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System for monitoring personal computer documents for sensitive data

  • US 7,861,301 B2
  • Filed: 01/12/2009
  • Issued: 12/28/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for electronically securing text transmitted over a computer network, comprising:

  • a communications module, wherein the communications module is coupled to the computer network, and wherein the communications module is at least configured to transmit text;

    at least one application, wherein the at least one application is at least configured to allow the user to generate text;

    a parsing function at an OSI layer, wherein the OSI layer is Layer 1 or Layer 3, and wherein the parsing function analyzes transmitted text for sensitive databy scanning with a word comparator to determine if the text generated by the at least one application contains sensitive data,by notifying a user if text generated by the at least one application contains sensitive data before transmission, andby autostripping to automatically delete detected sensitive data; and

    a processor, wherein the processor is at least configuredto operate the at least one application,to transmit text generated by the at least one application, andto employ the parsing function on text generated by the at least one application.

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