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Detecting personal threat data in documents stored in the cloud

  • US 10,726,154 B2
  • Filed: 11/08/2017
  • Issued: 07/28/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for detecting and presenting personal threat data in documents stored by third-party cloud-based storage services, comprising:

  • enabling, via a user interface, a user to request to have documents associated with the user that are stored on one or more third-party cloud-based storage services to be scanned for personal threat data,for each of the one or more third-party cloud-based storage services,requesting access to the documents associated with the user of the cloud-based storage service that are stored on the cloud-based storage service;

    receiving content corresponding to the documents from the third-party cloud-based storage service as one or more streams;

    for each of the one or more streams,scanning the content within the stream to detect one or more types of personal threat data; and

    presenting the personal threat data that are detected in a redacted form via the user interface, wherein the detecting of the personal threat data within the stream and the presenting of the detected personal threat data in redacted form are performed without storing any of the documents in their entirety in memory or non-volatile storage.

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