Patent ID: 9288191
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for anonymizing data to be transmitted to a destination computing device, comprising: receiving data to be transmitted from a user computer to the destination computing device over a network for storage, the data including a plurality of characters, with at least one character case sensitive; creating a case information word indicative of the case of the character; converting each of all the characters in the data to a known case; anonymizing the converted data with the known case based on a selective anonymization strategy, using an anonymization module to derive an anonymized data which preserves the number of characters of the received data, wherein the selected anonymization strategy comprising, at least, encryption that permits exact word matching search and wild card search; and transmitting anonymized data, the case information word and data indicative of the selected anonymization strategy for the converted data to the destination computing device over the network for storage, wherein one or more of the steps are executed in a computing device.