{
  "patent_number": "US 12112345",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Software Automatically Filters Employee Survey Results Based on Management Roles",
  "original_title": "Systems and methods facilitating survey completion and review",
  "summary": "A system that automatically restricts who can see specific employee survey results by mapping organizational reporting lines through a digital object graph.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a system for managing employee surveys in large organizations where managers need to see feedback from their direct reports without seeing everyone else's data. It uses an object graph—a database structure that maps relationships between employees—to automatically determine which survey responses a manager (the delegate) is allowed to view. When a manager requests survey data, the system traverses this graph to identify their specific constituents and filters out all other responses. It also includes an automated trigger that can initiate workflows, such as sending an alert, if a specific type of survey response is detected.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover manual filtering of survey data by human administrators.",
    "Does not cover systems that lack a defined object graph for mapping organizational roles.",
    "Does not cover survey systems that provide raw, unfiltered data to all authorized users.",
    "Does not cover non-organizational survey contexts like public opinion polling."
  ],
  "filed": "2022-05-13",
  "granted": "2024-10-08",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "People Center Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/people-center-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Vahid Fazel-Rezai",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/vahid-fazel-rezai"
    },
    {
      "name": "Paras Rajesh Bheda",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/paras-rajesh-bheda"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cassandra Jia Hui Lim",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/cassandra-jia-hui-lim"
    },
    {
      "name": "Katherine Ifeoma Okpara",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/katherine-ifeoma-okpara"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "software",
    "ai_ml",
    "ecommerce"
  ],
  "abstract": "Methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media facilitating dynamic restriction of a viewer's access to survey responses provided by respondents of a survey based on the viewer's relationship with each respondent. In an example embodiment, the disclosed technology can: generate a survey data object that specifies a set of participants and a set of delegates associated with a survey; define, for a delegate in the set of delegates, a data access rule that specifies a subset of participants in the set of participants that are constituents of the delegate; receive, from the delegate, a request to access survey response data; evaluate the data access rule to identify the constituents of the delegate; filter the survey response data to extract constituent response data corresponding to the constituents of the delegate; and/or return the constituent response data to the delegate.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12112345/starship-production-line",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12112345/starship-production-line/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12112345",
  "relatedPatents": []
}