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System, method, and computer program product for preventing image-related data loss

  • US 10,489,606 B2
  • Filed: 12/14/2015
  • Issued: 11/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium that includes code for execution and when executed by a processor operable to perform operations comprising:

  • extract textual data from an image;

    determine whether the image includes confidential information by determining whether a fingerprint of at least a portion of the textual data matches predetermined data, wherein the predetermined data is associated with the confidential information; and

    prevent loss of the confidential information from a network, wherein the operations further comprise;

    receive, from a sender device, a request to upload the image from the network to a remote network;

    upload the image from a sender device to a gateway in the network based on the request;

    based on determining that the image includes the confidential information;

    deny, by the gateway, the request to upload the image from the network to the remote network; and

    based on determining that the image lacks the confidential information;

    transmit, from the gateway to the sender device, data indicating that the image lacks the confidential information, andenable, at the sender device, a user control operable to upload the image from the network to the remote network.

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