Jurisdictional Control Data Storage Platform
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data storage and access solutions for businesses and consumers face risks such as loss of data ownership, jurisdictional exposure, and compliance challenges, particularly in handling and storing digital data across multiple jurisdictions, and often require significant technical expertise and costs.
Innovation Solution
A modular data storage and access platform with jurisdictional control that uses user-defined encryption technology to ensure data residency and compliance, allowing users to maintain ownership and control over their data while aligning with national laws, and integrates a privacy compliance model to manage access and security through a turn-key platform solution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If businesses implement individual SaaS applications from multiple vendors, then service activation requires minimal technical domain knowledge and low infrastructure costs, but users face loss of data ownership, exposure to ongoing behavior monitoring, undesired jurisdictional exposure, and third party profit generation through the sale of digital data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a data sovereignty intermediary layer that sits between users and SaaS vendors. This intermediary manages data access rights, jurisdictional compliance, and ownership controls, allowing users to benefit from SaaS services while maintaining data ownership and controlling jurisdictional exposure through the intermediary's governance framework
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments data access rights and control mechanisms from the SaaS service delivery. By separating data ownership controls from service activation, users can easily activate services while data sovereignty is maintained through distinct, manageable segments of access rights, jurisdictional rules, and ownership policies that operate independently from the service layer
2Object-affected harmful factors
If businesses internally develop the ability to purchase, maintain, and provide access to applications and digital content storage, then data ownership and control are maintained, but significant fixed and variable overhead costs are required for system development and maintenance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where the system automatically manages data sovereignty controls, jurisdictional compliance, and access rights without requiring users to manually configure complex infrastructure. The platform self-manages the complexity of data ownership enforcement while providing simple interfaces for users to maintain control
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal platform that consolidates multiple functions (data storage, access control, jurisdictional compliance management, and service provisioning) into a single system. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for businesses to separately develop and maintain complex infrastructure for each function, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining data ownership control
3Object-affected harmful factors
If businesses internally develop data storage and access capabilities, then data residency and privacy compliance can be controlled, but significant overhead costs and technical expertise are required to monitor national and international laws
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors data access, storage location, and jurisdictional compliance status. Automatic feedback loops detect potential compliance violations and trigger corrective actions, allowing the system to adapt to changing legal requirements without requiring manual monitoring of national and international laws by business users
4Object-affected harmful factors
If users require specialized technical knowledge to implement data storage solutions, then data security and jurisdictional control can be ensured, but implementation becomes complex and requires information technology services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service automation where security policies, encryption keys, and jurisdictional controls are automatically configured and managed by the system without requiring user expertise. The platform handles complex security implementations through automated processes, allowing users to achieve strong data security without needing specialized technical knowledge or IT service involvement
Data Source
AI summary
There is disclosed a modular data storage and access platform with jurisdictional control. The platform ensures alignment of jurisdictional compliance between a user, national laws, and associated data through pre-scripted data channeling and handling during execution of application provider business services and/or sharing and synchronizing data between approved parties, encapsulated though user defined encryption technology, while ensuring physical and legal ownership and defined residency of user data with solution enablement free of technical complexity or need of special education/training or need of information technology services. In an embodiment, the platform enables approved third party value added SaaS applications to manipulate data stored on the modular data storage without removing the data from the platform.