SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT AWARE DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND MODIFICATION

• US 20090208142A1
• Filed: 02/19/2008
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Catlett, Sean, Treadwell, William S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,838,554 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/321
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition

Abstract

Systems, methods and consumer-readable media for providing content-aware document analysis and modification are provided. A system for analyzing document content according to the invention may include a rules server that stores a set of expressions. Such expressions may define predetermined confidential information and/or patterns of confidential expressions. The system may further include a communication plugin that provides a platform for incorporating the set of confidential expression patterns as part of a document-producing application. Following incorporation of the communication plugin, an inline document monitor module according to the invention may form part of the document-producing application. The inline document monitor may monitor for the occurrence of at least one of the set of confidential expression patterns in a document.

Claims

1. A method for analyzing a document based on the document content, the method comprising:

loading a set of rules into a document editing application, the set of rules defining a set of confidential expression patterns;

analyzing a document to determine the existence of one of the set of confidential expression patterns in the document; and

in response to the detection of one of the defined set of confidential expression patterns in the document, displaying a visual indication of the detection of one of the defined set of confidential expression patterns.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the defined set of confidential expression patterns includes a pattern comprising three numeric characters followed by a hyphen followed by two numeric characters followed by a hyphen followed by four numeric characters.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the defined set of confidential expression patterns includes a pattern comprising 9 numeric characters distributed over 11 character spaces.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising, in response to the detection of one of the defined set of confidential expression patterns in the document, modifying the detected one expression pattern to comply with a predetermined format.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising, in response to the detection of one of the defined set of confidential expression patterns in the document, modifying the detected one expression pattern to comply with a predetermined style.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising, in response to the detection of one of the defined set of confidential expression patterns in the document, modifying the detected one expression pattern to comply with a predetermined format.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising, in response to the detection of one of the defined set of confidential expression patterns in the document, redacting the detected one expression.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising redacting the set of confidential expression patterns according to a user-defined template.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising redacting the set of confidential expression patterns according to a system-defined template.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the analyzing the document occurs independent of document user knowledge.

11. A method for analyzing a document based on the document content, the method comprising:

loading into a computer a set of rules, the set of rules defining a set of expressions, the defined set of expressions including an expression of three numeric characters followed by a hyphen followed by two numeric characters followed by a hyphen followed by four numeric characters;

analyzing a document to determine the existence of one of the set of expressions in the document; and

in response to the detection of one of the defined set of expressions in the document, providing a visual indication of the detection of one of the defined set of expressions.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising, in response to the detection of one of the defined set of expressions in the document, modifying the detected one expression to comply with a predetermined format.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising, in response to the detection of one of the defined set of expressions in the document, modifying the detected one expression to comply with a predetermined style.

14. The method of claim 11 further comprising redacting the set of expressions according to a user-defined template.

15. The method of claim 11 further comprising redacting the set of expressions according to a system-defined template.

16. A system for analyzing document content, the system comprising:

a rules server that comprises a set of expressions, said expressions that define predetermined confidential information;

a communication plugin that provides a platform for incorporating the set of expressions into a document-producing application; and

an inline document monitor module that forms part of the document-producing application, the inline document monitor for monitoring for the occurrence of at least one of the set of expressions in a document.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the inline document monitor is adapted to modify the set of expressions to comply with a predetermined format.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the inline document monitor is adapted to redact the set of expressions according to a user-defined template.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein the inline document monitor is adapted to redact the set of expressions.

20. The system of claim 16 wherein the inline document monitor is adapted to redact the set of expressions according to a system-defined template.

21. The system of claim 16, the inline document monitor for monitoring the content of the document transparent to a user-awareness of the monitoring.