Information processing apparatus, information processing system and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018032754-A1
Application number	US-201715630995-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 23, 2017
Priority date	Jul 26, 2016
Publication date	Feb 1, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A memory stores common identification information that is shared between a plurality of information provision institutions for identifying a person. A processor assigns the common identification information to personal information transferred to a storage device from a plurality of operation databases respectively of the plurality of information provision institutions. Then, the processor generates confidentialized personal information by confidentializing the personal information to which the common identification information has been assigned.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An information processing apparatus comprising:
a memory that stores common identification information shared between a plurality of information provision institutions for identifying a person; a processor that is coupled to the memory, that assigns the common identification information to personal information transferred to a storage device from a plurality of operation databases respectively of the plurality of information provision institutions, and that generates confidentialized personal information by confidentializing the personal information to which the common identification information has been assigned.

2 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the memory stores a correspondence relationship that associates personal identification information included in the personal information and the common identification information, and the processor assigns to the personal information the common identification information associated with the personal identification information through the correspondence relationship, and confidentializes the personal identification information included in the personal information.

3 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the storage device stores confidentializing item information that specifies an item as a confidentializing target from among a plurality of items included in the personal information, and the processor confidentializes information of the item as the confidentializing target specified by the confidentializing item information.

4 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the confidentializing item information specifies a first item as a target of a process of simplifying information and a second item as a target of a process of conversion into data indicating that information has been confidentialized, and the processor simplifies information of the first item included in the personal information and converts information of the second item included in the personal information into the data indicating that information has been confidentialized.

5 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising
a communication interface that transfers the confidentialized personal information to a collection storage device that is used by an information analysis institution, wherein the processor performs a first process of generating a plurality of pieces of confidentialized personal information respectively from a plurality of pieces of personal information in accordance with a request from each of the plurality of information provision institutions, and performs a second process of generating a plurality of pieces of confidentialized personal information respectively from a plurality of pieces of personal information in accordance with a request from the information analysis institutions.

6 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein
the processor interrupts the first process and starts the second process when the request is received from the information analysis institution after generating the confidentialized personal information from a specific piece of personal information from among the plurality of pieces of personal information in the first process, and restarts the first process from a next piece of the personal information following the specific piece of the personal information after completing the second process.

7 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor converts a data format of the personal information that is transferred from the plurality of operation databases into a uniform data format, and generates the confidentialized personal information from personal information in the uniform data format when the plurality of operation databases use different data formats for personal information.

8 . An information processing system comprising:
a storage device that stores personal information that is transferred from a plurality of operation databases respectively of a plurality of information provision institutions; and an information processing apparatus that assigns common identification information to the personal information stored in the storage device, the common identification information being shared between the plurality of information provision institutions for identifying a person, and that generates confidentialized personal information by confidentializing the personal information to which the common identification information has been assigned, the common identification information being shared between the plurality of information provision institutions for identifying a person.

9 . A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:
assigning common identification information to personal information transferred to a storage device from a plurality of operation databases respectively of a plurality of information provision institutions, the common identification information being shared between the plurality of information provision institutions for identifying a person; and generating confidentialized personal information by confidentializing the personal information to which the common identification information has been assigned.

10 . The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9 , wherein
the computer stores a correspondence relationship that associates personal identification information included in the personal information and the common identification information, the assigning the common identification information assigns to the personal information the common identification information associated with the personal identification information through the correspondence relationship, and the generating the confidentialized personal information confidentializes the personal identification information included in the personal information.

11 . The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9 , wherein
the storage device stores confidentializing item information that specifies an item as a confidentializing target from among a plurality of items included in the personal information, and the generating the confidentialized personal information confidentializes information of the item as the confidentializing target specified by the confidentializing item information.

12 . An information processing apparatus comprising:
a memory; a communication interface that is coupled to the memory and that receives common identification information from an identification information management device, the common identification information being shared between a plurality of information provision institutions for identifying a person; and a processor that is coupled to the memory and that sets the common identification information for personal information transferred to a storage device from a plurality of operation databases respectively of the plurality of information provision institutions, and that generates confidentialized personal information by confidentializing the personal information for which the common identification information has been set.

13 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein
the identification information management device stores a correspondence relationship that associates personal identification information included in the personal information and the common identification information, and assigns to the personal information the common identification informati

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Shimada Yuri
• Kobashi Kazunori
• Yamazaki Akito
• Yoshida Akimasa
• Katayama Hiroyuki

Classifications

• G06F21/31 Primary

  User authentication · CPC title

• G06F21/6245 Primary

  Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes · CPC title

• G06F21/6254

  by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification · CPC title

• G16H10/60

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• G06F19/322

  Physics · mapped topic