Patent ID: 8135621
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for supporting anonymous transactions in a network of clients, comprising: a profile memory operable to store a non-anonymous profile associated with a first client, the non-anonymous profile including identifying client data and non-identifying client data associated with the first client; a rules memory operable to store a business rule for identifying a first portion of the non-anonymous profile as having the identifying client data and a second portion of the non-anonymous profile as having the non-identifying client data, wherein the identifying client data includes data that is unique to a particular client and wherein the non-identifying data includes data that is not unique to any particular client; a processor communicatively coupled to the rules memory, the profile memory, a database interface, and an instruction memory, the instruction memory including instructions, executable by the processor, to: the database interface operable to receive the first order from the second client and access the anonymous profile associated with the first client; and a network interface operable to communicate the second order to the first client.