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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2004
Applicants:

Christopher Hercules Claudatos, San Jose, CA (US);

William Dale Andruss, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Richard Urmston, Westborough, MA (US);

Mark Rambacher, Littleton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Hercules Claudatos, San Jose, CA (US);

William Dale Andruss, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Richard Urmston, Westborough, MA (US);

Mark Rambacher, Littleton, MA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing an object are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises managing an object having content, in a system having a dynamic policy selector configured with at least one analytic policy applied to evaluate the content of the object. The object is associated to an information management policy. Classification levels may be used, in which classification levels are associated to information management policies and objects are associated with classification levels. Objects containing certain elements or related elements may be associated to form an information group, to which information management policies may be applied as a group. Storage pools may be used for managing objects with similar classification levels or information protection policies.


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