Automated Data Filtering for Regulatory Compliance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Data management is labor-intensive and prone to errors due to complex legal and regulatory requirements, privacy concerns, and ethical issues, often involving users who do not understand the underlying requirements.

Innovation Solution

A data management program identifies users and data regulation requirements, determines data rules, and generates filtered or obfuscated data based on access states to manage data securely and accurately.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual data management is performed by users, then flexibility in data access is maintained, but error rate increases and compliance reliability decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance reliabilityVSAvoiderror rate
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service data management by automatically applying data rules to determine access states. The computer automatically filters and manages data according to predefined rules without requiring manual user intervention, thereby reducing errors while maintaining compliance reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If automated data filtering is implemented, then productivity increases and error rate decreases, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements preliminary action by pre-defining data rules that encode complex regulatory requirements. These rules are established in advance and automatically applied during data access operations, simplifying the runtime process while maintaining high productivity and compliance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If comprehensive data rules are enforced, then compliance with regulations is improved, but ease of operation decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregulatory complianceVSAvoiddata access convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary layer of automated rule-based filtering between users and the underlying data. This intermediary automatically determines access states based on predefined rules, shielding users from the complexity of regulatory requirements while ensuring compliance is maintained.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250111064A1Selective filtering of data based on data rules
Publication Date: 2025.04.03 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
  • US20250111064A1 patent drawing
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AI summary

According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for managing access to data is provided. The embodiment may include identifying two or more users. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more data regulation requirements. The embodiment may further include determining a set of data rules from the one or more data regulation requirements. The embodiment may also include identifying a data set. The embodiment may further include determining, in response to a request for a subset of data from the data set, an access state to the subset of data for a user from the two or more users based on one or more data rules from the set of data rules. The embodiment may also include generating filtered data according to the determined access state.