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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2008
Samuel Müller, Zürich, CH;
Dieter M. Sommer, Zürich, CH;
Samuel Müller, Zürich, CH;
Dieter M. Sommer, Zürich, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method comprising, defining a social network U={u, u', . . . }, defining a set of relationships between users OU×U, defining a set of attributes of the social network A={a, a, . . . }, defining a set of contacts of the user u, defining a user profile of the user u I=A∪U, defining a metric M={m, m, . . . }, receiving a rating of a metric of user u′ from the user u, defining a condition cεC, defining a set of elements Z={z, z, . . . }, receiving a request for access to Ifrom user u′, determining authorization for user u′ to access a subset of Iby an access control function U×U×Pow(R)×C→Pow(I×Z), and outputting a subset of Ito user u′ as determined by the access control function.