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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2006
Alan L. Stuart, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Toby Lyn Marek, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Avishai Haim Hochberg, San Jose, CA (US);
David Maxwell Cannon, Tucson, AZ (US);
Howard Newton Martin, Vail, AZ (US);
Alan L. Stuart, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Toby Lyn Marek, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Avishai Haim Hochberg, San Jose, CA (US);
David Maxwell Cannon, Tucson, AZ (US);
Howard Newton Martin, Vail, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and program for receiving a request to remove a record. A determination is made as to whether a state associated with the record includes at least one hold state and whether the state associated with the record includes at least a retention period that has not expired. The request to remove the record is denied in response to determining that the state associated with the record includes at least one of at least one hold state and one retention period that has not expired.