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US 9,542,564 B2Granted
Personal site privacy policy
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsGregory Thomas Mattox, Jr., Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, Bryant Fong, Shunri Guo, James C. Hilke, Rachel A. Elfenbein
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Abstract
A request, from a requester, is received to view user information on a user's personal site associated with a user. A relationship is determined between the requester and the user. User information is provided to the requester based on the requester's relationship to the user.
Claims16
A method, comprising:
- receiving a change to a privacy setting of at least a portion of user information in a profile of a user stored at a server, the change received from a second user different from the user, the second user having privileges to modify the privacy settings associated with the profile such that the privacy setting is not overridden by the user associated with the profile, the privacy setting defining rights of one or more third parties to view an item included in the profile of the user;
- receiving a request at the server, from a requester, to view user information on a user's personal site associated with the user;
- determining a relationship between the requester and the user;
- and
- providing from the server the item of user information to the requester based on the requester's relationship to the user and the privacy setting.
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A system comprising:
- a server computing system including one or more computer readable media having stored computer readable instructions that, when executed by the server computing system, perform operations comprising:
- receiving a change to a privacy setting of at least a portion of user information in a profile of a user stored at the server computing system, the change received from a second user different from the user, the second user having privileges to modify the privacy settings associated with the profile such that the privacy setting is not overridden by the user associated with the profile, the privacy setting defining rights of one or more third parties to view an item included in the profile of the user;
- receiving a request at the server computing system, from a requester, to view user information on a user's personal site associated with the user;
- determining a relationship between the requester and the user;
- and
- providing from the server the item of user information to the requester based on the requester's relationship to the user and the privacy setting.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.