Providing and managing privacy scores

US9704203B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 2009
• Grant date: Jul 11, 2017
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 2031

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 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.