Patent ID: 7940929

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for processing one or more documents, the documents containing restricted information, the restricted information not to be disclosed at a minimally secure location, the method comprising software executing on a computer system to execute the steps of: identifying one or more data fields in each document; identifying collectively critical sections of the documents, each collectively critical section comprising two or more data fields that are defined by information security rules as collectively corresponding to restricted information; identifying non-critical sections of the documents, wherein the non-critical sections are not restricted information according to the information security rules, the non-critical sections to be processed at the minimally secure location; segmenting each collectively critical section into two or more sub-critical segments, wherein each sub-critical segment is missing at least one data field from the collectively critical section, whereby each sub-critical segment by itself is not restricted information according to the information security rules, the sub-critical segments to be processed at the minimally secure location; recombining the sub-critical segments of each collectively critical section after processing at the minimally secure location; and recombining the collectively critical section and the non-critical section of each document after processing at the minimally secure location.