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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2009
Richard Chow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Philippe J. P. Golle, San Francisco, CA (US);
Runting Shi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard Chow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Philippe J. P. Golle, San Francisco, CA (US);
Runting Shi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for protecting privacy by generating artificial contextual data. The system collects real contextual data related to a user. The system then generates artificial contextual data, based on the collected real contextual data. The system also groups the generated contextual data into one or more groups. Each group of contextual data corresponds to a persona that can be presented as the user's persona. Subsequently, the system transmits the generated contextual data to an entity, thereby allowing the user to obscure the real contextual data related to the user.