Patent ID: 9235325
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: defining, by a processor, a plurality of personas for a single identity, the single identity comprising a plurality of personal attributes; associating, by the processor, each of the defined personas with at least one of the plurality of personal attributes; separating, by the processor, the plurality of personas associated with the single identity based on the at least one of the plurality of personal attributes, such that a first persona of the personas is not directly linked to a second persona of the personas, unless a request has been made to explicitly associate the at least one of the plurality of personal attributes of the first persona to the second persona in a search engine; selecting, by the processor, one of the personas to use in an online interaction with the search engine; providing, by the processor, a warning in response to an attempt by an owner of the single identity to publicly provide information associated with the plurality of personas; and preventing, by the processor, access of the search engine to the associated at least one of the personal attributes, based on whether the selected one of the plurality of personas has a private online setting with respect to access by the search engine, the preventing comprising configuring the search engine to not generate search results that reveal the at least one of the plurality of personal attributes related to the plurality of personas having the private online setting for the search engine, and configuring the search engine to generate the search results that reveal the at least one of the plurality of personal attributes related to the plurality of personas having a public online setting for the search engine.