Correlating private affinities
US8763150B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 18, 2009 |
| Grant date | Jun 24, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 18, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2209/42
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can leverage private affinities in order to facilitate or enrich relationships between people. In particular, the architecture can receive a profile associated with a user wherein the profile includes a set of private affinities that are cryptographically protected from public inspection. The architecture can decrypt and/or cryptographically compare a private affinity from the profile to an affinity in a disparate profile (associated with a disparate user) in order to identify a matching affinity. Once a matching affinity is identified, a message indicating such can be provided to the user along with a request to publish certain revealed information to the disparate user, possibly based upon a mutual exchange of commensurate information from the disparate user.
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