Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Julien Eberle

Gian Paolo Perrucci

Julian Charles Nolan

Niko Kiukkonen

Debmalya Biswas

Jan Otto Blom

Imad Aad

Juha Kalevi Laurila

Mats Lönngren

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Raul Montoliu-Colas

An approach is provided for determining and utilizing geographical locations contextually relevant to a user. A contextually relevant location platform determines location-based data associated with a user and/or user device. The contextually relevant location platform determines stationary points based, at least in part, on the location-based data. The contextually relevant location platform determines context data associated with the stationary points. The contextually relevant location platform determines at least one location anchor based, at least in part, on the stationary points and the associated context data, wherein the at least one location anchor represents a bounded geographical area of contextual relevance to the user.

Method and apparatus for determining contextually relevant geographical locations

A method and an apparatus provide for operating a user interface of a device to receive from a user, for individual ones of a plurality of user privacy categories, a user privacy setting; to map each user privacy setting to one or more device sensors to form a sensor policy for the user privacy category; and to monitor application program accesses to device sensors to detect a violation of a sensor policy. An aspect of the exemplary embodiments of this invention is the user interface that can represent privacy levels of each application program to the user in a 'user-friendly' format. Another aspect of the exemplary embodiments is to provide the user device with an ability to detect and act on or at least report privacy violations by the application programs.

Method and apparatus providing privacy setting and monitoring user interface

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Julien Eberle