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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2016
Captricity, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Kuang Chen, Oakland, CA (US);
Hui Peng Hu, Berkeley, CA (US);
Yoriyasu Yano, Oakland, CA (US);
Nicholas Andre Jalbert, Berkeley, CA (US);
CAPTRICITY, INC., Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for storing and/or digitizing documents that preserves the confidentiality of the documents. The technology includes a process, referred to herein as 'shredding', that extracts portions of a digitized document, such as a scanned document or an image file, to create 'shreds.' A shred can be, for example, a field of a form, a portion of a photo, etc. In some embodiments where the source document includes confidential information, each individual shred does not include the confidential information and, with information of only one shred, a person cannot obtain the confidential information. As a result, while the source document needs to be stored in a secure fashion to prevent disclosure of the confidential information, the shreds can be stored in a non-secure fashion without risking disclosure of the confidential information.