Patents by Inventor Leah Fortier

Leah Fortier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • IDENTIFYING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITHIN AN UNSTRUCTURED DATA STORE
    Publication number: 20230418976
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying personally identifiable information (PII) are disclosed. In some aspects, frequency maps of fields storing known PII information are generated. The frequency maps may count occurrences of unique bigrams in the PII fields. A field of interest may then be analyzed to generate a second frequency map. Correlations between the first frequency maps and the second frequency map may be generated. If one of the correlations meets certain criterion, the disclosed embodiments may determine that the field of interest does or does not include PII. Access control for the field of interest may then be based on whether the field includes PII. In some aspects, a storage location of data included in the field of interest may be based on whether the field includes PII.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Vasyl Pihur, Subhash Sankuratripati, Dachuan Huang, Leah Fortier
  • Identifying personally identifiable information within an unstructured data store
    Patent number: 11797709
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying personally identifiable information (PII) are disclosed. In some aspects, frequency maps of fields storing known PII information are generated. The frequency maps may count occurrences of unique bigrams in the PII fields. A field of interest may then be analyzed to generate a second frequency map. Correlations between the first frequency maps and the second frequency map may be generated. If one of the correlations meets certain criterion, the disclosed embodiments may determine that the field of interest does or does not include PII. Access control for the field of interest may then be based on whether the field includes PII. In some aspects, a storage location of data included in the field of interest may be based on whether the field includes PII.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Vasyl Pihur, Subhash Sankuratripati, Dachuan Huang, Leah Fortier
  • IDENTIFYING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITHIN AN UNSTRUCTURED DATA STORE
    Publication number: 20220147653
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying personally identifiable information (PII) are disclosed. In some aspects, frequency maps of fields storing known PII information are generated. The frequency maps may count occurrences of unique bigrams in the PII fields. A field of interest may then be analyzed to generate a second frequency map. Correlations between the first frequency maps and the second frequency map may be generated. If one of the correlations meets certain criterion, the disclosed embodiments may determine that the field of interest does or does not include PII. Access control for the field of interest may then be based on whether the field includes PII. In some aspects, a storage location of data included in the field of interest may be based on whether the field includes PII.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Vasyl Pihur, Subhash Sankuratripati, Dachuan Huang, Leah Fortier
  • Identifying personally identifiable information within an unstructured data store
    Patent number: 11263341
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying personally identifiable information (PII) are disclosed. In some aspects, frequency maps of fields storing known PII information are generated. The frequency maps may count occurrences of unique bigrams in the PII fields. A field of interest may then be analyzed to generate a second frequency map. Correlations between the first frequency maps and the second frequency map may be generated. If one of the correlations meets certain criterion, the disclosed embodiments may determine that the field of interest does or does not include PII. Access control for the field of interest may then be based on whether the field includes PII. In some aspects, a storage location of data included in the field of interest may be based on whether the field includes PII.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Vasyl Pihur, Subhash Sankuratripati, Dachuan Huang, Leah Fortier