Patent Document ID: 8458349
Application ID: 13156210
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system that facilitates private and secure network-based interaction comprising the following computer-implemented components: a computer-implemented interface component that receives a network-based communication originated by a user, the interface component resides within a network; a computer-implemented simulator component to recommend anonymizing of a source identity included in the network-based communication in response to determining that the anonymizing minimizes inferences made regarding the user, the determining being made based at least on a simulation of a user interaction through the network that includes the network-based communication as guided by a long-term privacy goal of the user; and a computer-implemented anonymizer component that, based at least on the recommendation from the simulator component, disguises a source identity of the network-based communication so as to minimize adverse effects on communication capabilities, and transmits the network-based communication that is disguised to a target destination outside the network, wherein the anonymizer component disguises the source identity at least by: monitoring network traffic on the network to determine that the user has set preference information for the target destination via a specific cookie value in a current cookie, the preference information enabling the user to conduct a particular type of search query on the target destination, and automatically replacing the current cookie with a new cookie that includes the specific cookie value to hold the preference information to enable the user to repeat the particular type of search query on the target destination via the preference information.