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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Kannan Dhanasekaran, Redmond, WA (US);
Tho Van Nguyen, Kenmore, WA (US);
Le-Wu Tung, Redmond, WA (US);
Nakul Garg, Sammamish, WA (US);
Mingquan Xue, Redmond, WA (US);
Gagandeep Kohli, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dheepak Ramaswamy, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A unified document retention management system exposes a retention policy management portal to enable a user to selectively prescribe a unified retention policy to multiple productivity platforms to deploy the unified retention policy across the user selected productivity platforms. Data retention rules of the unified retention policy may define actions to be performed with respect to files that satisfy certain predefined conditions. An exemplary data retention rule prescribes a retention age threshold to files that have been tagged with a particular label. Files may be manually labeled by users and/or may be automatically labeled by the system in accordance with one or more smart label rules. The retention age threshold may be enforced for such tagged files by preventing the files from being deleted and/or modified prior to them reaching the retention age threshold. Then the files may automatically be purged from system storage upon reaching the retention age threshold.