Providing and managing privacy scores

US10789656B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Sherry Guo · San Jose, US
• Tony Sun · Pleasanton, US
• Dwayne L. Richardson · San Francisco, US
• Eugene Michael Maximilien · Raleigh, US
• Kun Liu · Beijing, CN
• Tyrone W. A. Grandison · Armonk, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 9, 2017
• Grant date: Sep 29, 2020
• Expiry date: Dec 8, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods for providing a privacy setting for a target user relative to relationships with a number of other users 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 the number of other users, and where the common profile item is one of a number of common profile items; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a pseudo-common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy settings of the target user and the number of other users; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a final common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting.