The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ivy Ho, Thornhill, CA;

Diana Lau, Richmond Hill, CA;

Sik Nin Ivan Yue, Richmond Hill, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); G06F 17/2705 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processor-implemented method for policy-based search privacy is provided, including a search privacy module and one or more privacy policy configurations. The privacy policy configurations include at least one semantic domain, at least one semantic scope, at least one semantic domain database, and at least one lexical database. A web search is intercepted. The search terms in the web search are compared to the semantic domain in the privacy policy configuration. If a match is found, a query is submitted to the semantic domain database to retrieve keywords within a number of levels of the semantic domain, as specified by the semantic scope. The search privacy module generates web searches that are semantically similar to the desired web search, using the retrieved keywords. These generated web searches are submitted to the search engine along with the desired web search.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…