{"id":"syn-2026-002","slug":"privacy-preserving-supplier-risk-map-2026","status":"published_public_domain","synthetic":true,"title":"Privacy-preserving supplier risk map with coarse disclosure tiers","abstract":"A supply-chain risk map emits coarse public risk tiers while keeping supplier contracts, volumes, and names in a private workspace.","cpc":"G06Q 10/0635","publishedAt":"2026-05-02T12:10:00.000Z","authors":["Synthetic Depatent Research Desk"],"anonymous":false,"license":"CC0-1.0","keywords":["supply chain","privacy","risk scoring","compliance"],"enablement":["Normalizes supplier evidence into private weighted factors.","Maps private scores into coarse public tiers with k-anonymity thresholds.","Publishes only tier, sector, geography band, and evidence category."],"claimsBlocked":["Public risk-tier publication derived from private supplier facts with k-anonymity.","Separating supplier identity from published sector-level risk disclosures.","Using disclosure tiers as public prior art while retaining confidential contracts."],"proofs":[{"kind":"doi","label":"DOI","value":"10.5072/depatent.syn-2026-002","href":"https://doi.org/10.5072/depatent.syn-2026-002","status":"simulated"},{"kind":"archive","label":"Wayback capture","value":"Queued for capture","status":"queued"},{"kind":"indexnow","label":"IndexNow","value":"submitted","status":"simulated"}],"body":["The method ingests supplier documents, audit notes, sanctions checks, incident records, and country risk data into a private assessment workspace.","Each supplier receives private factor scores. Before any public output is produced, the system aggregates suppliers into sector and geography bands that satisfy a minimum cohort size.","The public record contains a tier, evidence category, and time window. It does not contain supplier names, exact volumes, contract values, or uniquely identifying incidents.","This allows a technical approach to risk-tier publication to be defensively disclosed without leaking the confidential procurement data used by an organization."],"publication_url":"https://depatent.com/p/privacy-preserving-supplier-risk-map-2026","type":"DefensivePublication"}