PROVIDING AND MANAGING PRIVACY SCORES
First Claim
1. A method for providing a privacy setting for a target user in a social network utilizing an electronic computing device, the method comprising:
- causing the electronic computing device to retrieve a current privacy setting for a common profile item, wherein the common profile item corresponds with the target user and each of a plurality of users, and wherein the common profile item is one of a plurality of common profile items;
causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting;
causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item visibility value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting and the sensitivity value for the common profile item; and
causing the electronic computing device to calculate the privacy score of the target user.
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Abstract
Methods for providing a privacy setting for a target user in a social network utilizing an electronic computing device are presented, the method including: causing the electronic computing device to retrieve a current privacy setting for a common profile item, where the common profile item corresponds with the target user and each of a number of users, and where the common profile item is one of a number of common profile items; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item visibility value for the common profile item based on the a current privacy setting and the sensitivity value for the common profile item; and causing the electronic computing device to calculate the privacy score of the target user.
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23 Claims
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1. A method for providing a privacy setting for a target user in a social network utilizing an electronic computing device, the method comprising:
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causing the electronic computing device to retrieve a current privacy setting for a common profile item, wherein the common profile item corresponds with the target user and each of a plurality of users, and wherein the common profile item is one of a plurality of common profile items; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item visibility value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting and the sensitivity value for the common profile item; and causing the electronic computing device to calculate the privacy score of the target user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computing device program product for providing a privacy setting for a target user in a social network using an electronic computing device, the computing device program product comprising:
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a computer readable medium; first programmatic instructions for retrieving a current privacy setting for a common profile item, wherein the common profile item corresponds with the target user and each of a plurality of users, and wherein the common profile item is one of a plurality of common profile items; second programmatic instructions for calculating a common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting; third programmatic instructions for retrieving the current privacy setting of the common profile item of the target user; fourth programmatic instructions for calculating a common profile item visibility value for the common profile item based on the a current privacy setting and the sensitivity value for the common profile item; and fifth programmatic instructions for calculating the privacy score of the target user. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for providing a privacy setting for a target user in a social network utilizing an electronic computing device, the method comprising:
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causing the electronic computing device to retrieve a current privacy setting for a common profile item, wherein the common profile item corresponds with the target user and each of a plurality of users, and wherein the common profile item is one of a plurality of common profile items; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting; continuing the retrieving and the calculating until the common profile item sensitivity value for each of the plurality of common profile items is calculated; causing the electronic computing device to retrieve the current privacy setting of the common profile item of the target user, causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item visibility value for the common profile item based on the a current privacy setting and the sensitivity value for the common profile item, wherein the common profile item sensitivity value and the common profile item visibility value are based on sharing between the target user and the plurality of users; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a partial privacy score of the target user, wherein the partial privacy score is a product of the common profile item sensitivity value and the common profile item visibility value; continuing the retrieving and the calculating until the partial privacy score for each of the plurality of common profile items is calculated; and causing the electronic computing device to calculate the privacy score of the target user, wherein the privacy score of the target user is a sum of the partial privacy scores.
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