US 11,876,837 B2
Network privacy policy scoring
Brent VanLoo, Forest Grove, OR (US); Christopher Semke, Portland, OR (US); and Doug Pollack, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to IDENTITY THEFT GUARD SOLUTIONS, INC., Portland, OR (US)
Filed by IDENTITY THEFT GUARD SOLUTIONS, INC., Portland, OR (US)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/984,559.
Application 17/984,559 is a continuation of application No. 17/071,313, filed on Oct. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,563,778.
Prior Publication US 2023/0067728 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/20 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a memory that stores instructions; and
one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a client device, a uniform resource locator (URL) of a web site accessed by the client device;
accessing text describing a privacy policy associated with the URL;
identifying a set of phrases within the text, each phrase of the set of phrases having a corresponding score component;
determining, based on the score components corresponding to the phrases of the set of phrases, a score for the privacy policy, the score components comprising a score component for data ownership; and
based on the score for the privacy policy and a comparison to a predetermined reference, causing an informational message to be presented on a display device associated with the client device.