Patent Application

App. No. 15/700,105

Abstract

Claims (21)

1 . A method comprising:

parsing unstructured text content within a first e-mail message to identify, from the text content, a first set of sensitive data;

encrypting the first set of sensitive data;

transmitting the first e-mail message with a first set of private tags surrounding the first set of sensitive data, the first set of private tags identifying a first name and value pair;

receiving a second e-mail message;

parsing the second e-mail message to identify a second set of private tags surrounding a second set of sensitive data in the e-mail message; and

decrypting the second set of sensitive data using a decryption type identified by a second name and value pair identified by the second set of private tags.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein parsing the unstructured text content further comprises identifying the first set of sensitive data by evaluating the text content using user-defined rules.

3 . A method comprising

parsing received instant message data to identify private tags, the private tags surrounding sensitive data within the instant message and identifying a name and value pair to use in decrypting the sensitive data;

determining a key associated with the name and value pair;

decrypting the sensitive data using the key associated with the name and value pair;

removing the private tags from the received data stream; and

displaying the received instant message in a user interface.

4 . The method of claim 3 wherein each of the private tags includes a start tag and an end tag.

5 . The method of claim 3 further comprising:

decoding the received data into an extensible markup language compliant format.

6 . A system for privatizing an instant message, comprising:

a first parser for parsing an instant message received in a user interface for identification of sensitive data;

an encryption engine for encrypting the sensitive data, the encryption engine including a uuencoder for converting the encrypted sensitive data into a data stream complying with an XML format, and configured to generate a private tag that surrounds the sensitive data; and

a second parser for parsing a received data stream including encrypted data, the second parser configured to parse the received data stream for a private tag comprising a name/value pair usable by the encryption engine to decrypt the message display the decrypted message in a user interface.

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