Patent ID: 8875227
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented process for privacy aware authenticated map-reduce processing, the computer-implemented process comprising: a processor unit receiving data for a MapReduce operation to form received data; determining, by the processor unit, the received data is signed using at least one of a set of services including a signing/signature redaction service, an integrity verification service and a completeness verification service, wherein a signature associated with the received data is a homomorphic signature; identifying, by the processor unit, a control point in a set of control points of the MapReduce operation to form an identified control point wherein the control point is a stage in a sequence of stages comprising the MapReduce operation; identifying, by the processor unit, an applicable set of policies for the identified control point to form a selected set of policies wherein the selected set of policies include privacy information and sensitivity information including levels of sensitivity associated with the received data; applying, by the processor unit, the selected set of policies at the identified control point; determining, by the processor unit, whether application of the selected set of policies at the identified control point returned a positive result; and responsive to a determination, by the processor unit, that application of the selected set of policies at the identified control point returned a positive result, continuing, by the processor unit, operation to a next stage in the MapReduce operation.