Adaptive communication anonymization

摘要

A system and computer program product identifies anonymized parties in a transmitted communication. A sender replaces one or more communication party identifiers in control data within a communication with one or more anonymized identifiers before transmitting the communication to one or more recipients of the communication. A recipient receiving the communication searches a local lookup table by an anonymized identifier for a corresponding non-anonymized identifier which identifies a party of the communication. In response to identifying a corresponding non-anonymized identifier, the recipient then replaces the anonymized identifier with the corresponding communication party identifier and presents the recipient with the non-anonymized identifiers within the communication.

主权项

1. A communication receiver system, comprising:
a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor and which includes logic that when executed on the processor enables the communication receiver system to:
receive a communication from a sender in which one or more communication party identifiers in the communication that identify at least one of a sender and one or more recipients has been replaced with one or more anonymized identifiers prior to the communication being transmitted to the one or more recipients, wherein the communication receiver system is associated with a particular recipient from among the one or more recipients;search within a local lookup table for one or more non-anonymized identifiers corresponding to the one or more anonymized identifiers; andin response to identifying the one or more non-anonymized identifiers:
perform, via a receiver handshake controller, a handshake with the sender to confirm that a sender identifier of the one or more non-anonymized identifiers identifies the sender;in response to the confirming the identity of the sender, replace, via a receiver controller, the one or more anonymized identifiers in the communication with the one or more non-anonymized identifiers; andin response to replacing the one or more anonymized identifiers in the communication with the one or more non-anonymized identifiers, present, to the particular recipient, the communication with the one or more non-anonymized identifiers.