Patent ID: 7724918

Claim:
A method of selectively obfuscating text data in a document, said method comprising the steps of: (a) identifying configuration parameters to be used in said obfuscation; (b) identifying text data in said document for obfuscation using said identified configuration parameters; (c) transforming said identified text data using obfuscating data associated with at least one of said configuration parameters; and (d) substituting said transformed data form the respective said identified text data into said document, wherein the configuration parameters include at least predetermined text entity types for obfuscation, wherein step (b) comprises annotating each identified text data in the document with a respective tag, wherein the corresponding tag includes information of a configuration parameter by which the annotated text data was identified, wherein step (c) comprises using the tag to access a data source from which corresponding obfuscating data is selected for substitution of said annotated text data in the document, wherein selection of the obfuscating data from the data source is performed by a hash function, wherein each said configuration parameter has a corresponding said data source, wherein said hash function comprises a mapping from text data associated with the corresponding tag and obfuscating data, and wherein the mapping retains a record of at least the text data for which obfuscation data was substituted into said document.