US 11,860,904 B2
Determining and propagating high level classifications
Oliver Suhre, Stuttgart (DE); Albert Maier, Tuebingen (DE); Peter Gerstl, Holzgerlingen (DE); Thomas Schwarz, Stuttgart (DE); and Michael Baessler, Bempflingen (DE)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/108,554.
Prior Publication US 2022/0171793 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/285 (2019.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for governing a set of information assets, the method comprising:
identifying, by one or more processors, a set of information assets being an at least partially ordered set forming a first containment hierarchy, information assets of the set of information assets being provided with information asset type identifiers and at least some of the information assets being provided with low-level classification assignments to low-level classes;
determining, by one or more processors, a set of high-level classes comprising one or more default high-level classes;
determining, by one or more processors, a set of high-level classification assignment rules for assigning the information assets of the set of information assets to the one or more default high-level classes of the set of high-level classes using the information asset type identifiers and the low-level classification assignments of the respective information assets;
determining, by one or more processors, a set of one or more high-level classification propagation rules for propagating the high-level classification assignments of one or more information assets of the set of information assets, which are subordinate to one or more superordinate information assets of the set of information assets, to the one or more superordinate information assets; and
applying, by one or more processes, one or more high-level classification assignment rules of the set of high-level classification assignment rules to one or more information assets of the set of information assets using the information asset type identifiers and the low-level classification assignments of the respective one or more information assets as input to provide one or more high-level classification assignments of the respective one or more information assets to one or more of the one or more default high-level classes of the set of high-level classes as output, wherein the one or more high-level classification assignment rules assign the one or more information assets to the one or more default high-level classes based on the information asset type identifiers and the low-level classification assignments.