Distributed personal information aggregator

• US 20100010993A1
• Filed: 03/31/2009
• Published: 01/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peekanalytics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Peekanalytics, Inc.
• Inventors: Duggal, Baldev, Boesenberg, Timothy M., Hussey, Michael P. JR., Baranov, Pavel A., McArdle, Terrence E.
• Granted Patent: US 10,242,104 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A method of aggregating personal information available from public sources over a network. The method includes the steps of receiving at a computer server, data associated with a person, the data being publicly available over a network, and including at least a first name and a last name; using a processor to compare the received data to a plurality of data profiles stored in a database of one or more memory devices, each profile corresponding to a previously-profiled person and containing data associated with the previously-profiled person; determining whether the received data sufficiently matches data associated with the previously-profiled person of the data profile; and merging the received data with the data associated with the previously-profiled person.

Claims

1. A computerized distributed personal information aggregator, comprising:

means for storing information associated with an individual user and containing personal user information;

means for identifying websites capable of being spidered based on the personal user information in the means for storing information; and

means for validating that the personal user information for a given individual user.

2. A method of aggregating personal information available from public sources over a network, comprising:

receiving at a computer server, data associated with a person, the data being publicly available over a network, and including at least a first name and a last name;

using a processor to compare the received data to a plurality of data profiles stored in a database of one or more memory devices, each profile corresponding to a previously-profiled person and containing data associated with the previously-profiled person;

determining using the processor whether the received data sufficiently matches data associated with the previously-profiled person of the data profile; and

merging the received data with the data associated with the previously-profiled person.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising determining whether the received data is sufficient to compare the received data to the plurality of data profiles.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising assigning relative weights to portions of the received data.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising calculating a match value based on the assigned relative weights.