Patent ID: 8819847

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying a transmission as violating a policy, wherein violating the policy is determined by identifying non-public information included in the transmission; creating a record based on the transmission; processing the record to include a unique identifier number assigned to a user which corresponds to a sender of the transmission and a group identifier corresponding to the sender of the transmission; in response to a request, generating a report based on at least one of the unique identifier number and the group identifier, wherein the group identifier is a non-unique code assigned to the sender based on a position of the sender within an institution; and allowing certain senders with pre-defined unique identifier numbers and group identifier codes to transmit non-public information based on a position of each of the certain senders position within the institution, and wherein processing the record to include the unique identifier number and the group identifier further includes: selecting information from the record; comparing the information selected from the record to determine if the selected information matches information in a database; and in response to determining that the selected information matches the information in the database, selecting the unique identifier number which correlates to the information in the database, wherein the selected unique identifier number corresponds to a replacement of a prior unique identifier number that did not match the information in the database.