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- Patent Title: Data protection via aggregation-based obfuscation
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Application No.: US16760033Application Date: 2018-10-28
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Publication No.: US11468186B2Publication Date: 2022-10-11
- Inventor: Rongrong Dong , Michael McBurnett , Nikhil Paradkar
- Applicant: EQUIFAX INC.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
- Current Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Kiipatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2018/057965 WO 20181028
- International Announcement: WO2019/089439 WO 20190509
- Main IPC: G06F21/62
- IPC: G06F21/62

Abstract:
In some aspects, a computing system can obfuscate sensitive data based on data aggregation. A sensitive database containing sensitive data records can be joined with a grouping database containing a group identifier. The joining can be performed through a linking key that links a sensitive data record with a grouping data record in the grouping database. A grouping identifier can thus be obtained for each of the sensitive data record. The sensitive data records can be aggregated into aggregation groups based on their respective values of the group identifier. Statistics are calculated for the sensitive attributes of the sensitive data records in each aggregation group and are included in the aggregated data as the obfuscated version of the sensitive data. The aggregated data can be utilized to serve data queries from entities authorized or unauthorized to access the sensitive data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200265155A1 DATA PROTECTION VIA AGGREGATION-BASED OBFUSCATION Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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