US 12,105,854 B2
Data intermediary system and data intermediary method
Bandara Syafril, Tokyo (JP); Mitsuhiro Kitani, Tokyo (JP); and Satoshi Iimuro, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI, LTD.
Filed by Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,799.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-039944 (JP), filed on Mar. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0292215 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/645 (2013.01) [G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06F 21/6272 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data intermediary system comprising:
a processor; and
a storage unit configured to store, for a plurality of services used by a user in the past, provision situation information indicating a provision situation of data for each item of the data provided to a provider that provides the service in order to use the service for the user, wherein
the processor is configured to
acquire information indicating an item of data requested, by the provider that provides a service requested to be used by the user, to be provided by the user,
acquire the provision situation of data of the same item as the item of the data requested, by the provider that provides the requested service, to be provided by the user,
determine that an item of the data whose provision situation satisfies a predetermined condition is provided to the provider that provides the requested service, and
control distribution of the data to the provider that provides the requested service from a provider that holds the data of the item determined to be provided,
the provision situation information includes a provision rate for each item of the data, which is a ratio of the number of services for which the item of the data is provided by the user with respect to the number of services for which the item of the data is requested,
the predetermined condition is that the provision rate exceeds a predetermined reference value,
the provision situation information includes the provision rate for each set of the item of the data and at least one of a use purpose of the data, a use condition of the data, a storage period of the data, and an involvement condition of the user on the data,
the information indicating the item of the data requested to be provided by the user to the provider that provides the requested service is included in terms of service of the requested service,
the terms of service of the requested service include information indicating at least one of the use purpose of the data, the use condition of the data, the storage period of the data, and the involvement condition of the user on the data, corresponding to the item of the data, and
the processor is configured to compare the provision rate that is from the provision state information and corresponds to the set of the item of the data and at least one of the use purpose of the data, the use condition of the data, the storage period of the data, and the involvement condition of the user on the data included in the terms of service of the requested service with the predetermined reference value.