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Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2014
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alexander Fabrikant, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kristen Lefevre, San Francisco, CA (US);

Gagan Aggarwal, Mountain View, CA (US);

Yaron Singer, Berkeley, CA (US);

Nitish John Korula, New York, NY (US);

Kevin Snow McCurley, San Jose, CA (US);

Lujun Fang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of setting privacy level values for a user. The method includes receiving a designation of a relative privacy level for the user and receiving a selection of a group of other users for the user. Plural sets of privacy level values are associated with the group of other users. The method also includes setting privacy level values for the user based on the designation of the relative privacy level and the plural sets of privacy level values associated with the selected group of other users.


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