US 9,959,273 B2Granted

Enterprise-level data protection with variable data granularity and data disclosure control with hierarchical summarization, topical structuring, and traversal audit

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsLawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu

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Abstract

Access is obtained to a plurality of intermediately transformed electronic documents (with a plurality of sections and subsections) which have been transformed, by topical analysis and text summarization techniques, from a plurality of original electronic documents comprising at least some unstructured electronic documents. Audit and retrieval agent code is appended to the sections and subsections to create a plurality of finally transformed electronic documents. Users are allowed to access the finally transformed electronic documents. The users are provided with accountability reminders contemporaneous with the access. The access of the users to the sections and subsections of the finally transformed electronic documents is logged. An audit report is provided based on the logging. Also provided is a cloud service for enterprise-level sensitive data protection with variable data granularity, using one or more one guest virtual machine images.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

decomposing, by topical analysis and text summarization techniques, a plurality of original electronic documents comprising at least some unstructured electronic documents into a plurality of intermediately transformed electronic documents, each of said intermediately transformed electronic documents having a plurality of hierarchical sections, wherein said plurality of hierarchical sections are arranged in different levels having different levels of abstraction;
appending an audit and retrieval agent code and an accountability reminder, to each different one of said hierarchical sections to create a plurality of finally transformed electronic documents;
providing, to a user, access to said hierarchical sections of at least one document of said finally transformed electronic documents through a data viewer;
providing, using said data viewer, said user with said accountability reminders contemporaneous with each attempt at said access to each deeper, less abstract, level of respective said hierarchical sections within said at least one document, wherein each of said accountability reminders provided to said user corresponds to each of said attempts at said access to each said deeper level of said hierarchical sections;
logging said access of said user to said hierarchical sections of said at least one document of said finally transformed electronic documents;
and
providing an audit report based on said logging of said access of said user.

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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, said computer readable program code comprising:

computer readable program code configured to decompose, by topical analysis and text summarization techniques, a plurality of original electronic documents comprising at least some unstructured electronic documents into a plurality of intermediately transformed electronic documents, each of said intermediately transformed electronic documents having a plurality of hierarchical sections, wherein said plurality of hierarchical sections are arranged in different levels having different levels of abstraction;
computer readable program code configured to append an audit and retrieval agent code and an accountability reminder, to each different one of said hierarchical sections to create a plurality of finally transformed electronic documents;
computer readable program code configured to provide, to a user, access to said hierarchical sections of at least one document of said finally transformed electronic documents through a data viewer;
computer readable program code configured to provide, using said data viewer, said user with said accountability reminders contemporaneous with each attempt at said access to each deeper, less abstract, level of respective said hierarchical sections within said at least one document, wherein each of said accountability reminders provided to said user corresponds to each of said attempts at said access to each said deeper level of said hierarchical sections;
computer readable program code configured to log said access of said user to said hierarchical sections of said at least one document of said finally transformed electronic documents;
and
computer readable program code configured to provide an audit report based on said logging of said access of said user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/457,250Filed 26 Apr 2012
Published: US 2013/0291127 A131 Oct 2013
Granted: 1 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 16/00
Information retrieval
G06F 16/215
Design, administration or maintenance of databases: improving data quality; Data cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or…
G06F 21/552
Detecting local intrusion or implementing counter-measures: involving long-term monitoring or reporting
H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network