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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:
Jul. 30, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2017
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Chen, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);

Arvind Rao, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Quentin Liu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6254 (2013.01); G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); H04L 9/3263 (2013.01); H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01);
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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