Patent ID: 9268771
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing at least one document in an electronic document folder stored on a server comprising: assigning a validity indication for a delimited section of text within the document after the document is received, the validity indication indicating a validity expiration time; storing the validity indication; checking the validity indication to determine if the validity expiration time has been reached; running a validity expiration program after the validity expiration time has been reached, the validity expiration program having a deletion routine configured to delete the delimited section of text to which the validity indication is assigned, the validity expiration program also utilizing a querying routine for changing the validity indication, the querying routine configured to be utilized before the deletion routine is executed, the querying routine conveying a query to a recipient of the delimited section of text, the query configured such that a response to the query is configured to change the validity indication to identify a later validity expiration time and then store that changed validity indication; and processing the deletion routing to delete the delimited section of to which the validity indication is assigned from the server after the validity indication time identified by the validity indication expires.