US 12,008,140 B2
Privacy personas using synthetic personally identifiable information
Armin Wasicek, El Cerrito, CA (US); Juyong Do, Cupertino, CA (US); and Rajarshi Gupta, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Avast Software s.r.o., Prague (CZ)
Filed by Avast Software s.r.o., Prague (CZ)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/586,734.
Prior Publication US 2021/0097201 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 21/6254 (2013.01) [G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors into a non-transitory machine-readable medium, a form having one or more fields for receiving personally identifying information (PII);
receiving, by the one or more processors, input data for the form, the input data comprising source PII;
modelling, by the one or more processors, the characteristics of the source PII to generate a model associated with the form;
generating, by the one or more processors, synthetic PII based, at least in part, the source PII and the model;
providing, by the one or more processors, the synthetic PII to the one or more fields of the form;
receiving, by the one or more processors, a distortion indicator via a user interface element associated with the one or more fields of the form, wherein the user interface element is a knob or a slider actuated by a user to indicate how much to distort data associated with one or more fields of the form wherein generating the synthetic PII comprises generating the synthetic PII based, at least in part, on the distortion indicator; and
determining, by the one or more processors, whether the received PII for the one or more fields is fake, and determining, by the one or more processors, whether the synthetic PII for the one or more fields is plausible.