Systems and Methods for Protecting the Anonymity of Entities

• US 20090086963A1
• Filed: 09/28/2007
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mathon Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Mathon Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Dugan, Jonathan M.
• Application Number:
  US11/864,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20090086963A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/29
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification

Abstract

Systems and methods for protecting the anonymity of one or more entities comprising personalizing a reference associated with information about an entity using one or more codes associated with a viewing entity to generate a personalized reference with which to present the information to the viewing entity.

Claims

1. A method for protecting the anonymity of one or more entities, the method comprising personalizing a reference associated with information about an entity using one or more codes associated with a viewing entity to generate a personalized reference with which to present the information to the viewing entity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more codes are unknown to the viewing entity.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference is at least one of:

a URL, an address, a pointer, and an identifier.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalizing comprises hashing the reference using the one or more codes.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the hashing comprises hashing the reference using the one or more codes and one or more information-associated codes.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the entity and the viewing entity are at least one of:

a person, a group of persons, and an organization.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the hashing is bidirectional.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more codes are unknown to the viewing entity.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the reference is at least one of:

a URL, an address, a pointer, and an identifier.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the system being configured to personalize comprises the system being configured to hash the reference using the one or more codes.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the system being configured to hash comprises the system being configured to hash the reference using the one or more codes and one or more information-associated codes.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the entity and the viewing entity are at least one of:

a person, a group of persons, and an organization.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the hashing is bidirectional.

8. An information handling system, the system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memory units; and

one or more communication devices,

the system being configured to personalize a reference associated with information about an entity using one or more codes associated with a viewing entity to generate a personalized reference with which to present the information to the viewing entity.

15. A computer program product stored on a computer operable medium, the computer program product comprising software code being effective to:

personalize a reference associated with information about an entity using one or more codes associated with a viewing entity to generate a personalized reference with which to present the information to the viewing entity.

16. The product of claim 15, wherein the one or more codes are unknown to the viewing entity.

17. The product of claim 15, wherein the reference is at least one of:

a URL, an address, a pointer, and an identifier.

18. The product of claim 15, wherein the software code being configured to personalize comprises the software code being configured to hash the reference using the one or more codes.

19. The product of claim 18, wherein the software code being configured to hash comprises the software code being configured to hash the reference using the one or more codes and one or more information-associated codes.

20. The product of claim 18, wherein the entity and the viewing entity are at least one of:

a person, a group of persons, and an organization.

21. The product of claim 18, wherein the hashing is bidirectional.