Client Ledger Privacy Management System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Organizations face challenges in tracking and protecting personal data privacy due to proliferating regulations like CCPA and GDPR, which require efficient management of client data access, deletion, and prevention of unauthorized sharing, especially with the rise of data breaches and privacy exposure.

Innovation Solution

A privacy management system that creates and updates digital ledgers for each client, tracking data access and exposure by storing identification parameters securely, allowing querying and retrieval of data without revealing client identities, and generating privacy reports based on access patterns and exposure analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If organizations implement comprehensive data tracking and privacy management systems, then privacy protection and compliance improve, but system complexity and operational burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the privacy management system into separate functional modules: a ledger management module for tracking data access, a privacy analysis module for generating reports, and a data storage module for secure storage. This segmentation allows each module to perform its specific function independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive privacy protection capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a privacy management system as an intermediary between data holders and data requesters. This intermediary system automatically tracks data access requests, manages client ledgers, and generates privacy reports without requiring direct manual intervention, thereby reducing operational complexity while enhancing privacy protection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If detailed tracking of data access and client ledgers is implemented, then privacy compliance improves, but processing time and operational overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovecomplianceVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates client ledgers in advance that pre-track data access requests before actual data transfer occurs. By establishing these ledgers beforehand and automatically updating them during data access events, the system prepares compliance records in advance, reducing processing time during audits or privacy checks while maintaining full compliance tracking.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously and automatically updates client ledgers during data access operations, eliminating the need for periodic manual audits. This continuous tracking mechanism ensures compliance is maintained ongoing without requiring separate time-consuming audit processes, thereby reducing overall processing time while enhancing compliance reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12061722B1Systems and methods for managing personal data using client ledgers
Publication Date: 2024.08.13 UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
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AI summary

The present disclosure is related to a system that may include a first computing device and a second computing device. The first computing device may send a request for data that corresponds to a user. The second computing device may perform operations, including receiving the request for the data, retrieving the data from a database in response to receiving the request, and determining an identity of the user based on the data. The identity of the user may be stored in a header portion of the data. The operations may also include updating a ledger associated with the user to include an indication of the first computing device requesting the data and sending the data and the identity of the user to the first computing device.