US 12,141,323 B2
Processing personally identifiable information from a schema
Matthew R Fleck, Pleasant Hill, CA (US)
Assigned to Anonomatic, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by Anonomatic, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/474,463.
Application 17/474,463 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/104,583, filed on Nov. 25, 2020, granted, now 11,387,998.
Prior Publication US 2022/0164478 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/6254 (2013.01) [G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06F 21/6227 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for improving electronic data security including:
receiving, at a server, a record containing personally identifiable information (PII), said server coupled to a network, and said record including at least one data field;
receiving at the server schema information;
identifying, from a structured data store, a unique identifier associated with one or more fields in the record in response to the schema information;
modifying the unique identifier to create a pseudo-identifier by altering the unique identifier to indicate an incorrect record;
querying the structured data source with the pseudo-identifier, and
returning, via the network, the response to said querying for each record.