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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2008
Matthew Farrow, Canton, MA (US);
Malay Kundu, Lexington, MA (US);
Joshua Migdal, Wayland, MA (US);
Vikram Srinivasan, Billerica, MA (US);
Matthew Farrow, Canton, MA (US);
Malay Kundu, Lexington, MA (US);
Joshua Migdal, Wayland, MA (US);
Vikram Srinivasan, Billerica, MA (US);
NCR Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A computer system monitors a private network for presence of data traffic. In one embodiment, the private network is a retail environment in which a customer purchases an item scanned at a point-of-sale terminal. The data traffic can be point-of-sale transaction information generated in response to purchase of the item at the point-of-sale terminal. Subsequent to detecting presence of the data traffic in the network, the computer system analyzes the data traffic to identify private information in the data traffic. To protect the private information from improper disclosure to unauthorized entities, the computer system modifies the data traffic. Thus, techniques herein can include detecting occurrence of one or more point-of-sale events in a private network, anonymizing the event information (e.g., data traffic), and forwarding the anonymized event information associated with the point-of-sale events out of the private network to a remote resource.