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Patent No.:

US 8959097 B1

PDFFull Text
Expired
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2010

Privacy-preserving method for skimming of data from a collaborative infrastructure

Applicants:

Catalina M. Danis, Mount Vernon, NY (US);

Thomas D. Erickson, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Mary E. Helander, White Plains, NY (US);

Wendy A. Kellogg, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Rhonda Rosenbaum, Millwood, NY (US);

David S. Singer, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Calvin B. Swart, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Inventors:

Catalina M. Danis, Mount Vernon, NY (US);

Thomas D. Erickson, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Mary E. Helander, White Plains, NY (US);

Wendy A. Kellogg, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Rhonda Rosenbaum, Millwood, NY (US);

David S. Singer, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Calvin B. Swart, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:

Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

Daniel P. Morris, Esq.

Primary Examiner:

Dung K Chau

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06F 17/30507 (2013.01); G06F 17/30563 (2013.01); G06F 17/3069 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for harvesting collaboration data in accordance with a privacy policy is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises defining a privacy policy for collaboration data, said privacy policy including a list of fields associated with the collaboration data to be harvested; harvesting the collaboration data associated with the fields specified as allowable under the privacy policy; transforming the collaboration data associated with the fields specified as allowable if said collaboration data can be transformed in accordance with a set of rules defined in the privacy policy; and storing the harvested collaboration data in a database.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Danis, Catalina. (2015). Privacy-preserving method for skimming of data from a collaborative infrastructure (U.S. Patent No. 8959097). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8959097

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