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Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 15, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey A. Schmidt, Rochester, MN (US);

Jason A. Nikolai, Rochester, MN (US);

John M. Santosuosso, Rochester, MN (US);

Adam D. Braham, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6254 (2013.01); G06Q 10/105 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Improvements in data security and privacy may be realized by receiving a service request including a social range and a requestor identity; mining a first social network to create a social graph of entities within the social range of the requestor identity, wherein the entities are represented by nodes in the social graph linked to a requestor via one or more edges, wherein a number of edges used to link a given entity to the requestor does not exceed the social range; determining whether the social graph includes at least one person matching personnel included in an organizational chart; and in response to determining that the social graph includes no persons matching the personnel included in the organizational chart, transmitting an acceptance response from a provider-side system to a client-side system.


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