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Search engine with privacy protection

US9224007B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 15, 2009
Grant dateDec 29, 2015
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Expiry dateApr 4, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F21/84
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.

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