US 11,916,960 B2
Curtailing search engines from obtaining and controlling information
Sara H Basson, White Plains, NY (US); Robert George Farrell, Cornwall, NY (US); Dimitri Kanevsky, Ossining, NY (US); and Sophia Krasikov, Katonah, NY (US)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Jun. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/453,125.
Application 16/453,125 is a continuation of application No. 14/984,900, filed on Dec. 30, 2015, granted, now 10,362,060.
Prior Publication US 2019/0319988 A1, Oct. 17, 2019
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); H04W 12/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 63/20 (2013.01) [G06F 16/951 (2019.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04W 12/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for concealing searches for information stored on public networks, comprising:
splitting of a search query into one or more search queries;
transforming the one or more search queries into one or more related queries different than the one or more search queries to obscure the one or more search queries;
searching each of the one or more related queries different than the one or more search queries separately and securely; and
aggregating search results from the one or more related queries different than the one or more search queries, wherein the transforming of the one or more search queries into the one or more related queries different than the one or more search queries is with the aggregation of the search results, and wherein the aggregation of the search results is stored in a computer-readable medium.