Patent ID: 8655787

Claim:
In an electronic device, a method of processing a potentially sensitive item of data, the method comprising: receiving, by a controller circuit, a data set which includes the potentially sensitive item of data within a physical memory location of the electronic device, and generating, by the controller circuit, a sensitive item of data result and a token result indicating via the token result whether the potentially sensitive item of data of the data set satisfies a valid-token requirement which is characteristic of a token that replaces a potentially sensitive item of data; storing, by a controller circuit the potentially sensitive item of data of the data set that does satisfy the valid-token requirement in an unaltered form within the physical memory location, and generating, by the controller circuit, a token that does satisfy the valid-token requirement; and replacing, by the controller circuit, the potentially sensitive item of data of the data set that does not satisfy the valid-token requirement within the physical memory location with the generated token that does satisfy the valid-token requirement; and obtaining, by the controller circuit, at least one of a set of privileges available to at least one of a set of associated electronic devices, and obtaining, by the controller circuit, data from the set of associated electronic devices based upon the obtained privileges.