ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,304, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Purpose-based processing by purpose-action association" was invented by Benny Rolle (Reinhardshagen, Germany), Stefan Hesse (Dresden, Germany), Matthias Vogel (Saarbrucken, Germany) and Carsten Pluder (Spiesen-Elversberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for data privacy protocols. One example method includes receiving information defining a purpose for processing personal data of a data category stored in an object. A first mapping is received of a processing action to the p...