US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on Aug. 26 for "Common data determining methods, apparatuses, and systems for protecting privacy" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,027, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Common data determining methods, apparatuses, and systems for protecting privacy" was invented by Jian Du (Hangzhou, China), Jinming Cui (Hangzhou, China), Lei Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Yufei Lu (Hangzhou, China) and Pu Duan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for protecting privacy are described. In an example, a first party encrypts a first data set, and sends a single-encrypted full data set to a second party. The second party re-encrypts the single-encrypted full data set to ob...