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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
May. 12, 2005
Justin Marston, Richmond, GB;
Andrew Stuart Hatch, Hurworth-on-Tees, GB;
Justin Marston, Richmond, GB;
Andrew Stuart Hatch, Hurworth-on-Tees, GB;
Bluespace Software Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A messaging system enforces compliance policies for the electronic messages. The messaging system treats a set of related messages, such as an email string between two or more people, as a message container () having relational references to one or more submessages (). A messaging server () stores the messages and submessages as discrete message components within a message database (). In addition, the messaging server () stores one or more compliance policies. A compliance policy describes the set of rules that apply to message components during their lifecycles and is defined in terms of a population structure, a set of rules, and a set of jobcodes. When an action occurs that involves a piece of content, the messaging system identifies the relevant compliance policy in the governance policy database () and applies any rules that are applicable given the population structure and jobcode.