Program, classification method and system

A system and method classifies multiple pieces of private data owned by multiple entities according to data type. Each of the entities has an encryption key. A representative entity is selected that is representative of the entities owning data of the type. Data of each of the representative entity...

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Main Authors Sakuma, Jun, Uramoto, Naohiko
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.10.2010
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Summary:A system and method classifies multiple pieces of private data owned by multiple entities according to data type. Each of the entities has an encryption key. A representative entity is selected that is representative of the entities owning data of the type. Data of each of the representative entity and a target entity is encrypted and the encrypted data is exchanged between the entities. Each piece of the encrypted data that the target entity has obtained is re-encrypted by using its own encryption key to obtain data , and the encrypted data that the representative entity has obtained is re-encrypted by using its own encryption key to obtain data . If data of the representative entity matches data , it is determined that the representative entity and the target entity have data of an identical type.