Patent Document ID: 20130339359
Application ID: 13917263
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for data anonymization comprising: a computer system for electronically receiving an original dataset and allowing a user to specify a relative importance of at least one attribute of the dataset; and an anonymization program executed by the computer system for producing an anonymized dataset from the original dataset, the anonymization program executing: a vector space mapping sub-process for converting each record of the original dataset to a normalized vector that can be compared to other vectors; a hierarchical clustering sub-process for dividing the normalized vectors into disjointed k-sized groups of similar records based on a hierarchical clustering technique; a perturbation sub-process for generating anonymized clusters from individual clusters generated by the hierarchical clustering sub-process; and an original domain mapping sub-process to combine and remap anonymized clusters back to an original domain of the original dataset.