Patent ID: 9298895
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A method of managing information comprising: providing an organization comprising a first group and a second group, wherein the organization has an information management system comprising a policy server comprising one or more rules to manage information of the organization; within the first group of the organization, providing a first user and a first application program managed by the information management system; when the first user uses the first application program to connect to a second user to transfer a first component of information, seeking approval from the policy server, the seeking approval from the policy server comprises: determining a first component of information corresponds to an identifier designating the first component of information as confidential includes at least one of accessing contents of the first component of information and detecting a keyword in the contents; or accessing a metadata information associated with the first component of information and detecting a keyword in the metadata information; extracting at least one attribute associated with the first component of information and the identifier, wherein the at least one attribute is used to determine whether to allow access to the first component of information to a user of the information management system, wherein the identifier is an uniform resource identifier associated with the first component of information; based on the at least one attribute, evaluating using the policy server whether to allow access to the first component of information includes: determining whether the first user's use of the first application program to connect to the second user is during a specific time period of the organization, if approved, with the policy enforcer program, permitting the first user to use the first application program to connect to the second user comprises determining the first user's use of the first application program to connect to the second user is not during the specific time period, and if not approved, with the policy enforcer program, blocking the first user from using the first application program to connect to the second user comprises determining the first user's use of the first application program to connect to the second user is during the specific time period.