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Methods and systems for enabling analysis of communication content while preserving confidentialityMethods and systems for enabling analysis of communication content while preserving confidentiality description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090158429, Methods and systems for enabling analysis of communication content while preserving confidentiality. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/080,708, filed Mar. 15, 2005 by Marshall Van Alstyne and Jun Zhang titled: METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION CONTENT WHILE PRESERVING CONFIDENTIALITY, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/944,644 filed September 17, by Marshall Van Alstyne and Jun Zhang, titled: METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING COMMUNICATION CONTENT WHILE PRESERVING CONFIDENTIALITY, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/504,383 filed Sep. 19, 2003 by Marshall Van Alstyne and Jun Zhang, titled: A MECHANISM TO PERMIT ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION CONTENT THAT PRESERVES PERSONAL PRIVACY. All of which are hereby incorporated by reference herein. The U.S. Government may have a paid-up license in this invention, and may have the right, in limited circumstances, to require the patent owner to license others on reasonable terms as identified by the terms of NSF Career Award Grant No. IIS9876233. The present invention relates generally to analysis of communication content and, more particularly, to a system and method for enabling analysis of similarity of instances of communication content while preserving personal privacy. One of the main obstacles to testing hypotheses relating to labor and in particular white-collar labor is the difficulty of obtaining individual specific measures of input and output. Email and other forms of inter-personal communications represent a valuable and pervasive means of business, social and technical exchange. These forms of communication can provide much data for research on communities and social networks. As a measure of collaboration, information proximity, and knowledge exchange, email and other forms of inter-personal communication that can be digitized and rendered into text afford the possibility of direct observation that has many advantages over traditional self-report survey methods. Despite the rich literature and rising interest among social scholars in studying these forms of communication, there are few tools that can help researchers actually gather these forms of communication and extract status cues while handling privacy concerns. The absence of such tools greatly limits research progress in many of the social sciences. According to the present invention there is provided a system for enabling analysis of similarity of instances of communication content while preserving confidentiality, comprising: means for capturing communication content including instances of communication content that can be rendered into text; means for processing the captured communication content to adjust a level of similarity between separate instances of communication content; and means for hashing at least part of the processed communication content to obscure the actual communication content and to produce hashed tokens. According to the present invention there is also provided a method of enabling analysis of similarity of instances of communication content while preserving confidentiality, comprising: capturing communication content including instances of communication content that can be rendered into text; processing the captured communication content to adjust a level of similarity between separate instances of communication content; and hashing at least part of the processed communication content to obscure the actual communication content and to produce hashed tokens. According to the present invention there is further provided a method of visualizing a communication interaction between at least two social units, comprising: choosing a period of time; selecting at least one entire communication between at least two social units which occurred during the chosen period of time; and visually indicating when during the chosen period of time at least one of the selected entire communications occurred and a direction of the visually indicated entire communication. According to the present invention there is still further provided a method of visualizing a social network, comprising: selecting information related to a social network to visualize; and displaying a node representing a social unit at a radius whose length is reflective of the information. According to the present invention there is yet further provided a method of analyzing the similarity of communications while preserving the confidentiality of the communications, comprising: capturing at least two entire communications; processing the at least two entire communications to improve the similarity of any similar content within the at least two entire communications and to reduce the similarity of any dissimilar content within the at least two entire communications; encrypting the at least two processed communications to generate tokens which obscure the actual content and are similar in nature for similar content; and comparing the tokens to identify similar content within the at least two processed communications without determining the actual content of the least two processed communications. Continue reading about Methods and systems for enabling analysis of communication content while preserving confidentiality... 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