US 2025/0165531 A1Published application

Systems and methods for data asset access governance

AssigneeTruist Bank

InventorsScott Howard Magoon, Tufail Ahmed Khan, Di Hu

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a governance graph representing data set interconnection. The data set interconnections may be based on common fields, sources, databases, applications, or patterns of usage. For example, the interconnections may be direct connections, where one data set is directly downstream from another data set. Alternatively, the interconnections may be indirect connections based patterns showing the data sets are commonly used together. For example, given data sets “A”, “B”, and “C”, if “B” is directly connected to “A” because it is downstream from “A”, and a particular group of users commonly use “B” and “C” together, “A” may be indirectly related to “C” based on the pattern of usage. In this example, the governance graph is configured to indicate the connection between “A” and “B” is stronger than the connection between “A” and “C”, whilst still showing said connection.

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Dependent claims

A computing system, comprising:

at least one processor;
a communication interface communicatively coupled to the at least one processor;
and
a memory device storing executable code that, when executed, causes the processor to:
receive a plurality of data assets from a plurality of data sources;
determine, for each of the plurality of data assets, one or more data asset characteristics that are included in a data profile of each of the plurality data assets, the one or more data asset characteristics including input or output connections that connect the plurality of data assets to one or more machine learning models;
compare the input or output connections that connect the plurality of data assets to the one or more machine learning models;
perform, based on the comparing, a data governance procedure to evaluate compliance with an entity's governance policy that defines how the plurality of data assets of the entity are to be interconnected in accordance with decision rights granted to individuals associated with the entity, the data governance procedure including determining from metadata of the plurality of data assets that multiple data assets of the plurality of data assets have common input or output connections that are similar to one another, the metadata indicating usage in workflows and data fields and the determining from the metadata including inferring from the usage in the workflows and the data fields that the multiple data assets have the common input or output connections;
generate, for the multiple data assets determined to have the common input or output connections, a data governance graph that includes a representation of the common input or output connections between the multiple data assets having common characteristics, the representation including nodes and lines indicating interconnections between the multiple data assets and the machine learning models;
receive, from a user device, a request to access the generated data governance graph of the multiple data assets determined to have the common input or output connections;
initiate display, via a graphical user interface associated with the user device, of the generated data governance graph;
receive, from the user device, a user selection of at least one data asset of the multiple data assets determined to have the common input or output connections;
and
in response to receiving the user selection of the at least one data asset of the multiple data assets, initiate display, via the graphical user interface of the user device, the at least one data asset and at least one additional data asset determined to have common characteristics with the at least one data asset selected by the user.

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A computer-implemented method for data governance implementation using a governance graph, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a plurality of data assets from a plurality of data sources;
determining, for each of the plurality of data assets, one or more data asset characteristics that are included in a data profile of each of the plurality of data assets, the one or more data asset characteristics including input or output connections that connect the plurality of data assets to one or more machine learning models;
comparing the input or output connections that connect the plurality of data assets to the one or more machine learning models;
performing, based on the comparing, a data governance procedure to evaluate compliance with an entity's governance policy that defines how the plurality of data assets of the entity are to be interconnected in accordance with decisions rights granted to individuals associated with the entity, the data governance procedure including determining from metadata of the plurality of data assets that multiple data assets of the plurality of data assets have common input or output connections that are similar to one another, the metadata indicating usage in workflows and data fields and the determining from the metadata including inferring from the usage in the workflows and the data fields that the multiple data assets have the common input or output connections;
generating, for the multiple data assets determined to have the common input or output connections, a data governance graph that includes a representation of the common input or output connections between the multiple data assets having common characteristics, the representation including nodes and lines indicating interconnections between the multiple data assets and the machine learning models;
receiving, from a user device, a request to access the generated data governance graph of the multiple data assets determined to have the common input or output connections;
initiating display, via a graphical user interface associated with the user device, of the generated data governance graph;
receiving, from the user device, a user selection of at least one data asset of the multiple data assets determined to have the common input or output connections;
and
in response to receiving the user selection of the at least one data asset of the multiple data assets, initiating display, via the graphical user interface of the user device, the at least one data asset and at least one additional data asset determined to have common characteristics with the at least one data asset selected by the user.

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A computing system, comprising:

at least one processor;
a communication interface communicatively coupled to the at least one processor;
and
a memory device storing executable code that, when executed, causes the processor to:
receive a plurality of data sets from a plurality of sources, the plurality of data sets each having a plurality of input or output connections that connect respective data sets of the plurality of data sets to respective machine learning models;
store the plurality of data sets into a data catalog;
perform a data governance procedure to evaluate compliance with an entity's governance policy that defines how the plurality of data sets of the entity are to be interconnected in accordance with decisions rights granted to individuals associated with the entity, the data governance procedure including determining from metadata of the plurality of data sets that multiple data sets of the plurality of data sets have common input or output connections to the machine learning models that are similar to one another, the metadata indicating usage in workflows and data fields and the determining from the metadata including inferring from the usage in the workflows and the data fields that the multiple data sets have the common input or output connections;
generate, for the multiple data sets determined to have the common input or output connections, a data governance graph that includes a representation of the common input or output connections, the representation including nodes and lines indicating interconnections between the multiple data sets and the machine learning models;
receive, from a user device, a request to access the generated governance graph of the multiple data assets determined to have the common input or output connections;
and
in response to receiving the request to access the generated data governance graph, initiate display, via a graphical user interface associated with the user device, of the generated data governance graph, wherein the generated data governance graph that is displayed includes a node representing a first data set, another node representing a second data set, and a line indicating a connection between the first data set and the second data set.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.