US Patent 11775681 Enforcement flow for pipelines that include entitlements

Embodiments are directed to techniques for enforcing entitlements used by data privacy pipelines. When a data consumer requests to trigger a pipeline that relies on an entitlement, an enforcement mechanism may operate to verify the data consumer's triggering of the pipeline will satisfy the entitlements. A rules engine may access all root entities of the pipeline that require an entitlement, load all contracts and/or corresponding pipelines that reference one of the root entities, and search for one valid access path through the loaded contracts/pipelines. If multiple contracts and/or multiple access paths allow access to a particular root entity, various conflict rules may be configured to choose which contract and access path to use. If all root entities have a valid access path, the constrained environment may execute the requested pipeline using the identified access path for each root entity.