发明名称 System and method for securing user information on social networks
摘要 A computer-implemented method for securing personal information of a user on social networks. The method involves: receiving personal information from a user in an unencrypted textual form by a client computer; transmitting the received personal information via a secure virtual private network (VPN) connection to a dedicated VPN server/proxy; receiving the personal information at the dedicated VPN server/proxy; encrypting the received personal information at the dedicated VPN server/proxy using an encryption key; and transmitting the encrypted personal information from the dedicated VPN server/proxy to the social network. Other users of the social network also use the dedicated VPN server/proxy in order to decrypt (access) the personal information of the user, which has been encrypted as specified above.
申请公布号 US9160722(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.10.13
申请号 US201213460621 申请日期 2012.04.30
申请人 Anchorfree, Inc. 发明人 Gavrilov Dimitry
分类号 H04L9/32;G06F21/00;G06F7/04;G06F17/00;H04L29/06;G06F21/31 主分类号 H04L9/32
代理机构 TransPacific Law Group 代理人 TransPacific Law Group ;Pogodin, Esq. Pavel I.
主权项 1. A computer-implemented method for securing personal information of a user, the method comprising: a. receiving, from the user, personal information, separate and distinct from login credentials of the user, in an unencrypted textual form by a client computer; b. transmitting the received personal information, separate and distinct from login credentials of the user, via a secure virtual private network (VPN) connection to a dedicated VPN server/proxy; c. receiving the personal information, separate and distinct from login credentials of the user, at the dedicated VPN server/proxy; d. encrypting at least a portion of the received personal information, separate and distinct from login credentials of the user, at the dedicated VPN server/proxy using an encryption key; e. transmitting the encrypted personal information, separate and distinct from login credentials of the user, from the dedicated VPN server/proxy to a social networking service, wherein the encryption key or a corresponding decryption key are not available to the social networking service; f. establishing a VPN secure network connection between a second client computer and the dedicated VPN server/proxy; g. receiving, by the second user computer, a request from the second user, for the personal information; h. requesting, responsive to the received request, by the dedicated VPN server/proxy, the personal information from the social networking service; i. receiving, at the dedicated VPN server/proxy, the personal information from the social networking service; j. decrypting, at the dedicated VPN server/proxy, the received personal information; and k. transmitting the received personal information via a secure virtual private network (VPN) connection to the second user computer.
地址 Menlo Park CA US