Patent ID: 11893136
Assignee: OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for securing data, the method comprising:
receiving, by a tokenization system from a first client computing system, a request for tokenizing a document with a first portion having structured content and a second portion having unstructured or semi-structured content;
identifying, by the tokenization system, sensitive information in the first portion of the document;
generating, by the tokenization system, format-preserving tokens for the sensitive information in the first portion of the document;
identifying, by the tokenization system, the sensitive information in the second portion of the document;
generating, by the tokenization system, self-describing tokens for the sensitive information in the second portion of the document, the self-describing tokens referencing the sensitive information in the first portion of the document such that the sensitive information in the first portion of the document is secured utilizing the format-preserving tokens and the sensitive information in the second portion of the document is secured utilizing the self-describing tokens; and
communicating, by the tokenization system, the format-preserving tokens and the self-describing tokens to the first client computing system or to a second client computing system.