Compliant and auditable data handling in a data confidence fabric
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorStephen J. Todd
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Abstract
One example method includes receiving, at an entity, a stream of data and associated trust metadata, inspecting, by the entity, the trust metadata to identify a policy annotation, when the entity is capable of doing so, processing, by the entity, the stream of data according to requirements of the policy annotation, and annotating, by the entity, the processed data with an annotation to indicate that the data was processed in accordance with the requirements of the policy annotation.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at an entity, a stream of data and associated trust metadata;
- inspecting, by the entity, the trust metadata to identify a policy annotation;
- when the entity is capable of doing so, processing, by the entity, the stream of data according to requirements of the policy annotation;
- and
- annotating, by the entity, the processed data with an annotation to indicate that the data was processed in accordance with the requirements of the policy annotation.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at an entity, a stream of data and associated trust metadata;
- inspecting, by the entity, the trust metadata to identify a policy annotation;
- when the entity is capable of doing so, processing, by the entity, the stream of data according to requirements of the policy annotation;
- and
- annotating, by the entity, the processed data with an annotation to indicate that the data was processed in accordance with the requirements of the policy annotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.