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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2023
Stripe, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Drapeau, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Bullen, Alameda, CA (US);
Stripe, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for hard deletion of user data are described. The method may include receiving a request from a user computer system to delete user data. The method may also include determining a unique user identifier associated by a system with a user making the request. The method may also include determining whether a data partition, in which data generated by a job or subsystem of the computer system is stored, is predicted to contain a record having the unique user identifier. Then, the method may include searching, when the data partition is predicted to contain a record having the unique user identifier, data records stored in the data partition for a user data record based on the unique identifier, and performing a hard deletion of the user data record from the partition when found during the searching.