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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2009
Gary W. Flake, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric I-chao Chang, Haiden District, CN;
Jason Garms, Woodinville, WA (US);
Abhiram G. Khune, Sammamish, WA (US);
Darrell Leroy Blegen, Redmond, WA (US);
Gary W. Flake, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric I-Chao Chang, Haiden District, CN;
Jason Garms, Woodinville, WA (US);
Abhiram G. Khune, Sammamish, WA (US);
Darrell Leroy Blegen, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can leverage private affinities in order to facilitate or enrich relationships between people. In particular, the architecture can receive a profile associated with a user wherein the profile includes a set of private affinities that are cryptographically protected from public inspection. The architecture can decrypt and/or cryptographically compare a private affinity from the profile to an affinity in a disparate profile (associated with a disparate user) in order to identify a matching affinity. Once a matching affinity is identified, a message indicating such can be provided to the user along with a request to publish certain revealed information to the disparate user, possibly based upon a mutual exchange of commensurate information from the disparate user.