Patent 11574072 was granted and assigned to Snowflake on February, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A shared database platform implements dynamic masking on data shared between users where specific data is masked, transformed, or otherwise modified based on preconfigured functions that are associated with user roles. The shared database platform can implement the masking at runtime dynamically in response to users requesting access to a database object that is associated with one or more masking policies.