Patent ID: 9210165
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a server computing device for a social networking web site from a user via access of the social networking web site, confidential information regarding the user, the confidential information including information regarding the user that the user does not socially share on the social networking web site; associating, by the server computing device for the social networking web site, the confidential information regarding the user with a user identifier that uniquely identifies the user on the social networking web site; associating, by the server computing device for the social networking web site, the confidential information regarding the user with an export group identifier corresponding to a type of the confidential information, the export group identifier identifying the type of the confidential information regarding the user and not identifying a group that other human users of the social networking web site are able to join, the export group identifier identifying an export group that includes the confidential information regarding the user having the type to which the export group identifier corresponds; associating, by the server computing device for the social networking web site, the export group identifier with a password different from any user password the user that any user employs to gain access to the social networking web site, the password being required to access the confidential information; and associating, by the server computing device, the password with a particular third party selected by the user to access the confidential information, the password different from any password that the particular third party employs to gain access to the social networking web site, wherein the export group identifier and the password are adapted to be shared by the user to a third party to permit the third party to access the confidential information through the social networking web site using the password, where knowledge of a user name of the user, the export group identifier, and the password are required for the particular third party to input to access the confidential information once the particular third party has accessed the social networking web site, the password being different than the export group identifier, and wherein access by the particular third party to the confidential information of the user via the user name of the user, the export group identifier, and the password associated with the export group identifier does not permit the user to gain access to any confidential information of the particular third party.