Automated Software Compliance Analysis Engine
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Solution Overview
Problem
Companies face challenges in determining compliance with various laws and regulations regarding the use of personal information, as laws can be complex and difficult to understand, leading to potential legal violations and reputational damage.
Innovation Solution
A compliance engine that automatically analyzes software programs to identify potential compliance issues by comparing invoked processes with a process compliance library, using an extraction engine, subsumption engine, and inference engine to determine if formalized compliance norms are violated, providing visual representations of potential issues to users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If companies manually analyze software programs for compliance with laws and regulations, then they can identify potential compliance issues, but the process is time-consuming and difficult due to the complexity of laws and regulations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical analysis of compliance laws with an automated computer-based system that uses formalized compliance norms, process libraries, and algorithmic matching to analyze software programs. This substitution eliminates the time-consuming manual review while maintaining or improving analysis accuracy through systematic automated comparison of program processes against compliance requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms complex legal compliance requirements into formalized parameters and structured data representations. By converting unstructured laws into formalized compliance norms with defined parameters, the system enables efficient automated analysis while preserving the precision needed to identify compliance issues accurately.
2Measurement precision
If companies hire legal experts to understand and interpret laws and regulations, then compliance determination becomes more accurate, but the cost and complexity of the compliance process increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the need for human legal experts with an automated compliance analysis system that uses formalized compliance norms, process libraries, and algorithmic reasoning. This substitution maintains high accuracy in compliance determination while eliminating the organizational complexity and costs associated with hiring and managing legal expertise.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates formalized copies of legal compliance requirements in a structured, machine-readable format. By copying and formalizing compliance norms into standardized representations, the system captures the precision of expert legal interpretation while presenting it in a simplified, automated format that reduces system complexity.
3Reliability
If companies implement comprehensive compliance monitoring of all software processes, then they can ensure full compliance with regulations, but the analysis becomes increasingly complex and difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the compliance analysis into distinct modular components: process extraction, formalized compliance norms, process compliance libraries, and analysis engines. This segmentation enables comprehensive monitoring of all software processes while managing complexity through organized, reusable modules that can be independently maintained and updated.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal compliance analysis system that handles multiple compliance requirements and regulatory frameworks through a single integrated platform. The formalized compliance norms and process libraries serve as universal components that can analyze diverse compliance scenarios, ensuring comprehensive reliability while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate monitoring systems.
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AI summary
Techniques and solutions are described for facilitating the determination of whether a software program may raise a compliance issue, such as whether processes invoked by the software program may involve the sending of protected information. A compliance tool automatically determines a plurality of processes invoked by a program. A plurality of the invoked processes are compared with a process compliance library comprising at least one process. The comparing produces compliance results. The compliance results are output to a user.