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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:
Jul. 28, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2009
Applicants:

Scott More, Tokyo, JP;

Ilya Beyer, San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Scott More, Tokyo, JP;

Ilya Beyer, San Mateo, CA (US);

Assignee:

WORKSHARE TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 12/585 (2013.01); H04L 63/083 (2013.01);
Abstract

A technique for efficiently preventing exact data words ('entities') from unauthorized disclosure is disclosed. Protect agents installed at various egress points identify candidate entities from digital information desired to be disclosed by a user. The candidate entities are compared against registered entities stored in a lightweight entity database (LWED). If a candidate entity matches against a registered entity in the LWED, the protect agent initiates a security action. Alternately, the protect agent transmits the matching candidate entity to a global entity database (GED) server to receive additional confirmation on whether the candidate entity matches a registered entity. In some instances, the protect agent also receives (from the GED server) metadata information associated with the matching candidate entity. The protect agent utilizes the metadata information to initiate suitable security actions.


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