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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:
Mar. 08, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2019
Applicant:

Ca, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Chen, Culver City, CA (US);

QuBo Song, Playa Vista, CA (US);

Chris Houston, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

CA, Inc., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for utilizing metadata for protecting against the sharing of images in a computing network may include (i) identifying an image file stored in a public folder on a computing device, (ii) storing a copy of the image file within a secure data storage application, (iii) encoding metadata for revealing an image in the image file, (iv) performing a security action that protects against sharing the image file from the public folder by masking the image in the image file with the encoded metadata, and (v) rendering the image in the image file as an unmasked version of the image from the image file or the copy of the image file in the secure data storage application by decoding the metadata utilized to mask the image. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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