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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
May. 31, 2011
Alan B. Butt, Orem, UT (US);
Nathan K. Stocks, Orem, UT (US);
Alan B. Butt, Orem, UT (US);
Nathan K. Stocks, Orem, UT (US);
SecurityMetrics, Inc., Orem, UT (US);
Abstract
A data string that includes potentially sensitive information, such as an account number for a payment card, may be evaluated using a delimiter search to provide an increased level of confidence that the data string encodes the sensitive information of interest. A delimiter search may include an evaluation of the bytes adjacent to the beginning and end of the data to determine whether or not those bytes have values that correspond to the values of known delimiters. A data string that is not surrounded by known delimiters may be disregarded (i.e., considered not to comprise sensitive information of interest), while a data string that is surrounded by known delimiters may warrant further evaluation.