Patent ID: 9088545
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for determining if sensitive private information has been leaked to a public network, the system comprising: a computer including at least one processor, a memory, and a network interface; a private digital file containing sensitive content produced by an application program; and a private information matching process executing in the memory of the processor and configured to receive the private digital file; process the private digital file to generate snippet portions thereof, wherein the snippet portions each further include multiple rolling chunks of a digital file, with a first snippet portion containing a first chunk comprising a first set of words in the file, a second snippet portion containing a second chunk comprising a second set of words in the file with the second set of words including at least some of but not all of the words in the first set of words plus some other words from the file; receive multiple public digital files via the network interface from a public network; process the public digital files to generate snippet portions thereof; and match the generated snippets of the private digital files against the generated snippets of the public digital files to determine if at least some of the content of the private digital file is accessible to other computers connected to the public network.