Patent ID: 9614814
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for de-identifying records received from a plurality of clients, each of the plurality of clients associated with a client tag unique to the client and a plurality of records including identifying data for a plurality of individuals, comprising: receiving a record for an individual from at least one data storage device associated with a client, the record comprising a plurality of data elements identifying the individual; generating, with at least one processor, a token based at least partially on the plurality of data elements and a client tag uniquely identifying the client among the plurality of clients; creating, with at least one processor, a de-identified record comprising a portion of the record and the token; matching, with at least one processor, the token or a new token based on the token to at least one other token in a database, the at least one other token generated based on the client tag and associated with at least one other de-identified record for the individual; and linking, with at least one processor, the de-identified record to the at least one other de-identified record in at least one data storage device.