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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2009
Alan 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 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);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (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.