US Patent Application 17867642. PURPOSE-BASED DATA MANAGEMENT FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS simplified abstract

PURPOSE-BASED DATA MANAGEMENT FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Organization Name

SAP SE

Inventor(s)

Carsten Pluder of Spiesen-Elversberg (DE)

Diane Schmidt of Walldorf (DE)

Volker Lehnert of Schriesheim (DE)

Martina Knoedler of Bad Wimpfen (DE)

Thorsten Bruckmeier of Walldorf (DE)

Philipp Alexander Zikesch of Heidelberg (DE)

Bernhard Drittler of Walldorf (DE)

Matthias Vogel of Saarbruecken (DE)

Katrin Ludwig of Sülzetal (DE)

Naved Ahmed of Bangalore (IN)

Saritha Palli of Bangalore (IN)

Shweta Sureshchandra Gupta of Bangalore (IN)

Arun Kumar Gowd of Bangalore (IN)

Dev Karan Ahuja of Bengaluru (IN)

Shwetha H S of Bengaluru (IN)

PURPOSE-BASED DATA MANAGEMENT FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 17867642 titled 'PURPOSE-BASED DATA MANAGEMENT FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Simplified Explanation

- This patent application describes systems and processes for managing access to personal data based on the purpose for storing the data. - The method involves receiving personal data for a data subject and associating one or more purposes to the data. - The purposes are assigned to specific data categories and may include at least one purpose. - The personal data is stored in a data storage system and designated as being associated with the purposes. - Access to the personal data is controlled based on the assigned purposes.

Original Abstract Submitted

Systems and processes for managing access to personal data based on a purpose for storing the personal data are provided. In a method for managing personal data access, personal data for a data subject corresponding to a first data category is received, and an operation is executed in a purpose agent to associate one or more purposes to the personal data, where the one or more purposes are assigned to the first data category and include at least a first purpose. The personal data may be stored in a data storage system, and the stored personal data may be designated as being associated with the one or more purposes. Access to the personal data may be controlled based on the one or more purposes.