Method and apparatus for authenticating location-based services without compromising location privacy

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9043927
APP PUB NO 20140090023A1
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13769846

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A method and an apparatus for authenticating location-based services without compromising location privacy, which comprises a comprehensive solution that preserves unconditional location privacy when authenticating either range queries using three authentication schemes for R-tree and grid-file index, together with two optimization techniques, or k-nearest neighbor queries using two authentication schemes for R-tree and Voronoi Diagram index.

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HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITYKOWLOON TONG KOWLOON HONG KONG

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Chen, Qian Hong Kong, HK 416 1749
Hu, Haibo Hong Kong, HK 28 132
Xu, Jianliang Hong Kong, HK 7 56

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