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

Claim 7:
8. A tokenization system for securing data, the tokenization system comprising:
a processor;
a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and
stored instructions translatable by the processor for:
receiving, 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 sensitive information in the first portion of the document;
generating format-preserving tokens for the sensitive information in the first portion of the document;
identifying the sensitive information in the second portion of the document;
generating 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 the format-preserving tokens and the self-describing tokens to the first client computing system or to a second client computing system.