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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
May. 01, 2009
Yan Yu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Chu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Chung-man Tam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steve Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ravi Jain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tu Tsao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Lambert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yan Yu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Chu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Chung-Man Tam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steve Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ravi Jain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tu Tsao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Lambert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer program product has a computer-readable storage medium having computer program instructions embodied therein for performing a method for implementing a privacy policy for a user. The method may include the user developing rules that determine whether another user (requester) can access information related to the user. The rules may be stored in a database coupled to a server and evaluated when a request is received from the requester to access the information. If a rule is satisfied by the requester, the server can return the information to the requester. The information can be returned at a level of granularity specified by the user in the satisfied rule. A privacy level can be set by the user to allow access to requesters based on the rules or to deny access to any requesters.