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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2016
Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Curtis Villars, Chatham, NJ (US);
MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED, Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for obfuscating granular transaction data via the introduction of noise includes: storing transaction data entries, each including transaction data values including at least a transaction amount and merchant identifier; receiving a data request including selection criteria and desired metrics; identifying a subset of transaction data entries based on the selection criteria; identifying a metric value for each desired metric based on the corresponding transaction data value in each of the transaction data entries in the subset; inserting noise to modify the subset by (i) adjusting the transaction data values included in at least two of the transaction data entries, and/or (ii) adding at least one transaction data entry to and removing at least one transaction data entry from the subset, where the inserted noise adjusts the metric values within a predetermined range; and transmitting the modified subset.