US 11,853,452 B2
Keeping databases compliant with data protection regulations by sensing the presence of sensitive data and transferring the data to compliant geographies
Lucas Correia Villa Real, Sao Paulo (BR); Rogerio Cesar Barbosa dos Santos da Silva Silva, Sao Paulo (BR); Claudio Bandeira Dutra, São Paulo (BR); and Raphael Guedes Amorim, São Paulo (BR)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/519,901.
Prior Publication US 2023/0142102 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 16/25 (2019.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/6227 (2013.01) [G06F 16/258 (2019.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a request comprising information, the request being intended for processing on a local database;
using a model to process the information of the request;
wherein a regulation code is associated with the request, the model being configured to use the regulation code to determine that the information relates to sensitive data;
responsive to the model determining that the information relates to the sensitive data, transferring the request to a remote database associated with a geography meeting a requirement for the sensitive data in order to execute the request;
selecting the remote database associated with the geography meeting the requirement of the regulation code; and
responsive to transferring the request to the remote database and receiving a remote row identification associated with one or more rows of the remote database, creating a local row in the local database that contains the remote row identification for the sensitive data.