Patent ID: 8458349
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system that facilitates private and secure network-based interaction comprising the following computer-implemented components: a computer-implemented interface component that receives a network-based communication originated by a user, the interface component resides within a network; a computer-implemented simulator component to recommend anonymizing of a source identity included in the network-based communication in response to determining that the anonymizing minimizes inferences made regarding the user, the determining being made based at least on a simulation of a user interaction through the network that includes the network-based communication as guided by a long-term privacy goal of the user; and a computer-implemented anonymizer component that, based at least on the recommendation from the simulator component, disguises a source identity of the network-based communication so as to minimize adverse effects on communication capabilities, and transmits the network-based communication that is disguised to a target destination outside the network, wherein the anonymizer component disguises the source identity at least by: