Patent ID: 8627483
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, implemented by a processing device, to perform anonymization of data through an application of noise to the data, the anonymization assessed according to a first anonymization parameter and a second anonymization parameter, the method comprising: determining, by the processing device, a desired level for the first anonymization parameter, determining, by the processing device, a range of noise parameter values constrained by the desired level for the first anonymization parameter; determining, by the processing device and from the range of noise parameter values, a value for a noise parameter of a noise model that optimizes the second anonymization parameter, applying, by the processing device, noise, generated by the noise model based on the determined value of the noise parameter, to the data to provide noise perturbed data, providing, by the processing device, the noise perturbed data to another processing device.