Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
Privacy-protected search
Privacy-protected search is described, including obtaining a set of search results responsive to a search input from a first user; determining, from the search results and based on a social graph, that a first search result associated with a second user is indicated as keeping an identity of the second user hidden; determining whether other search results in the set are indicated as keeping respective identities of associated other users hidden; calculating a score for the first search result based at least on the determinations, the score indicates the likelihood of the first user guessing the identity of the second user; and determining whether to provide to the first user the first search result based on the score for the first search result.
GOOGLE INC.
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Xincheng Jia
Zhang Liu