Patent ID: 6449621
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G16H,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
A privacy data escrow system, comprising:at least one data provider having a plurality of privacy data records of a plurality of persons, each privacy data record being associated with a unique person identifier of a person, each of the at least one data provider having a unique data provider identifier associated therewith; an escrow agent in communication with the at least one data provider and operable to receive and store, from the at least one data provider, the plurality of person identifiers and a plurality of unique scrambled person identifiers each having a one-to-one relationship with one of the plurality of person identifiers, and data provider identifiers associated with each person identifier; and a database in communication with the at least one data provider and operable to receive and store, from the at least one data provider, the plurality of privacy data records, the plurality of scrambled person identifiers associated with the privacy data records, and the data provider identifiers, the database further operable to receive and store, from the escrow agent, a unique universal anonymous identifier to replace each scrambled person identifier whereby each privacy data record stored in database is identifiable by a universal anonymous identifier.