System and method for automated compliance verification

A computer-implemented method for informing an entity of an update associated with a compliance rule using a distributed computing system, the method comprising:

• creating a template, using one or more processors at a remote computer system, that includes metadata identifying a section in a compliance document that includes employee identification information, wherein creating the templates includes prompting the entity to incorporate at least one key term into a particular section of the compliance document, the at least one key term associated with one of the following:
• a compliance rule pertinent to the entity's operations, a topic pertinent to the entity's operations, and a jurisdiction pertinent to the entity's operations;
• creating a transmission object using one or more processors at a local computer system, the transmission object including the metadata in place of the section of the compliance document with the employee identification information and a subset of information from the compliance document, the subset of information including location information identifying the particular section of the compliance document and the at least one key term and excluding the employee identification information;
• receiving the transmission object using the one or more processors of the remote computer system;
• parsing the compliance rule information from the location information using the one or more processors of the remote computer system;
• identifying the metadata and the at least one key term in the transmission object using the one or more processors of the remote computer system;
• searching a compliance rules database containing updates to a set of compliance rules using the one or more processors of the remote computer system to identify an update that is pertinent to the compliance rule, the topic, or the jurisdiction associated with the at least one key term or the metadata in the transmission object;
• creating a notification using the one or more processors of the remote computer system, the notification including the update and the location information from the transmission object identifying the particular section of the compliance document;
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• sending the notification to the local computer system.

A distributed system for updating a compliance document, the system comprising:

• a local computing system, including one or more processors and instructions contained in a non-transitory storage medium, the local computing system configured to:
• filter information in the compliance document to parse a citation to at least one compliance rule at a specific location in the compliance document from at least one policy specific to a first entity regarding its compliance with the compliance rule;
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• create a transmission object by compiling metadata and compliance rule information and location information into the transmission object, the metadata compiled in the transmission object in place of the at least one policy specific to the first entity from the compliance document, the compliance rule information including the citation to the compliance rule from the compliance document, and the location information including the specific location of the citation in the compliance document;
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• a remote computing system including:
• means for receiving the transmission object, the means for receiving being configured to parse the compliance rule information from the location information and to extract the metadata;
• means for maintaining a compliance rules database that includes metadata identifying topics pertinent to a set of updated compliance rules;
• one or more processors executing instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory storage medium to identify an updated compliance rule in the set of updated compliance rules using the transmission object;
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• create and transmit a notification incorporating the updated compliance rule using the location information.

A distributed system for limiting distribution of confidential information from a compliance document while enabling communications of non-confidential information from the compliance document by incorporating metadata throughout the distributed system, the distributed system comprising:

• a first computer system including one or more processors and computer-readable storage media containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the first system, cause those one or more processors to:
• analyze the compliance document for a first entity, the compliance document including metadata identifying at least one compliance rule at a specific location in the compliance document and at least one policy specific to the first entity regarding its compliance with the compliance rule;
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• create a transmission object by incorporating the metadata into the transmission object in place of the at least one policy specific to the first entity from the compliance document;
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• a second computer system including one or more processors and computer-readable storage media containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the second computer system, cause those one or more processors to:
• receive the transmission object from the first computer system;
• parse the metadata from other information in the compliance document;
• search, based on the metadata, a compliance rules database containing updates to a set of compliance rules to identify an update that is pertinent to the compliance rule;
• create a notification, the notification including the identified update and the specific location of the citation from the transmission object;
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• send the notification to the first computer system.