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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:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Olivia Choudhury, Cambridge, MA (US);

Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Waltham, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6254 (2013.01); G06F 16/24573 (2019.01); G06F 16/288 (2019.01); G06F 21/6227 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an approach for anonymizing data, a processor receives a mixed-type dataset with at least two relational attributes and at least one textual attribute. A processor runs the mixed-type dataset through a text annotator to discover a set of personally identifiable information (PII). A processor creates a set of ghost attributes to add to the mixed-type dataset. A processor anonymizes data of the at least two relational attributes and the set of ghost attributes. A processor replaces each PII in the textual attribute with the corresponding anonymized data in the at least two relational attributes or the set of ghost attributes to create an anonymized mixed-type dataset. A processor removes the set of ghost attributes from the anonymized mixed-type dataset. A processor shuffles records of the anonymized mixed-type dataset to create a shuffled anonymized mixed-type dataset. A processor outputs the shuffled anonymized mixed-type dataset.


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