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Google patents privacy checker that auto-fixes server data rules

Patent drawing
Patent drawing from the official filing.

This patent describes a system that monitors cloud servers to ensure they follow specific data privacy laws. It uses software agents to check server settings against regional rules and automatically creates new, compliant servers if a problem is found.

Why it mattersIt helps large companies automatically keep their cloud data in line with different privacy laws in different countries.

In the filing’s own words

Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an example method including receiving, from privacy agents deployed by an agent deployment engine, system metric data. The system metric data can include signals associated with compute resources based on settings or functions of a respective compute resource of the compute resources. The method can include generating a risk profile by comparing the received system metric data to current privacy state requirements. The method can include, based on the risk profile, performing an action such as (i) updating a user interface to display a notification relating to the risk profile or (ii) generating and initiating a configuration file to adjust compute resource settings.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computing system, the computing system comprising: one or more processors; and one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that are executable to cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising: deploying a plurality of privacy agents including at least a first privacy agent and a second privacy agent; receiving, from the plurality of privacy agents, system metric data comprising compute metrics associated with a plurality of compute resources comprising at least a first compute resource located in a first geographic region and a second compute resource located in a second geographic region, wherein the compute metrics are based on at least one of settings and functions of the first compute resource and the second compute resource; comparing the system metric data to current privacy state requirements that are based on organizational privacy settings, wherein the current privacy state requirements comprise a first set of requirements associated with the first geographic region and a second set of requirements associated with the second geographic region; generating a real-time risk profile for the computing system by comparing the system metric data to the current privacy state requirements to determine that at least the first compute resource is not in compliance with the first set of requirements; based on the real-time risk profile, generating a configuration file to spin up a new compute resource that is in compliance with the current privacy state requirements; and executing the configuration file to spin up the new compute resource to maintain compliance with the current privacy state requirements.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
Privacy choreographer for fully managed serverless application platforms
Patent number
US12748881B2
Application number
18584414
Filed
Feb 22, 2024
Granted
Sep 29, 2026
Inventors
6
Claims
15

Classified under

G06F 21/6227 Physics & computingG06F 21/6263 Physics & computing

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