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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 21, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Paul R. Bastide, Ashland, MA (US);

Shakil Manzoor Khan, Highland Mills, NY (US);

Senthil Bakthavachalam, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2143 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the invention include receiving a data erasure request associated with a user and identifying, based at least in part on the data erasure request, an entity associated with the user and one or more identifiers for the user. Aspects also include identifying, based at least in part on the one or more identifiers for the user, a cohort that includes the user and comparing the one or more identifiers for the user to identifiers of a plurality of users that are not members of the cohort. Aspects further include identifying a replacement user from the plurality of users based on the comparison and replacing the entity associated with the user in the cohort with an entity associated with the replacement user.


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