US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Feb. 11 for "Data access control method, data access control apparatus, and data access control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,030, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Data access control method, data access control apparatus, and data access control program" was invented by Kentaro Kakui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy determination unit acquires a rule for a request for accessing data based on a preset access control policy, and selects whether to acquire attribute information about an attribute of each record of the data from the outside of a database in which the data is stored. As a result, when selecting acquisition of the attribute information, the attribute information is acquired and the rule based on the attribu...