Patent ID: 8725714

Claim:
A method for performing private information requests on a personal computing device, comprising: a) entering an original information request on said personal computing device, wherein said original information request is a search query for information available over the Internet containing a plurality of readable words; b) a camouflaging engine operated on and by said personal computing device changing said search query and producing a sanitized search query by removing or replacing one or more readable words from said search query when said one or more readable words matches a word in a list of pre-defined readable words, and wherein said replacing involves replacing said one or more readable words with a readable word from a lookup table; c) an information request submission engine operated by and on said personal computing device submitting said set of readable words of said sanitized search query to an Internet accessible search engine; d) said Internet accessible search engine operated by a computer system generating a search result, wherein said search result is the computer system generated result of applying said sanitized search query to said Internet accessible search engine; e) a receiving engine operated by and on said personal computing device receiving said search result from said Internet accessible search engine; f) a filtering engine operated by and on said personal computing device filtering said search result, wherein said filtering engine filters said search results based on said original information request to then obtain a filtered search result for said original information request; and g) displaying said filtered search result for said original information request on said personal computing device.