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US 2015/0106951 A1Published application
Obscuring Internet Tendencies
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorSteven J Simske
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are techniques for obscuring Internet tendencies. It is determined whether a user tends to access a category of information over the Internet more than an average user. If the user accesses the category of information over the Internet more than the average user, a user profile associated with the user is adjusted such that the user profile is proportional to an average user profile associated with the average user.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- at least one user profile, each user profile comprising a plurality of values, each value representing a tendency of a user to access a category of information over an Internet;
- an average user profile comprising a plurality of averages, each average representing an average tendency of a plurality of users to access the category of information over the Internet;
- a processor to:
- determine whether a value of the plurality of values indicates that the user tends to access the category of information over the Internet more than the average tendency for the category of information;
- and
- if the value indicates that the user tends to access the category of information over the Internet more than the average, adjust each value in a user profile associated with the user such that each value is proportional to the average tendency for the category of information corresponding thereto in order to obscure the tendency of the user.
3 more elements
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored therein which, if executed, cause a processor to:
- determine whether a user tends to category of information an Internet more than an average user;
- and
- if the user accesses the category of information over the Internet more than the average user, adjust a user profile associated with the user such that the user profile is proportional to an average user profile associated with the average user.
A method comprising:
- determining, using a processor, whether a value in a user profile indicates that a user associated therewith tends to access a category of information over an Internet more than an average user, the average user being associated with an average user profile:
- and
- if the value in the user profile indicates that the user associated therewith accesses the category of information over the Internet more than the average user, adjusting, using the processor, each value in the user profile such that each value in the user profile is proportional to each corresponding value in the average user profile, each value in the user profile being associate with a category of information accessed by the user over the Internet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.