ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,774, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Dynamic and modular data classification engine" was invented by George Chen Kaidi (Singapore), Li Hua Lim (Singapore), Rajasekaran Radhakrishnan (Chennai, India) and Sreeram Vasudevan (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for providing a data control framework that enables storing, sharing, and transferring of data in a secure manner. Data files stored in data repositories are scanned. Content associated with different section of each data file is analyzed, and each section is tagged with a sensitivity level based on the conte...