Patent ID: 11962625
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of automatically identifying restricted content on a computer system, said method comprising:
accessing a remote computer network;
identifying a storage device of said remote computer network;
retrieving metadata from the storage device of said remote computer network, wherein the metadata comprises hash values associated with files stored on the storage device, wherein the retrieving metadata from the storage device of said remote computer network comprises retrieving only metadata from the storage device for files that have been added or modified since a previous scan;
retrieving hash values associated with known restricted content from a remote database, wherein a hash value uniquely identifies a respective file and is based on a digest thereof;
comparing said hash values associated with files stored on the storage device to said hash values associated with known restricted content; and
flagging the respective file stored on the storage device and indicating a file identifier associated with said respective file when a hash value associated with said respective file substantially matches at least one of said hash values associated with known restricted content.