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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2012
Dimitry Gavrilov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dimitry Gavrilov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anchorfree, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for securing personal information of a user on social networks. The method involves: receiving personal information from a user in an unencrypted textual form by a client computer; transmitting the received personal information via a secure virtual private network (VPN) connection to a dedicated VPN server/proxy; receiving the personal information at the dedicated VPN server/proxy; encrypting the received personal information at the dedicated VPN server/proxy using an encryption key; and transmitting the encrypted personal information from the dedicated VPN server/proxy to the social network. Other users of the social network also use the dedicated VPN server/proxy in order to decrypt (access) the personal information of the user, which has been encrypted as specified above.