Correlating private affinities

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8763150
APP PUB NO 20110055930A1
SERIAL NO

12487020

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The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can leverage private affinities in order to facilitate or enrich relationships between people. In particular, the architecture can receive a profile associated with a user wherein the profile includes a set of private affinities that are cryptographically protected from public inspection. The architecture can decrypt and/or cryptographically compare a private affinity from the profile to an affinity in a disparate profile (associated with a disparate user) in order to identify a matching affinity. Once a matching affinity is identified, a message indicating such can be provided to the user along with a request to publish certain revealed information to the disparate user, possibly based upon a mutual exchange of commensurate information from the disparate user.

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  • MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Blegen, Darrell Leroy Redmond, US 4 117
Chang, Eric I-Chao Haiden District, CN 20 723
Flake, Gary W Bellevue, US 163 8151
Garms, Jason Woodinville, US 125 2128
Khune, Abhiram G Sammamish, US 6 242

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