Patent ID: 9634997
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of providing an anonymous identity for a user, the method comprising: a processing system; receiving by the processing system a request to switch an existing account of the user previously associated with one web service for which an account is required, of a plurality of web services to a new anonymous account associated with the one web service; and providing, by the processing system in response to the switching request, new login credentials associated with the new anonymous account to the one web service, wherein the new login credentials are required to register the new anonymous account of the user with the previously associated web service, wherein the new anonymous account is randomly generated by a service different from the web service and wherein the processing system generates a different random anonymous account associated with the new login credential of the user anonymous identity for each web service of the plurality of web services when a request to switch an account is received for each web service and wherein each of the plurality of web services requires an account.