Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for protecting personally identifiable information during electronic data exchanges
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Application No.: US15437601Application Date: 2017-02-21
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Publication No.: US10366250B1Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Joseph Chen , Arvind Rao , Quentin Liu
- Applicant: Symantec Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Symantec Corporation
- Current Assignee: Symantec Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: FisherBroyles, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L9/32
- IPC: H04L9/32 ; G06F21/62 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting personally identifiable information during electronic data exchanges may include (i) receiving, from a computing device, an authentication token for a proposed electronic data exchange, (ii) preventing the user's personally identifiable information from entering the proposed electronic data exchange by identifying the user using the anonymized identifier rather than using the user's personally identifiable information, (iii) authenticating the user identified in the data exchange information, and (iv) in response to authenticating the user, authorizing completion of the proposed electronic data exchange. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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