Protected electronic communication
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJian-Qun Zhang, Fei Zhang, Zhen Yang
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to a protected electronic communication method comprising assigning a protected electronic communication to a data element, wherein the protected electronic communication comprises a plurality of identifier segments, receiving a request for the data element to be included in an analytics report, determining, according to the protected electronic communication, whether the data element is permitted to be included in the analytics report, and in response to determining that the data element is permitted to be included in the analytics report, providing the data element for use in the analytics report.
Claims15
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
- receive an electronic communication;
- determine whether the electronic communication comprises a protected communication;
- in response to determining that the electronic communication comprises a protected communication, store the electronic communication in a memory;
- and
- in response to determining that the electronic communication does not comprise a protected communication, print the electronic communication.
A method comprising:
- maintaining a list of protected sources;
- receiving an electronic communication;
- identifying a source of the electronic communication;
- determining whether the electronic communication comprises a protected communication by determining whether the list of protected sources comprises the source of the electronic communication;
- and
- in response to determining that the electronic communication comprises a protected communication, storing the electronic communication in memory;
- and
- in response to determining that the electronic communication does not comprise a protected communication, printing the electronic communication.
A system, comprising:
- a protected source list engine to:
- receive a plurality of protected source identifiers, and
- maintain the plurality of protected source identifiers;
- a communication engine to:
- receive an electronic communication,
- identify a source of the electronic communication, and
- determine whether the electronic communication comprises a protected communication according to the source of the electronic communication;
- a storage engine to:
- in response to determining that the electronic communication comprises a protected communication:
- encrypt the electronic communication, and
- store the electronic communication in a memory;
- and
- an output engine to:
- in response to determining that the electronic communication does not comprise a protected communication, print the electronic communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.