Patent ID: 9396351
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of managing information comprising: providing an organization, wherein the organization has an information management system comprising a policy server comprising one or more rules to manage information of the organization; providing a first user of the organization and a first document managed by the information management system; when the first user attempts to access the first document at a first computer, seeking approval from the policy server by evaluating a first rule of the one or more rules to manage information, wherein the first rule is created before the first document and the first rule comprises a first conditional statement and a first abstraction component, the first abstraction component stored separately from the first rule at a second computer different than the first computer and the first abstraction component comprises a second conditional statement, and wherein evaluating the first rule comprises: retrieving the first abstraction component stored at the second computer and its associated second conditional statement, stored separately from the first rule; determining a first result for the first conditional statement associated with the first rule to determine whether to allow access to the first document; determining a second result for the second conditional statement associated with the first abstraction component to determine whether to allow access to the first document; and determining a third result of the evaluated first rule based on the first result associated with the first conditional statement and the second result associated with the second conditional statement; if the third result evaluates to a Boolean true, permitting the first user to access the first document; and if the third results evaluates to a Boolean false, blocking the first user from accessing the first document.