Patent ID: 9477839
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method to facilitate privacy-preserving collaboration for mitigating network threats performed by a server, comprising: receiving, at the server, an encrypted data set from each entity of a plurality of entities, wherein a respective encrypted data set includes a respective encrypted data describing threats to network security; performing, by the server, a metric-computing operation for each entity of the plurality of entities, which involves performing the metric-computing operation on a respective entity's encrypted data set with the encrypted data set of other entities in the plurality of entities to compute metric values, with a respective metric value corresponding to a respective entity of the other entities in the plurality of entities; generating, by the server for each entity of the plurality of entities, a similarity matrix based on the metric values, wherein a respective row or column in the similarity matrix includes metric values computed from performing the metric-computing operation with a respective entity's encrypted data set and encrypted data sets of other entities of the plurality of entities; and returning, by the server, a row or column of metric values from the similarity matrix to each entity of the plurality of entities.