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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2009
Tyrone W. A. Grandison, San Jose, CA (US);
Sherry Guo, Fremont, CA (US);
Kun Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Maxmilien, San Jose, CA (US);
Dwayne L. Richardson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tony Sun, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Tyrone W. A. Grandison, San Jose, CA (US);
Sherry Guo, Fremont, CA (US);
Kun Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Maxmilien, San Jose, CA (US);
Dwayne L. Richardson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tony Sun, Pleasanton, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods for providing a privacy setting for a target user in a social network utilizing an electronic computing device are presented, the method including: causing the electronic computing device to retrieve a current privacy setting for a common profile item, where the common profile item corresponds with the target user and each of a number of users, and where the common profile item is one of a number of common profile items; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item visibility value for the common profile item based on the a current privacy setting and the sensitivity value for the common profile item; and causing the electronic computing device to calculate the privacy score of the target user.