System, method, and business methods for enforcing privacy preferences on personal-data exchanges across a network

• Main Authors: CHESS CATHERINE A, SINGH MONINDER, HOCH ROBERT L, LIU XUAN, KESDOGAN DOGAN, BOHRER KATHRYN A, SCHONBERG EDITH G, KARAT JOHN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.05.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A system, method, and business method is used to enforce privacy preferences on exchanges of personal data over a computer network. There are one or more data-subject (subject) rule sets that have one or more subject constraints on one or more private, subject data releases. A receiving process receives a request message from a data-requester (requester) over a network interfaces. The request message has one or more requests for one or more of the private, subject data releases pertaining to a subject, and a requester privacy statement for each of the respective private data. A release process compares the requester privacy statement to the subject constraints (authorization rules) and releases the private, subject data release in a response message to the requester only if the subject constraints are satisfied.