Patent ID: 7610407

Claim:
A method of exchanging information between at least one party and a plurality of intermediaries via an anonymizing network such that misappropriation of the information is avoided, the plurality of intermediaries including a selected intermediary, the method comprising: providing correct electronic data to the selected intermediary via the anonymizing network; providing incorrect electronic data to each of the plurality of intermediaries who are not the selected intermediary via the anonymizing network; receiving modified correct information based on the correct electronic data from the selected intermediary via the anonymizing network, wherein the selected intermediary interpreted the correct electronic data to yield the modified correct information with a data analysis program; receiving modified incorrect information based on the incorrect electronic data from each of the plurality of intermediaries who are not the selected intermediary, wherein each of the plurality of intermediaries who are not the selected intermediary interpreted the incorrect electronic data to yield the modified incorrect information with one of a plurality of analysis programs; and wherein the anonymizing network functions such that the plurality of intermediaries do not know which of the plurality of intermediaries is the selected intermediary.