Patent Document ID: 7860816
Application ID: 11931601

Base Claim:
1. A method for testing a sub-ontology for safeness, the sub-ontology comprising one or more elements of a given ontology operated on by a general purpose computing device that performs automatic reasoning, the elements comprising one or more individuals that represent at least one person or object, one or more relationships defined between the one or more individuals, and one or more pieces of metadata representing at least one characteristic of the one or more individuals and the one or more relationships, the method comprising: defining a first subset of the one or more relationships, the first subset comprising all sensitive relationships in the given ontology; defining a second subset of the one or more relationships, the second subset comprising the sub-ontology; and determining, by a processor of the general purpose computing device, whether any relationship in the first subset can be inferred from any relationship in the second subset, given one or more inference rules.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second subset is defined by an external source.