US 11,989,319 B2
Utilizing a mnemonic for communicating sensitive data
David M. Ogle, Powell, OH (US); and Vincent Tkac, Delaware, OH (US)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Jan. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/144,413.
Application 17/144,413 is a continuation of application No. 15/400,421, filed on Jan. 6, 2017, granted, now 10,909,263.
Prior Publication US 2021/0133352 A1, May 6, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/42 (2013.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) [G06F 21/42 (2013.01); G06Q 20/38215 (2013.01); H04L 9/0618 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/061 (2013.01); H04L 2209/04 (2013.01); H04L 2209/56 (2013.01); H04M 2203/609 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
establishing, by a computing device of a caller, a telephone connection between the caller and a telephone of an agent;
sending, by the computing device of the caller, location data of the caller to the agent;
receiving, by the computing device of the caller, an encryption key from the agent, wherein the encryption key corresponds to the location data of the caller;
entering, by the computing device of the caller, the encryption key received from the agent into a mnemonic application of the computer device of the caller;
identifying, by the computing device of the caller, an indexed table of words based on the encryption key, wherein the indexed table of words corresponds to the location data of the caller to the agent;
permuting, by the computing device of the caller, an algorithm of the mnemonic application using the encryption key, thereby configuring the algorithm to encode sensitive data based on the encryption key;
receiving, by the computing device of the caller, the sensitive data in the form of an alphabetic sequence;
generating, by the algorithm of the mnemonic application of the computing device of the caller and based on the indexed table of words, a mnemonic of the sensitive data, wherein the mnemonic is a sequence of words representing the sensitive data;
displaying, by the computing device of the caller, the mnemonic to the caller; and
conveying, by the computing device of the caller, an audio communication of the mnemonic to the agent through the telephone connection to enable remote decoding of the mnemonic back into the sensitive data utilizing the encryption key.