Patent ID: 7885941
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of processing an input data set for use in association with a data mining process, comprising the steps of: obtaining the input data set, wherein the input data set comprises a plurality of records, one or more of the records comprising data representing more than one data dimension; iteratively placing the records into one or more groups; iteratively generating data statistics for each of the one or more groups as the records are placed into the one or more groups; generating one or more output data sets corresponding to the one or more groups based on the data statistics iteratively generated for each of the one or more groups, wherein a given one of the one or more output data sets differs from the input data set but maintains one or more correlations from within the input data set and wherein the records represented by the given one of the one or more output data sets are substantially indistinguishable from one another thereby providing privacy during the data mining process; and storing the one or more output data sets in a storage device for use in the data mining process.