{
  "patent_number": "US 9349016",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "Preventing Sensitive Data Leaks from Company Communications",
  "original_title": "System and method for user-context-based data loss prevention",
  "summary": "This patent describes a system that watches for unsent drafts of company communications, checks their content for sensitive data based on your current situation, and can block them or warn you if they seem risky.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent is about stopping sensitive information from accidentally leaving a company. It works by monitoring user devices that are connected to a company's communication system. The system first figures out your 'user context' – things like where you are or what device you're using. Based on this context, it picks a specific 'data loss prevention' (DLP) policy. This policy looks for certain actions, like creating a new, unsent draft of an email or message. When you create such a draft, the system analyzes its content to see if it contains sensitive information. If the content is deemed risky according to the policy, the system can take action, such as showing you a warning, preventing you from sending it, or even blocking access to the draft itself.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Preventing data loss for communications that have already been sent",
    "Policies that are not dynamic or do not change based on user context",
    "Systems that do not analyze the content of the communication draft",
    "Actions taken on communications that are not pre-transmission drafts",
    "Monitoring communications on devices not accessing an enterprise platform"
  ],
  "filed": "2014-06-06",
  "granted": "2016-05-24",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Dell Software Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/dell-software-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Michel Albert Brisebois",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/michel-albert-brisebois"
    },
    {
      "name": "Curtis T. Johnstone",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/curtis-t-johnstone"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 174,
  "tags": [
    "software",
    "telecommunications",
    "consumer_electronics"
  ],
  "abstract": "In one embodiment, a method includes determining a user context of at least one user device currently accessing an enterprise communication platform. The method further includes selecting a dynamic data loss prevention (DLP) policy applicable to the at least one user device based, at least in part, on the user context. The dynamic DLP policy specifies one or more communication events of interest. In addition, the method includes monitoring communication events initiated by the at least one user device for the one or more communication events of interest. Moreover, the method includes, responsive to each communication event of interest: assessing the communication event of interest based, at least in part, on a content-based classification of a communication associated with the communication event of interest; and responsive to a risk assessment meeting certain criteria, taking at least one action specified by the dynamic DLP policy.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9349016/windows-hello-biometric-login",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9349016/windows-hello-biometric-login/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US9349016",
  "relatedPatents": []
}