Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080077604
Filing Date: September 25, 2006
Inventors: Aavishkar Bharara
Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Current U.S. Classification: 707, 707/101000
Abstract

In an embodiment, the invention provides a method of de identifying an object data. The method comprises steps of obtaining the object data, the object data being data concerning a medical object, identifying at least one confidential identification data in the object data, the confidential identification data being a confidential data for identifying the medical object, filtering the confidential identification data from the object data and replacing the confidential identification data with at least one standard character.