Ownership assignment for a communication system component

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11494469-B2
Application number	US-202016861704-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 29, 2020
Priority date	Apr 29, 2020
Publication date	Nov 8, 2022
Grant date	Nov 8, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to assigning an ownership of a first component of a communication system. A processor may identify a second component of the communication system having a relationship to the first component. The processor may identify an owning entity of the second component, the owning entity may have ownership of the second component, and the communication system may include the owning entity. The processor may generate an owner information, the owner information may relate the owning entity of the second component to the first component. The processor may provide the owner information to the communication system. In response to the providing of the owner information, the processor may receive a command for assigning the ownership of the first component to the owning entity. In response to receiving the command, the processor may assign the ownership of the first component to the owning entity.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method for assigning an ownership of a first component of a communication system, the method comprising:
identifying, by a processor, a second component of the communication system having a relationship to the first component;
identifying an owning entity of the second component, the owning entity having ownership of the second component, and the communication system including the owning entity;
generating a search string comprising information to describe a first data element related to the first component;
comparing the search string with terms of a nomenclature assigned to the first data element;
determining relationships between components in the system including the first and second components and the owning entity;
determining when the components in the system, including the first component, have a relationship to the owning entity;
generating an owner information, the owner information relating the owning entity of the second component to the first component;
providing the owner information to the communication system;
receiving a command for assigning the ownership of the first component to the owning entity in response to providing the owner information; and
assigning the ownership of the first component to the owning entity in response to receiving the command.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first component is a data element and the second component is a governance element, the first component being assigned to the governance element and the governance element influencing a scope of data processing of the first component.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first component is a governance element and the second component is a data element, the second component being assigned to the governance element and the governance element influencing a scope of data processing of the second component.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the governance element comprises a term, the term describing the data element.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the governance element comprises a governance rule, the governance rule specifying a processing of the data element in the communication system.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating the owner information based on a record of a usage of the first component, the record of the usage of the first component comprising information about the usage of the first component with respect to the second component.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second component is a machine learning module, the relationship of the second component to the first component being in the form of the first component being processed to develop the machine learning module.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second component is a software development architecture, the relationship of the second component to the first component being in the form of the first component being processed by the software development architecture.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second component is an application module of the communication system, the relationship of the second component to the first component being in the form of the first component being processed by the application module.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second component is a data representation element, the relationship of the second component to the first component being in the form of the data representation element comprising the first component.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a quantity of usage of the first component in the communication system; and
generating the owner information based on the quantity of the usage of the first component.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating the owner information based on a type of the relationship between the first component and the second component.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communication system comprises a hierarchy with at least a first lower level and a second upper level, the first component being assigned to the first lower level and the second component being assigned to the second upper level, wherein information about the hierarchy is used to identify the second component.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating the owner information based on a search history comprising searches for the first component and/or the second component.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein a scope of the rights to change the first component is adapted to a scope of the relationship of the second component to the second component.

16. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
identifying a second component of the communication system having a relationship to the first component;
identifying an owning entity of the second component, the owning entity having ownership of the second component, and the communication system including the owning entity;
generating a search string comprising information to describe a first data element related to the first component;
comparing the search string with terms of a nomenclature assigned to the first data element;
determining relationships between components in the system including the first and second components and the owning entity;
determining when the components in the system, including the first component, have a relationship to the owning entity;
generating an owner information, the owner information relating the owning entity of the second component to the first component;
providing the owner information to the communication system;
receiving a command for assigning the ownership of the first component to the owning entity in response to providing the owner information; and
assigning the ownership of the first component to the owning entity in response to receiving the command.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the first component is a data element and the second component is a governance element, the first component being assigned to the governance element and the governance element influencing a scope of data processing of the first component.

18. A system comprising:
a memory; and
a processor in communication with the memory, the processor being configured to perform operations comprising:
identifying a second component of the communication system having a relationship to the first component;
identifying an owning entity of the second component, the owning entity having ownership of the second component, and the communication system including the owning entity;
generating a search string comprising information to describe a first data element related to the first component;
comparing the search string with terms of a nomenclature assigned to the first data element;
determining relationships between components in the system including the first and second components and the owning entity;
determining when the components in the system, including the first component, have a relationship to the owning entity;
generating an owner information, the owner information relating the owning entity of the second component to the first component;
providing the owner information to the communication system;
receiving a command for assigning the ownership of the first component to the owning entity in response to providing the owner information; and
assigning the ownership of the first component

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Maier Albert
• Schwarz Thomas
• Gerstl Peter
• Suhre Oliver

Classifications

• G06F21/604 Primary

  Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems · CPC title

• G06N3/084

  Backpropagation, e.g. using gradient descent · CPC title

• G06F21/31 Primary

  User authentication · CPC title

• G06N20/00

  Machine learning · CPC title