Travis Federick Cunningham

US Patent:

20180234234, Aug 16, 2018

Filed:

Feb 9, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/893441

Inventors:

- Indianapolis IN, US
Ben Timby - Brownsburg IN, US
Travis Cunningham - Indianapolis IN, US
Anthony Spelde - Indianapolis IN, US

International Classification:

H04L 9/06
G06F 17/30
G06F 21/10
G06F 21/60
H04L 9/32

Abstract:

A system and method for tracking the creation and evolution of a digital file, the system and method includes determining at a collector agent, a change to the digital file, retrieving metadata about the digital file, applying at least one tokenizing algorithm to calculate a plurality of tokens, performing w-shingling operations on the contents of the digital file, calculating a hash of the digital file, assembling a fingerprint, the fingerprint being a unique identifier of the digital file and based at least in part on the plurality of tokens, the hash, and the metadata results.