Patent ID: 8341420
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for handling sensitive data, comprising: enabling, by a device, a user of the device to establish a sequence of two or more criteria to be used by the device for identifying sensitive data within a user-entered data sequence having both sensitive data and padding data, wherein the two or more criteria are established prior to input of the user-entered data sequence by the user, wherein said enabling is performed at an application level; applying, by the device, a first of the two or more criteria to data entered by the user in response to a request for sensitive data from a requesting agent, to identify the sensitive data from within the data entered by the user; providing only the sensitive data of the user-entered data sequence to the requesting agent; and applying, by the device, a second of the two or more criteria of the sequence to further data entered by the user in response to a request for sensitive data from a requesting agent.