Image storage across distributed computing systems
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAbhishek Kaul, Sachin Gupta, Pramod Vadayadiyil Raveendran, Seema Nagar, Kuntal Dey
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Abstract
Provided is a method, system, and computer program product for storing images across multiple distributed computing systems according to image sensitivity. The method comprises identifying an image and analyzing the image to identify sensitive information in the image. The method further comprises splitting the image into a sensitive portion and a non-sensitive portion. The method further comprises storing the sensitive portion of the image in a first distributed computing system and storing the non-sensitive portion of the image in a second distributed computing system.
Claims11
A method comprising:
- identifying an image;
- analyzing the image to identify sensitive information in the image;
- splitting the image into a sensitive portion of the image and a non-sensitive portion of the image;
- storing the sensitive portion of the image in a first distributed computing system and the non-sensitive portion of the image in a second distributed computing system;
- identifying a first location data and a first boundary data for the sensitive portion, wherein the first location data identifies a storage location in the first distributed computing environment for the sensitive portion, and wherein the first boundary data identifies where the sensitive portion belongs in the image;
- identifying a second location data and a second boundary data for the non-sensitive portion, wherein the second location data identifies a storage location in the second distributed computing environment for the non-sensitive portion, and wherein the second boundary data identifies where the non-sensitive portion belongs in the image;
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- storing the first location data, the second location data, the first boundary data, and the second boundary data in a database.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to perform a method comprising:
- identifying an image;
- analyzing the image to identify sensitive information in the image;
- splitting the image into a sensitive portion of the image and a non-sensitive portion of the image;
- storing the sensitive portion of the image in a first distributed computing system and the non-sensitive portion of the image in a second distributed computing system;
- receiving a request for the image from a requestor;
- authenticating that the requestor is permitted to receive the image;
- determining, from metadata associated with the image, a first location of the sensitive portion in the first distributed computing environment and a second location of the non-sensitive portion in the second distributed computing environment;
- retrieving the sensitive portion from the first distributed computing environment;
- retrieving the non-sensitive portion from the second distributed computing environment;
- combining, using the metadata associated with the image, the sensitive and non-sensitive portions into a combined image;
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- returning the combined image to the requestor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.