ASSOCIATING ANONYMOUS INFORMATION TO PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IN A NON-IDENTIFIABLE MANNER

The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques used in methods, systems, and computer program products for associating anonymous information to personally identifiable information without sharing any personally identifiable information. A method receives a specification record...

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Hauptverfasser: WIENER DAVID ABRAHAM, TAWAKOL OMAR
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques used in methods, systems, and computer program products for associating anonymous information to personally identifiable information without sharing any personally identifiable information. A method receives a specification record comprising one or more specified demographic attributes to be used in user record selection operations, the results of which operations include user records that comprise a user identifier and at least some non-personally-identifiable information. A candidate group is formed by applying a set of rules over the retrieved user records to reject-out one or more user records that comprise mutually-exclusive characteristics with respect to the other user records in the candidate group. An anonymity measure is calculated over the candidate group to satisfy a threshold of anonymity. If needed to satisfy the threshold of anonymity, additional user records are added to the group before any sharing operations. Anonymity of the users is preserved.