Patent ID: 11954231
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-based method of recursively adapting a sensitive content masking technique, the method comprising:
receiving a request from a primary user to share an original document, wherein the primary user configures a parameter for masking of sensitive information;
receiving an identity, from the primary user, of a secondary user who needs access to a masked version of the original document, wherein the secondary user has different permissions than that of the primary user;
identifying the sensitive information in the original document, wherein the identified sensitive information is displayed to the primary user;
classifying, by a machine learning (ML) model, each piece of the identified sensitive information according to a sensitivity type and a level of sensitivity, and wherein the level of sensitivity is a quantitative scale configured by the primary user;
generating a masked value for each piece of the identified sensitive information based on the permissions of the secondary user including the sensitivity type and the level of sensitivity the secondary user is authorized to access, wherein the masked value of each piece of the identified sensitive information is incorporated into the masked version of the original document, and wherein generating the masked value further comprises substituting, for each piece of the identified sensitive information, an original value of the piece of the identified sensitive information with a generic value; and
presenting the masked version of the original document to the secondary user.