FIGURE 02 is a diagram providing an overview of the
system and method 0110, broken into components to facilitate learning by a person of
ordinary skill in the art. It is a standard practice in information technology to
determine what are the desired outputs from a system and the required inputs, then
to establish the processing structures, and the intervening procedures / steps / algorithms
required to create those outputs.
Hence FIGURE 02 refers first to four inputs. User control
selections 0210 are required as input to the system and method 0110 each time that the user
wishes to privatize a set of original data files 0220; these user control selections 0210
are detailed in FIGURES 03 through 06. The second input is a set (one or a multiplicity)
of original data files 0220 which are deemed vulnerable to data mining and other abuses;
aspects of original data files 0220 are detailed in FIGURE 07. The third input to the
system and method 0110 is a set of random tables 0230; see FIGURE 08. Other
prerequisite inputs 0240 are set forth in FIGURE 09.
FIGURE 02 next introduces three outputs from the system
and method to privatize data 0110. Composite files 0250 are introduced in FIGURE 10. The
one index file 0260 is analyzed in FIGURE 11. The reconstitution file or files 0270 are
examined in increasing detail in FIGURES 12 through 15. Note in passing that two outputs
together (from 2 to 120 composite files 0250, together with one index file 0260)
comprise a privacy protected archive 0261. One privacy protected archive 0261 is
created each time the system and method to privatize computer data is run.
FIGURE 02 turns then to how the inputs are transformed
into the outputs. Interim objects 0280 are detailed in FIGURE 16. The steps in processing
0290 to privatize computer data are expanded in FIGURES 17 to 21.
