Multi-tenant Data Cleanroom for Privacy-Preserving Aggregation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Managing data from multiple sources in electronic multi-tenant systems is challenging due to privacy and regulatory concerns, making it difficult for companies to share and analyze user data across platforms while maintaining user privacy and compliance with legal restrictions.

Innovation Solution

An electronic multi-tenant data management system that implements an attestation and approval process for securely aggregating and accessing data from multiple providers, using identity resolution and anonymization services to obscure personally identifiable information and transform data according to predefined rules, ensuring compliance with data management requirements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If data from multiple providers is aggregated and shared across platforms, then a more comprehensive user data picture is achieved, but privacy and regulatory compliance risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of user data pictureVSAvoidprivacy and regulatory compliance risks
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a cleanroom as an intermediary environment where data from multiple providers is aggregated and processed. The cleanroom acts as a mediator between data providers and data accessors, enabling comprehensive data analysis while maintaining privacy through controlled access and transformation of data within this isolated environment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates transformed copies of the original data through the cleanroom transformation process. Instead of sharing raw data directly, the system generates transformed versions that maintain analytical value while removing or obscuring personally identifiable information, thus reducing privacy risks while preserving data utility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Productivity

If data aggregation and access are enabled across multiple tenants, then data analysis capabilities improve, but system complexity and security management difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata analysis capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity and security management
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cleanroom is designed as a universal platform that can handle data from multiple providers and serve multiple accessors with different permission levels. The system provides multi-functional capabilities including data aggregation, transformation, access control, and compliance validation within a single unified environment, reducing overall system complexity despite the increased functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms through permission validation and compliance checking. Before data access is granted, the system validates permissions and transforms data according to predefined rules, providing feedback loops that ensure security and compliance are maintained automatically throughout the data processing workflow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If permission validation and data transformation are performed for each search query, then data security and compliance are ensured, but processing time and operational complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata security and complianceVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs permission validation and data transformation rules in advance, before actual data access occurs. By pre-establishing permission frameworks and transformation protocols within the cleanroom, the system reduces the time required for individual search queries while maintaining consistent security and compliance standards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20220342874A1Electronic multi-tenant data management systems and clean rooms
Publication Date: 2022.10.27 VIDEOAMP INC
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AI summary

Disclosed are methods and systems for providing a plurality of data corpuses for anonymization and aggregation. A plurality of data providers validate rules for accessing data by data requesters prior to data availability.