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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2015
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Spertus, Chicago, IL (US);

William E. Sobel, Jamul, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/105 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06F 21/6254 (2013.01); H04L 41/069 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for anonymizing log entries may include (1) detecting a data pattern in a group of log entries documenting events performed by at least one process executing on at least one device, (2) identifying, in the data pattern, at least one data field in the log entries that contains variable data, (3) evaluating the data field containing variable data to determine whether the data field contains sensitive data, and (4) in response to determining whether the data field contains sensitive data, applying a data-anonymization policy to the data field to anonymize the log entries. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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