Mitigating and managing privacy risks using planning

US8141160B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Kay S. Anderson · Washington, US
• Alexandre Evfimievski · San Jose, US
• Mark D. Feblowitz · Winchester, US
• Genady Grabarnik · Scarsdale, US
• Nagui Halim · Yorktown Heights, US
• Zhen Liu · Tarrytown, US
• Ralf Rantzau · San Jose, US
• Anton V. Riabov · Ossining, US
• Angela Marie Schuett · Columbia, US
• Ramakrishnan Srikant · San Jose, US
• Grant Wagner · Columbia, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 26, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 20, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 10, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0635
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

System and methods are provided for managing and mitigating privacy risks in a system having a network of processing elements. According to one method, there is receive a request for at least one output product from the system. The request includes a set of privacy parameters. At least one set of workflow generating strategies are created that results in the output product having a privacy risk value below a predefined threshold. At least one of the workflow generating strategies is deployed for automatically producing the at least one output product.