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US 2014/0280261 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for substitution scheme for anonymizing personally identifiable information
AssigneePathAR, LLC
InventorsPatrick David Butler, Tony Brett Marshall, Mark F. Jacobson
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Abstract
In some embodiments, a system includes a software program capable of performing an aliasing function on the personally identifiable information (“PII”) of a subject. The software can associate the alias with the PII, and output the alias rather than the PII.
Claims17
A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor, the code comprising code to cause the processor to:
- perform an aliasing function on personally identifiable information of a subject to produce an alias;
- associate the alias with the personally identifiable information;
- and
- send a signal representing the alias and not the personally identifiable information.
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A method, comprising:
- selecting a subset of predefined preliminary name aliases for a name of a subject based on a plurality of characteristics of the subject;
- performing a randomizing function to select a preliminary name alias from the subset of predefined name aliases;
- appending a randomly generated numeric or alphanumeric value to the preliminary name alias to produce a final name alias;
- and
- sending a signal representing the final name alias and not the name of the subject.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving a signal representing an alias and an authorization code;
- validating the authorization code after receiving the signal;
- selecting personally identifiable information associated with the alias after validating the authorization code;
- and
- sending a signal representing the personally identifiable information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.