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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2011
Saikat Guha, Karnataka, IN;
Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Karnataka, IN;
Mudit Jain, Rajasthan, IN;
Ankush Jain, Rajasthan, IN;
Saikat Guha, Karnataka, IN;
Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Karnataka, IN;
Mudit Jain, Rajasthan, IN;
Ankush Jain, Rajasthan, IN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are technologies pertaining to protecting user privacy in connection with attribute-based matching services. A user registers with a platform that includes a plurality of non-collaborating partitions, where registration includes transmitting a message to the platform that indicates that the user has one or more attributes corresponding thereto. Through selective encryption and a communications protocol amongst the partitions, none of the partitions are able to ascertain that the user has the attributes. Acting in conjunction, however, the plurality of partitions perform rich attribute.