Patent ID: 9122880
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computing device configured to provide operations comprising: receiving a plurality of entries of sensitive personal information extracted from data records; sorting the plurality of entries into an ordering; for each of the plurality of entries, beginning with a first one of the plurality of entries in the ordering and proceeding sequentially through the ordering, determining a mask sequence value that is a next available value in a predetermined sequence of values and assigning the mask sequence value to the entry; updating a master translation table that stores mask sequence values in association with entries of sensitive personal information such that the master translation table includes the plurality of entries of sensitive personal information in association with their respective assigned mask sequence values; and merging the determined mask sequence values into the data records to be used in place of the respective entries of sensitive personal information to which the mask sequence values have been assigned to safeguard the sensitive personal information.