US 11,394,677 B2Granted

Systems and methods for screening electronic communications

AssigneeCapital One Services, LLC

InventorsAustin Walters, Jeremy Goodsitt, Reza Farivar, Vincent Pham

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Abstract

According to certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method computer-implemented method may be used for screening electronic communications. The method may comprise analyzing contents of an electronic communication to determine whether the contents include sensitive information. A recipient list of the electronic communication may be compared to a screening list. Based on the analyzing and the comparing, it may be determined whether the contents are permitted to be transmitted to the recipient list. Upon determining that the contents are not permitted to be transmitted to at least one party of the recipient list, a notification may be provided to an author of the electronic communication indicating that contents are not permitted to be transmitted to the at least one party of the recipient list.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, with a processor of a computing device associated with a sender or with a processor of a computing device in communication with the computing device associated with the sender, electronic communication data that includes content data and a recipient list;
in response to receiving, via the processor, an indication that a selection tool of the computing device is positioned over a button of a graphical user interface associated with sending the electronic communication data, determining, with the processor, whether each and every recipient in the recipient list is permitted to receive the content data included in the received electronic communication data by:
identifying whether the content data includes at least one category of data associated with at least one respective access restriction rule;
and
in response to the identifying, determining, with the processor, whether respective content access permission data for each and every recipient of the recipient list complies with the at least one respective access restriction rule associated with the identified at least one category of data;
and
in response to determining that the respective content access permission data for at least one recipient in the recipient list does not comply, causing, with the processor, the computing device associated with the sender to:
disable the button of the graphical user interface and update a display of the button so as to indicate that the button is disabled;
block the electronic communication data from being transmitted to the recipient list;
and
provide a notification indicating that at least one recipient in the recipient list is not permitted to receive at least a portion of the content data.

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A computer-implemented method for screening electronic communications, the method comprising:

using a processor of a computing device associated with a party desiring to send an electronic communication or a processor of a computing device in network communication with the computing device associated with the party desiring to send the electronic communication, responsive to receiving an indication that a selection tool of the computing device is positioned over a button of a graphical user interface associated with sending the electronic communication data, analyzing a domain name of an email address of at least one party listed on a recipient list of the electronic communication;
using the analysis of the domain name, classifying the at least one party listed on the recipient list based on types of content that the at least one party is permitted to receive as defined by data access permissions of the at least one party listed on the recipient list;
analyzing contents of the electronic communication to determine whether the contents violate the data access permissions of the at least one party listed on the recipient list;
and
upon determining that the contents of the electronic communication violate the data access permissions of the at least one party listed on the recipient list, causing the computing device associated with the party desiring to send the electronic communication to:
disable the button of the graphical user interface and update a display of the button so as to indicate that the button is disabled;
block the electronic communication data from being transmitted to the recipient list;
and
output a notification indicating that at least one party listed on the recipient list is not permitted to receive the contents of the electronic communication.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/996,101Filed 18 Aug 2020 · continuation
Priority: 22 Jul 2019
Published: US 2021/0029068 A128 Jan 2021
Granted: 19 Jul 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

H04L 51/212
Monitoring or handling of messages: using filtering or selective blocking
G06F 21/62
Protecting data: protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
G06F 21/6263
Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes: during internet communication, e.g. revealing personal data from cookies
G06F 40/20
Handling natural language data: natural language analysis