Patent ID: 9461963
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory device-readable medium, with instructions stored thereon, which when executed by at least one processor of a processing station device of a plurality of processing stations geographically disbursed, cause the processing station device to: receive, via a network connection by a network interface device of the processing station device, updates to information regarding electronic data desired to be detected, the information stored in a memory device of the processing station device; receive, via the network interface device of the processing station device according to a geographical location of at least one of the processing station device and a receiving station device, a representation of at least a portion of electronic data from the receiving station device, the representation of the at least a portion of electronic data generated by the receiving station device according to a hashing algorithm, wherein the processing station device does not store electronic data desired to be detected and wherein the representation has a smaller data size than the at least a portion of electronic data; compare the representation of the at least a portion of electronic data to a list of reference representations of electronic data desired to be detected, the list of reference representations of electronic data desired to be detected stored in the memory device; generate, when the comparing identifies a match of the representation to a member of the list of reference representations of electronic data desired to be detected, a message indicating the electronic data from which the representation was generated is associated with content desired to be detected; and transmitting, via the network interface device of the processing station device, the message to the receiving station device, wherein content desired to be detected is prevented by the receiving station device from being sent to a user device.