Code Version Compliance Monitoring for Privacy Data Mapping

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Solution Overview

Problem

Organizations face challenges in ensuring compliance with privacy and AI-related policies and regulations due to lack of transparency and clarity in data handling practices, leading to vulnerabilities in software code that can result in data breaches and unethical AI usage.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for monitoring and assessing new versions of computer code to identify changes, analyze functionality, and provide a graphical user interface for data entry, determining risk ratings, and communicating compliance information to ensure adherence to policies and minimize vulnerabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If new versions of computer code are deployed to improve functionality and adaptability, then productivity and adaptability are improved, but the risk of compliance violations and security vulnerabilities increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecode functionalityVSAvoidcompliance assurance

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary compliance assessments and vulnerability scans on new code versions before deployment. By conducting security checks, policy compliance verification, and vulnerability identification in advance, the system prevents non-compliant or vulnerable code from being deployed, thus maintaining reliability while allowing functional improvements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors deployed code for compliance violations and security issues, providing real-time feedback to developers and administrators. This feedback loop enables rapid identification and correction of compliance issues and vulnerabilities, ensuring that adaptability improvements do not compromise reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If comprehensive monitoring and assessment of code changes is implemented to improve compliance and security, then reliability is improved, but device complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance monitoringVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The compliance monitoring system is divided into modular components including code change detection modules, vulnerability scanning modules, compliance assessment modules, and reporting modules. Each module performs a specific function independently, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable while providing comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces intermediary tools such as automated code analysis agents and compliance rule engines that mediate between the code being monitored and the assessment criteria. These intermediaries simplify the monitoring process by automatically interpreting code changes against compliance requirements, reducing the complexity of direct analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If automated code analysis and vulnerability scanning are performed to improve security detection, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of time and processing overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevulnerability detection accuracyVSAvoidassessment time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs partial code analysis by focusing on specific high-risk areas, patterns, and sections of code that are most likely to contain vulnerabilities or compliance issues. Rather than analyzing every line of code in depth, the system applies targeted scanning to critical sections, maintaining high detection accuracy while reducing overall processing time.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The vulnerability scanning and compliance assessment are performed periodically at key milestones in the software development lifecycle, such as before code deployment or after significant changes. This periodic approach balances thorough security detection with time constraints, ensuring critical vulnerabilities are caught without requiring continuous full-code analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS20260025414A1Data processing systems and methods for performing assessments and monitoring of new versions of computer code for compliance

Publication Date: 2026.01.22 ONETRUST LLC

AI summary

In various embodiments, a data map generation system is configured to receive a request to generate a privacy-related data map for particular computer code, and, at least partially in response to the request, determine a location of the particular computer code, automatically obtain the particular computer code based on the determined location, and analyze the particular computer code to determine privacy-related attributes of the particular computer code, where the privacy-related attributes indicate types of personal information that the particular computer code collects or accesses. The system may be further configured to generate and display a data map of the privacy-related attributes to a user.