Patent ID: 11860904
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A computer system for governing a set of information assets, the computer system comprising:
one or more computer processors;
one or more computer readable storage media; and
program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to program instructions to identify 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;
program instructions to determine a set of high-level classes comprising one or more default high-level classes;
program instructions to determine 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;
program instructions to determine 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
program instructions to apply 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.