Method and system for sharing anonymous user information

Details Method and system for sharing anonymous user information Method and system for sharing anonymous user information

2011-04-19

2011-04-19

Worjloh, Jalatee (Department: 3685)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Business processing using cryptography

Secure transaction

C705S050000, C705S051000, C705S052000, C705S053000, C705S064000, C707S793000, C709S228000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07930252

ABSTRACT:
A method and system for sharing online user information in an anonymous manner. The system associates an identifier with anonymized information of the user, and sends the anonymized user information to a receiving party.In one embodiment, the system receives a temporary id with personally identifiable information from a Web site, uses the personally identifiable information as a key to obtain the anonymized information from a data source, and sends the temporary id with the anonymized information to the receiving party. The receiving party uses the temporary id, previously received by the Web site, as a key to obtain the anonymized information of the user.In another embodiment, the system receives a temporary id from a Web site with a cookie from the user, uses the cookie as a key to obtain the anonymized information from a data source, and sends the temporary id with the anonymized information to the receiving party. The receiving party uses the temporary id, previously received by the Web site, as a key to obtain the anonymized information of the user.

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