Patent ID: 8984650
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of protecting personally identifiable information transmitted in a communication in an educational environment, the method comprising: receiving the communication from a user's computer system, wherein content of the communication includes a plurality of information fields and the content of the communication includes a spreadsheet, form, template, or web page that includes a name or identifier of a student; determining whether the content of the communication includes an information field directed to personally identifiable information (PII) by determining whether the information in the information field was provided in connection with a predetermined process defined by an application on a remote application server wherein the predetermined process is a registration process, and the user is unaware of the determination whether the content of the communication includes the information directed to personally identifiable information (PII); if the content of the communication does not include any information fields with information provided in connection with the predetermined process, then forwarding the communication; and if at least one of the information fields in the content of the communication includes information provided in connection with the predetermined process, then: