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US 12,182,153 B2Granted
Digital forensics tool and method
AssigneeMagnet Forensics Inc.
InventorsRobert Palazzo, Kerry Armistead, Andrea Dickerson, Justin Fisher, David Miles, David Smalley, Braden Thomas, Philip Thrasher
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Abstract
A digital forensics tool and associated method are disclosed for extracting digital data from a user computing device, transforming and analyzing the digital data, and generating an interactive user interface that facilitates the identification of important digital data, such as for a criminal investigation.
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A digital forensics method comprising:
- coupling one or more extraction computing devices to one or more mobile devices;
- extracting, by the one or more extraction computing devices, a first set of digital data from the one or more mobile devices;
- filtering, by the one or more extraction computing devices, the first set of digital data into a second set of digital data comprising one or more flat text files and not including certain types of data in the first set of digital data;
- receiving, by a cloud server from the one or more extraction computing devices, the second set of digital data;
- transforming, by the cloud server, the second set of digital data into a third set of digital data of a normalized format;
- analyzing, by the cloud server, the third set of digital data to generate results;
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- generating a user interface, on a user computing device, to display one or more of an interactive map derived from location data in the results, a timeline of communications to or from the one or more mobile devices contained in the results, and a network graph indicating relationships between contacts in the results and frequency of communications with contacts in the results.
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A digital forensics tool comprising:
- one or more computing devices storing instructions to perform the following steps when executed:
- extracting a first set of digital data from one or more mobile devices;
- filtering the first set of digital data into a second set of digital data comprising one or more flat text files and not including certain types of data in the first set of digital data;
- transforming the second set of digital data into a third set of digital data of a normalized format;
- analyzing the third set of digital data to generate results;
- and
- generating a user interface to display one or more of an interactive map derived from location data in the results, a timeline of communications to or from the one or more mobile devices contained in the results, and a network graph indicating relationships between contacts in the results and frequency of communications with contacts in the results.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.