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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2006
Stephen James Crane, Bristol, GB;
Richard James Smith, Bristol, GB;
Stephen James Crane, Bristol, GB;
Richard James Smith, Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A data-handling system () is arranged to scan through data it holds for instances of sensitive information as identified by reference () to a set of sensitive-information identifiers held by the system. Each identifier identifies one or more items of sensitive information () and is so formed or protected as to not reveal any such item. Following an instance of sensitive information being found by the scan, it is replaced by a reference to an instance of the corresponding sensitive-information item () held in protected storage (). As a result, in due course the only instances of, sensitive information held by the system () will be those in the protected storage ().