Proprietary Data Governance Platform for Automated Compliance Evidence

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Solution Overview

Problem

Enterprises face challenges in navigating complex contractual and regulatory obligations for proprietary data, leading to time-consuming and error-prone processes in ensuring compliance, particularly when handling sensitive information like customer data.

Innovation Solution

A compliance computer platform that receives proprietary data and governance structures, defines enterprise-wide decision accountabilities, privacy objectives, and machine-level controls to test and confirm compliance, facilitating automated data restriction management across the enterprise.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual processes are used to navigate contractual and regulatory obligations for proprietary data, then flexibility in understanding complex requirements is maintained, but the process becomes time-consuming and error-prone

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance management efficiencyVSAvoidcompliance accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical processes with an automated computer-based system that uses software algorithms to navigate contractual and regulatory obligations. The system automatically scans contracts, extracts data protection requirements, maps them to governance policies, and generates compliance evidence, eliminating human error and significantly improving both efficiency and accuracy in compliance management.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The compliance management system enables self-service capabilities where the system automatically performs compliance assessment, policy mapping, and evidence generation without requiring manual intervention. The automated workflows allow the system to independently navigate complex contractual obligations and regulatory requirements, reducing both time consumption and human error while maintaining high reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If comprehensive compliance checks are implemented across all systems, then compliance accuracy is improved, but the complexity of the compliance management process increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance verification accuracyVSAvoidcompliance system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the compliance management process into distinct automated modules: contract scanning and parsing, requirement extraction, policy mapping, compliance assessment, and evidence generation. Each module handles a specific aspect of compliance verification, making the overall complex process manageable and maintainable while ensuring comprehensive checks across all systems through systematic breakdown of tasks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The compliance management system is designed as a universal platform that can handle multiple types of contracts, regulatory requirements, and governance policies through a single integrated system. The system uses standardized data structures and processing mechanisms that work across diverse compliance scenarios, reducing system complexity while maintaining comprehensive verification capabilities through multi-functional design.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Loss of information

If data is scanned and tracked throughout the enterprise, then compliance evidence is improved, but the time required to identify and monitor data increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance evidence completenessVSAvoiddata monitoring duration

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by proactively scanning and tagging data elements as they are created or imported into enterprise systems, rather than waiting for compliance assessments. The system pre-identifies proprietary data, associates it with relevant contractual and regulatory requirements, and establishes tracking mechanisms in advance, ensuring complete compliance evidence is available immediately when needed without time-consuming retrospective analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The compliance monitoring system operates continuously in the background, automatically tracking data elements as they move through enterprise systems. The continuous scanning and tagging process ensures that compliance evidence is maintained throughout the data lifecycle without interrupting business operations, achieving complete evidence collection while minimizing time impact through parallel, non-intrusive monitoring.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12541769B2System to facilitate proprietary data restriction compliance for an enterprise

Publication Date: 2026.02.03 HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CO

AI summary

According to some embodiments, an enterprise proprietary data store contains a set of electronic data records, each electronic data record having with proprietary data and an associated governance structure. A compliance computer platform may receive the proprietary data and associated governance structure from the enterprise proprietary data store and define enterprise-wide decision accountabilities for the proprietary data based on the governance structure. The compliance computer platform may also define privacy objectives for the proprietary data based on the governance structure along with specific machine-level controls to test and confirm compliance with the governance structure.