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New Jersey Institute of Technology Assigned Patent
[August 08, 2013]

New Jersey Institute of Technology Assigned Patent


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,504,481) developed by Sara Gatmir Motahari, Kearny, N.J., and Quentin Jones, New Brunswick, N.J., for a "system and method for protecting user privacy using social inference protection techniques." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for protecting user privacy using social inference protection techniques is provided. The system executes a plurality of software modules which model of background knowledge associated with one or more users of the mobile computing devices; estimate information entropy of a user attribute which could include identity, location, profile information, etc.; utilize the information entropy models to predict the social inference risk; and minimize privacy risks by taking a protective action after detecting a high risk." The patent application was filed on July 22, 2009 (12/507,508). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=85,04,481.PN.&OS=PN/85,04,481&RS=PN/85,04,481 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.



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