Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Protecting privacy in an online setting
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Application No.: US14872954Application Date: 2015-10-01
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Publication No.: US09843584B2Publication Date: 2017-12-12
- Inventor: Adam T. Clark , Jeffrey K. Huebert , Aspen L. Payton , John E. Petri
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/60
- IPC: G06F21/60 ; H04L29/06 ; G06F17/30 ; G06F21/62

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving digital content associated with an account identifier, parsing the digital content and extracting a set of attributes from the digital content, receiving via a network connection, from each of a plurality of online identity services, a set of identities matching at least one attribute of the set of attributes, intersecting the sets of identities to create a set of candidate identities, computing a score for each identity in the set of candidate identities, wherein each score reflects a likelihood that the respective candidate identity is associated with the account identifier; and returning a ranked list of the scored candidate identities and an indication of at least one item of evidence linking the respective candidate identity to the account identifier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170099291A1 PROTECTING PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE SETTING Public/Granted day:2017-04-06
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