Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for anonymizing user accounts
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Application No.: US15836505Application Date: 2017-12-08
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Publication No.: US10885223B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: SriHarsha Angara , Michael Lo , John Meehan , Srinivas Chillappa , Simon Tiku , Viral Mehta
- 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: G06F21/62
- IPC: G06F21/62 ; H04L9/32 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
The disclosed computer-implemented method for anonymizing user accounts may include (i) receiving an instruction to anonymize a user account to protect a user's personally identifiable information, (ii) accessing, by a security program, a settings portal for the user account in response to receiving the instruction to anonymize the user account, (iii) replacing, by the security program, original values within at least two fields within the settings portal for the user account with anonymized values to mask the user's personally identifiable information, and (iv) storing the anonymized values within a protected vault to enable the user to login to the user account. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190180053A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANONYMIZING USER ACCOUNTS Public/Granted day:2019-06-13
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