Patent ID: 9390272
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for obscuring an existence of an intent of an organization with respect to subject matter, the method comprising: monitoring and collecting data in transit between web users of an organization and internet connected elements; extracting and processing metadata from the collected data to determine web behavior of the web users; storing, in a database, the web behavior of the web users; retrieving, using processing circuitry, from the database, the web behavior of the web users; comparing the web behavior of the web users to determine a similarity between the web behavior of the web users; generating, based on the comparison, an organization's similarity matrix indicating the similarity between the web behavior of the web users; retrieving, from storage, a desired similarity matrix indicating web behavior for the web users that meets an obfuscation constraint, wherein the obfuscation constraint indicates a desired level of obfuscation of the web behavior of the web users; generating, using the processing circuitry, a distance matrix indicating a distance between the organization's similarity matrix and the desired similarity matrix; selecting a candidate action from a plurality of candidate actions, the selected candidate action including a web behavior such that executing the web behavior would reduce the distance between the organization's similarity matrix and the desired similarity matrix; modifying the organization's similarity matrix based on the candidate action; recalculating the distance matrix using the modified organization's similarity matrix and the desired similarity matrix; determining using the recalculated distance matrix, whether the candidate action reduced the distance between the organization's similarity matrix and the desired similarity matrix; determining whether the modified organization's similarity matrix meets the obfuscation constraint based on the reduction in distance; and executing the web behavior included in the candidate action to obfuscate the web behavior of the web users.