Border Router Filter System for Cross-Jurisdictional Data Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge in the field of distributed digital services is managing data and algorithms across multiple jurisdictions, where technical limitations and legal frameworks complicate data transfer, leading to risks of misuse and non-compliance with international sanctions and technology export restrictions.
Innovation Solution
A computer system with a filter system and decision engine that restricts data transfer based on legal frameworks and user roles, generating abstracted versions of data by deleting, encrypting, or aggregating sensitive information, and optimizing data processing across distributed nodes to minimize legal and technical risks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If data is transferred freely across distributed locations, then data availability and processing speed are improved, but legal compliance and security control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a border router as an intermediary component between different network domains. This border router contains a controller that automatically evaluates data transfer requests against predefined legal and security rules, acting as a mediator that enables data flow when compliant and blocks it when violations are detected, thus maintaining both speed and compliance
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring legal rules, security policies, and jurisdictional constraints into the border router controller before data transfers occur. This allows the system to automatically enforce compliance decisions in real-time without manual intervention, maintaining fast data processing while ensuring legal requirements are met in advance
2Speed
If data is localized at the edge, then data access speed is improved, but system complexity and legal risk management deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the distributed system into distinct network domains with defined jurisdictions, each managed by border routers. This segmentation allows data to be localized at the edge for fast access while the complexity of legal compliance is isolated to specific boundary points (border routers) rather than distributed across all edge devices
Solution Approach 2:
Border routers serve as intermediary components that centralize the complexity of legal rule management. Instead of each edge device needing to understand complex legal frameworks, the border routers handle all compliance evaluations, simplifying the edge devices while maintaining overall system compliance
3Productivity
If data is transferred across jurisdictions, then data processing capability is improved, but legal risk and compliance burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The border router controller implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor data transfer requests and automatically apply legal rules. When a transfer request is evaluated, the controller provides immediate feedback by either permitting or blocking the transfer based on compliance assessment, enabling productive cross-jurisdictional data flow while mitigating legal risks through automated enforcement
Solution Approach 2:
The border router acts as a mediator between different legal jurisdictions, evaluating transfer requests against the legal frameworks of both source and destination domains. This intermediary function enables productive data processing across borders while automatically managing legal risks by blocking non-compliant transfers
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AI summary
The invention pertains to a computer system (1) for controlling access to digital data, the system comprising local systems that are provided at remote locations and have a data connection for transferring digital data between the local systems, wherein at least a subset of local systems comprises at least one data acquisition device (73, 74) that is adapted to generate and provide raw digital data; at least a subset of local systems comprises at least one data processing unit (71, 72) having a memory and a processor; and each data processing unit is configured to process raw digital data and to generate processed digital data to be presented to users of the system, each user having one of a plurality of roles, wherein at least one filter (90-94) is assigned at each local system, each filter having a filter setting for restricting and prohibiting data transfer between the assigned and other local systems, wherein the filter system is configured to generate abstracted versions of a set of raw or processed digital data by deleting, encrypting or aggregating, based on the filter settings, information of the set of raw or processed digital data.