US Patent 10152522 Globally distributed compliance enforcement

A method and system for requesting a first data, including receiving from a first requestor a first query request to read the first data located in a first geographic location, where the first requestor is located in a second geographic location. The method further includes executing the first query request by a query engine in the first geographic location to obtain a first query result, obtaining a first compliance rule based on at least one of the first geographic location, the second geographic location, generating an exportable result by applying the first compliance rule to the first query result, and transmitting the first exportable result to the first requestor.