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System and method for performing a similarity measure of anonymized data

  • US 20070239705A1
  • Filed: 03/29/2006
  • Published: 10/11/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A processor-implemented method of performing a similarity measure of a plurality of privacy-protected data, comprising:

  • selecting a first value and a first context related to the first value;

    dividing the first value into a first plurality of substrings in an order preserving way;

    processing each substring of the first plurality of substrings through an obfuscation function to produce a first plurality of order preserved obfuscated substrings;

    selecting a second value and a second context related to the second value;

    dividing the second value into a second plurality of substrings in the order preserving way;

    processing each substring of the second plurality of substrings through the obfuscation function to produce a second plurality of order preserved obfuscated substrings;

    comparing the first and second plurality of order preserved obfuscated substrings, and determining a value similarity measure for the first and second values based on the comparison of the first and second plurality of order preserved obfuscated substrings; and

    comparing the first context and the second context, and determining a context similarity measure for the first context and the second context based on the comparison of the first and second contexts.

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