Patent ID: 9323949
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method of de-identifying data from a data source for a target application, the method comprising: generating, via a hardware processor, a default rule set including at least one rule, the default rule set including a default de-identification protocol to produce de-identified data from an Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) tool, wherein the default de-identification protocol is selected based on business rules; mapping, via a hardware processor, the default rule set to data definitions each generated by a discovery tool and associated with a corresponding sensitive data element identified in the data; specifying, via a hardware processor, a runtime rule set comprising at least one runtime rule, the runtime rule including a runtime de-identification protocol to produce de-identified data from the ETL tool, wherein the runtime rule set is specified via an interface; replacing, via a hardware processor, the default rule set with the runtime rule set to change the default de-identification protocol to the runtime de-identification protocol at runtime to accommodate changing de-identification requirements of a target environment, and mapping the runtime rule set to the data definitions, wherein receiving, via a hardware processor, the data and the data definitions, and for each data definition: