Patent ID: 9582680
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of scrubbing a data set having messages containing both non-personal data and personally identifiable information, the method comprising: loading a message containing both non-personal data and personally identifiable information; loading a scrubber configuration containing a rule set for scrubbing the data set; parsing the message into fields based on the rule set, wherein unstructured data fields are formatted and delimiters are added to the unstructured data field such that personally identifiable information is identifiable from unlabeled data; scrubbing only the personally identifiable information in the message based on the rule set to produce a scrubbed message, the personally identifiable information being associated with metadata that identifies a type of personally identifiable information, and applying a corresponding scrubbing rule to the type of personally identifiable information, the corresponding scrubbing rule including: saving the scrubbed message.