Using an object model to improve handling of personally identifiable information

US7962962B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Steven B. Adler · Great Neck, US
• Endre Felix Bangerter · Ligerz, CH
• Kathryn Ann Bohrer · Austin, US
• Nigel Brown · King City, CA
• Jan L. Camenisch · Thalwil, CH
• Arthur M. Gilbert · Bethel, US
• Dogan Kesdogan · White Plains, US
• Matthew P. Leonard · Upper Saddle River, US
• Xuan Liu · Yorktown Heights, US
• Michael Robert McCullough · Washington, US
• Adam Charles Nelson · Barrington, US
• Charles Campbell Palmer · Hanover, US
• Calvin S. Powers · Chapel Hill, US
• Michael Schnyder · Bern, CH
• Edith Schonberg · Kingston, US
• Matthias Schunter · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE
• Elsie A. Van Herreweghen · Horgen, CH
• Michael Waidner · Darmstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 19, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 14, 2011
• Expiry date: Oct 3, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In a computer, a first set of object classes are provided representing active entities in an information-handling process and a second set of object classes are provided representing data and rules in the information-handling process. At least one object class has rules associated with data. The above-mentioned objects are used in constructing a model of an information-handling process, and to provide an output that identifies at least one way in which the information-handling process could be improved. One aspect is a method for handling personally identifiable information. Another aspect is a system for executing the method of the present invention. A third aspect is as a set of instructions on a computer-usable medium, or resident in a computer system, for executing the method of the present invention.